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The Riverside, which opened in May 1960, was one of many holiday parks established during that era, providing both a place to stay and facilities and amusements to create a complete holiday atmosphere

Here we see a busy day in the Market Place with charabancs and cars parked outside the magnificent Abbey Gateway, which was built in 1338.

This is one of the unmade roads to the west of Rectory Road—perhaps Hillcrest Chase or Rectory Park Drive. St Michael's church looms in the background.

The grounds behind the hall became a public park, with a small museum exhibiting fine art and crafts, mainly from Ancient Egypt. The spire at the far end of Teehey Lane is that of Christ Church.

A pram is parked outside W Eden (right), the boot dealer and repairer.

Little changed today, the pool at Stratford Park was opened in 1937 and has always been popular, with youngsters in particular, during the summer months.

With galleries added on the left, and reduced in height by one storey, it now houses Stroud's new Museum in the Park, opened in 2001.

This is a later photograph, with the futuristic-looking covered car park visible on the right - a car can just be seen there, giving an idea of its scale.

We are looking north towards Stewart Park and Middlesbrough beyond.

Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Some of it was used to create Stanhope Park, and it was here that the Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth was built in 1875.

A contrast to the stadium complex, and the numerous large office blocks that have materialised over the past twenty years, particularly along Empire Way, the road swings to rise up to the Wembley Park

its junction with Laura Place you can look along Great Pulteney Street towards the Holburne Museum, built as the Sydney House hotel in 1796 to serve the Sydney Gardens beyond, a large hexagonal public park

A total contrast is Charlcombe, a tiny hamlet on a minor road a mere half mile north of the Bath suburb of Fairfield Park.

Brought back as spoils of war, they were later given to the park in 1874, and the columned baldocchinos were erected by a Captain Huth in 1914.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

Victoria Road, leading to Heath Park on the south side of the railway, provides the photographer with a catwalk for an Edwardian fashion parade.

Though there is not a double yellow line in sight, parking on Knifesmithgate was restricted to just one side of the street, alternating daily.

Visitors to Eaton Hall could alight here and walk through the park to the Hall, or go on a little further to Eaton Iron Bridge.

The palm trees add an exotic touch to the park in this view, which looks in a similar direction to the 1890 view (No 23967 on page 43).

The road on the left curves past the houses of Nansladron, where the fields in the valley floor are now caravan and camping parks.

Par Beach is seen at low tide with the china clay port of Par in the background.

Happy Valley was described as one of the best public parks or 'leisure grounds' in Britain, and was presented to the town by Lord Mostyn.

This monastic cell of St Mary's Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.