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This bridge carrying the A131 over the Stour was built of reinforced concrete in 1911.

The wooden cycle stand is positioned in front of the bay window with its tempting display.

With only a few of the original cottages remaining on the right-hand side of this picture, we can see that this village is undergoing a population explosion, with many families moving from

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.The bank, with its solid door, is half hidden by

Of the latter were the 'Garth', 'Maesteg', 'Rhymney' and 'Rhondda'; they were of between 156 and 170 gross tons and belonged to the Bristol Lighterage Co (a subsidiary of Elder Dempster).

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

Now occupied by the Winter Gardens, the Fort, also known as Fort Green, stood high up on the sea cliff east of Margate Harbour where a gun battery had stood during the Napoleonic wars.

One of many millponds used by the Sussex iron industry.The ponds stored water to drive waterwheels for powering furnace blowers, forging hammers for working wrought iron, and for driving lathes for

We are looking downhill and seawards from the post office (left) and the Volunteer Arms (far right) at the Top of Town.

The equestrian statue of Charles I on the left is the square's oldest statue; the king is looking towards the spot where he was executed in Whitehall in 1649.

Despite the brickwork at the east end, Marton's church of St James and St Paul is one of the oldest surviving timber churches in Europe - it was founded in 1343 by Sir John de Davenport, and hence the

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families.

The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre).

The old gentlemen on the right is a typical resident of the hospital, more so than the smart gentleman on the left, strolling with a lady who is keeping up with the latest fashion of a bustled skirt.

This area was developed after 1885 on land owned by the Freehold Land Society.

To the left of the castle stands Coity Church.

This view, taken in the same year as 41713, looks northwards from beside the north bank of the pond.

Colchester is often described as Britain's oldest recorded town - this was a town of vital importance to the Romans.

To the right is a destroyer of the Reserve Fleet; in the centre is the Naval Dry Dock; and to the left is the Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry.

Vale Park was created in 1898 from the grounds of two previous estates, Liscard Vale Hall and The Woodlands.

This stretch of Evesham Road has hardly changed, except for the constant traffic.

The local sandstone is not that durable, and St Stephen's has needed more than one restoration in the course of its relatively short life.

This view shows the fen edge linear pattern of the village; here William the Conqueror and Geoffrey de Manderville made their defensive stand for the island of Ely.

The solid stone structure of the Midland Bank building stands at the central junction, where the main A225 to Deptford is crossed by the A25 linking Maidstone and Westerham.