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Along the Marlow Road at the west end of Kidwell's Park is the former Technical School, dated 1895.

Designed by Shirley Harrison in 1913 in a classical yet economical style, the rendered brick building sits well in its very formal garden, close to Victoria Park and to Lutyens' War Memorial.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

The building with the two cars parked outside is The Nag's Head (formerly The White Lion), which dates from the first part of the 1700s.

Ten years later it would be a different story, and special parking provisions would have to be made to accommodate the huge amount of road traffic.

Albert Park was given to the town in 1868 by the famous ironmaster Henry Bolckow, who spent some £30,000 in purchasing the land and preparing it.

The town's Parks and Gardens department is justifiably proud of its long record of good husbandry in the Embankment Gardens.

transforming the street about 1845, and the businesses we can see here include A & S Henry (Importers), the famous S & J Watts & Co, and Sam Mendel, a rope and twine manufacturer, who lived at Manley Park

Note the parking restrictions on this narrow road: no waiting is permitted on odd dates on one side of the road, and on even dates on the other.

The church with the central rose window and tower (left) is the Park Street Methodist church, built in 1885–86.

See how the river comes right up to the quays in the heart of the city - all of this was later covered over to become a car park.

The houses are now surrounded by the new Croesonnen Park estate, which was begun in 1965. In 1955 the land to the left of the road was part of Chandler's market garden.

Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat—his cycle is parked under the signpost.

This thoroughfare is a continuation of Westgate and Park Lane, and at 80 ft wide is 10 ft wider than Union Street, Aberdeen.

Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family, who were earl, duke, bishop, lords, knights and baronets.

Many small, enterprising landowners attempted to lay out 'zoos' and farm parks in the decades following the Second World War, and most vanished.

Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.

Downstream in the park there is a second bridge, balustraded in classical style, which is known as Wren Bridge.

Judging by the number of cars parked outside, Blinkhorn & Son are having a good day. However, 1931 was a bad year for British motor manufacturers, with a combined output of just 159,000 cars.

The two buses parked on the left are outside the Bell Hotel, birthplace of the Leicester-Swannington railway, the first in the Midlands.

The view shows the centre of Domesday Anstige, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park.

St Ives is seen from Draycott Terrace, overlooking cottages in Primrose Valley below and the curving sweep of the railway station beyond, most of which is now a car park.

This is now a lost view because of the tree growth in the park. Selby Abbey is now regarded as a world heritage site.