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In 1921, locomotive and rolling stock manufacturing in the North East provided 6300 jobs; by 1951, the figure had risen to 11,000.

Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

The local policeman (centre) goes on his daily beat around this peaceful village – a sight not to be seen now. The

This is a pretty church in a small village to the north east of Melton Mowbray, on what was once a route through to Sproxton.

Chorley Town Hall, with its clock and spire, show up (right) at the north end of the street.

Trams used to run along Mandale Road between Norton and North Ormesby, but that was more than seventy years ago.

East Mill and its mill pool, looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker towards houses beside East Road (centre).

This profitable use for the local land had swept away the old rabbit warrens by 1800; the only trace of them left is the reference to the Warren Footpath on old pictures of the riverside from Marble

Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

Bradwell is a bustling little former lead mining village on the south side of the Hope Valley in north Derbyshire.

While St Andrew's was still a smoking ruin, someone wrote the word Resurgam (Latin for 'I will rise again') above the door of the north porch (left), and ever since it has been known as

Chorley Town Hall, with its clock and spire, show up (right) at the north end of the street.

Much of this prosperous market town, north of the Broads, was rebuilt after a major fire in 1600.

This view of St George's Plateau shows the London & North Western Railway Hotel; it was built by the London & North Western Railway Company, and opened in 1871.

Here the photographer looks north-west from near the hillfort that occupies the crest of the ridge, towards Poynings village and the scarp of the South Downs beyond at North Hill and Newtimber Hill.

A remarkably foreshortened shot, westwards down West Street, with the 1785-built arch (far left) being the north- west corner of the Town Hall.

Our first rural tour heads eastwards, skirting to the north of the Pevensey Levels, those great marshes largely drained during the Middle Ages, and following the road that heads for Ninfield

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

According to the Wiltshire and Swindon Record Office, about 50 private houses were built in Bryans Close Road in the angle of North Street and Oxford Road in 1930.

The Town Hall, in the 1950s a cinema, was demolished; now a gruesome 1960s Co-op mars the north-west corner of the Market Place, which has the fine parish church to its north side.

Now past the North Street junction, Frith's photographer is looking north past the covered wagon with its load of barrels and sacks towards the pedimented gable of the 1868 Wesleyan church

It is unusual in that it is an L-plan building incorporating the Abbey chancel, crossing and north transept with its 13th-century tower and 14th-century belfry.

London Road is not the main road to London any more.