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We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.

It is said that it was last used in 1665 when 'two vagabonds were publicly flogged here'.

This superb Ketton stone-faced Gothic Revival church was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728

Richard Fleming Richard Fleming (died 1431) was rector of Boston from 1408 to 1419, when he became Bishop of Lincoln.

This area, surrounded by buildings, was known as Exchange Flags when it first opened at the end of the 1700s. At one time you had to be invited to walk on the Exchange Flags.

This is the view the big houses saw, with the new rows of houses which had helped to add nearly 50% to the town's population in ten years.

Looking across the sands to Smeaton's Pier. Fishing boats still bob at anchor on the high tide, but tourism is now the dominant industry.

Founded in 1823, this building, at the foot of The Mound, housed a statue gallery when this picture was taken. There was also a collection of casts that was open only to art students.

The statue of Queen Victoria graced the square from May 1904. A crowd of 70,000 cheered the Prince and Princess of Wales, who were also here to open the Bradford Exhibition at Lister Park.

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

Portreath was once a thriving little mining port at the terminus of Cornwall's first (horse-drawn) railway.

The creators of the impressive neo-Jacobean panelling probably never expected that it would one day be partnered with a set of utilitarian chairs that would look more at home in a village

Without doubt, Bluntisham's most famous daughter was the novellist Dorothy L Sayers, creator of the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey.

Thatched cottages abound in this view; at this time, Trumpington was a village separate from Cambridge.

For casualties, the Pitsea Health Centre was held at Pitsea School, and was one of just three for Basildon residents of the 1950s; the others were in Craylands, Timberlog Lane, and Florence Road, Laindon

St Anne's Church at the end of Load Street was originally a chantry chapel, said to have been built by fugitives so that they might claim sanctuary. The present church was built in 1746.

A uniformed policeman is on duty in Maidenhead High Street.

This photograph shows Kings Road at the point where it meets Cemetery Junction, to the east of the town.

At this date the town had just one hotel recommended by the Dunlop Motorists Guide. This was the 25-bedroom Royal George.

Here is an unusual mix: the older thatched inn is attached to a three-storey Victorian block at Churchtown in the village.

On the right is the Town Hall in all its Gothic splendour, which was completed in 1873 at a cost of £100,000.

The Bruce family bought it in 1624 and lived there for nearly 70 years.

The White Swan public house, first mentioned in 1722, stands on raised ground just beyond the beached punts to the left of centre.

Most of the islanders at that time were extremely poor, and like the inhabitants of other coastal areas saw smuggling as a way of augmenting their poverty-stricken existence.