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The prosperous Georgian feel of the town originates with the presence of the castle and with its role as a market town and agricultural centre.

The imposing 18th-century building on the right with the round-headed doorway has a twin nearly opposite.

Half a mile south of the hamlet with the parish church and Chiddingly Place is another small hamlet, Muddles Green, where cottages fringe a small green.

One of the earliest buildings in the Albert Park estate was the Grammar School, fronting the Cresent east of the park.

In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

A Dimond had already traded on the High Street for some 80 years when this photograph was taken, and Dimond's (left) are happily still in business, though the shop front has changed slightly

Situated on the main coast road, this public house is extremely convenient for tourists and the villagers.

Brampton Park covers about 100 acres and in 1898 it was the property of the Duke of Manchester. There had been a grand house on the site since the 12th century.

To the west of Jervaulx lies this pretty village, nestling around the spacious green.

This is a view along East Street to the former Market Place, from the Greyhound Hotel (left) which faces the wonderfully elaborate Georgian shop-front of Beach and Company.

Next-door, the International Tea Company`s Stores Limited has re-branded itself as the International Stores, and would remain a major grocery chain until the coming of purpose-built supermarkets

According to local legend this was created at the order of the Prince Regent, who used the London to Brighton road to travel to his Pavilion by the sea at Brighton.

This view is taken looking north- west along Benyon Road towards the junction of Pound Street and Carshalton Road. The high brick wall in the distance belongs to Carshalton House.

Few national brands were to be seen on the main street, apart from Lipton's grocery and the Westminster Bank visible in this photograph; the remainder are locally owned and managed businesses.

Situated on the river Sence to the south of the town, the mill was first recorded around the mid 12th century, and by the early 17th century a windmill had also been built a little to its north.

This view of the caravan site shows it before extensive development had taken place. Sully Island in the background has been the scene of many ships being driven ashore by gale-force winds.

The Bridge Inn is named after Victoria Bridge, built to span a tidal creek that ran across the line of Bolton Road; the bridge thus linked Bolton Road to the New Chester Road (the creek was eventually

Almost opposite Foresters Cottages is the headquarters of the Veteran Car Club of Great Britain, and members' cars often visit the village.

Newnham Parade, built in the early 1960s on the site of the old Triangle Cafe (which had been demolished in 1960), was a favourite meeting place for locals and travellers from London to Ware.

Over Easter 1934, there was an epidemic of influenza, measles and chicken pox.

While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late

The mid 19th-century houses are fairly run-of-the-mill, but had the cameraman turned round he could have photographed a fairly new arrival on the Hill.

The Plaiting School in the village employed village ladies and children who supplemented the low agricultural wages by weaving strips of straw, called plait, to the hat-making trade in Luton.