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This photo shows the stereotypical municipal park with its formal gardens, water features and children's playground. There are also sports facilities and a bandstand.

This is how the River Avon looked just north of the city centre in 1923, forty years before the water meadows on the left were turned into the huge Central Car Park.

The Royal Pier, at the eastern end of Mayflower Park, was opened in 1833 and for many years was the largest in the south of England.

The 5th Company of the London Brigade was based in Gadebridge Park, with its headquarters in the Town Hall.

Perhaps they want the fresh bread that is just being delivered from the van parked outside.

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

Timber from the extensive woodland surrounding Fernhurst provided fuel for the nearby ironworks at North Park during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Electricity has played a great part in transport in Ipswich throughout the first half of the 20th century, first with trams, and then with the trolley buses.

Note the absence of road markings and the apparently low volume of traffic that enables motorists to park on the bridge itself. Picton Place is named after the Picton family, referred to later.

Once used as the site of Bury Fair, even by 1955 it had been relegated to a car park. The Angel Hotel which gave its name to the square was immortalised by Charles Dickens in 'The Pickwick Papers'.

This site looks almost deserted, except for a Volkswagen parked by one of the caravans and a few cows grazing in the field behind.

Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England.The Grange later became a children's hospital.

Along with Woodhouse Moor to the north, the park was considered the chief lung of the city, where for a few hours at the weekend factory workers had an opportunity to get away from the dust

A pre-war motorcar of much character is parked outside 63 Manor Way on the corner of Chipstead Way, whilst a modern delivery van runs downhill towards Rectory Lane.

The scene here is not changed greatly today, although there are many more parked cars which line the road and the trees have grown.

Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.

A rustic bridge spans an ornamental lake in this picturesque park.

Sir Henry Thompson, son of a vice admiral and curate of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, helped to found Holy Trinity Church in West Street, as well as church schools in Park Lane and Fontley

Thatched cottages are comparatively rare in this part of Derbyshire; to see Baslow's examples, you have to follow the signposted path for Chatsworth, which starts at the car park.

Car parking was allowed at this time. The Rochdale Observer office on the left still had its old clock, which has since been replaced.

The Regent petrol station has been swept away to make more room for the Top o'Town car park.

The path extends south right to the recreation park, and to the north, by crossing the bridge to the right hand bank, into the area known as Scot's Garden at the foot of Castle Hill.

Here engine No 12501 steams along the front, past the town's park, where the conical-roofed bandstand is prominent.

This view of the main street of Hawes looks towards the Market Place, where cars and buses are parked haphazardly on the cobbles.