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This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

Carriage building and slaughtering are in evidence in Station Road on the eastern side of Kenley Station, along with some neat Victorian houses.

The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.

The Tudor-style houses in the village are, however, imitations constructed around the middle of the 19th century.

Though by no means unchanged, this riverside house is still recognisable and has an enviable situation.

The houses were then just above the shoreline. Neither Yewbarrow Terrace to the left nor the war memorial on the promontory on the right had been constructed at this date.

The building on the corner of Broadway with the stylish curved frontage (right) housed Woods the tobacconist's and Porter's Wallpapers, both familiar names to Accringtonians over many

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century Harbour Office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships captains.

People walk in the roads, obviously unused to avoiding traffic - there is only a horse and cart and one small car in sight.

The building here housing the Mitre Hotel in King Street was, in 1826, the birthplace of Penrith's Crimea War hero Trooper William Pearson.

Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house.

The large house on the left has been built on South Back Way with a pleasant southerly aspect and a spacious garden.

Hansom cabs line up in King's Parade, outside the elegant classically designed Senate House to the right.

In the background is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

This famous shopping street started in the 1760s as a row of elegant houses designed by the architect John Wood.

Today the flats` distinctive roofline has been renewed; the approach road is metalled now, and there are houses to the left.

Nearby is Blaise Castle House which even in the 1920s had the best golf course in the area; green fees were 3s, Sunday play was available, and members of the ladies golf union were permitted.

Featured here is the Red Lion Hotel, a rare example of an urban tower house built for defence against Scots and Border raiders, though it does not have a vaulted basement.

The buildings, including the 18th century Warwick House with St Mary's 252ft- tall spire behind it, are all recognisable today, though the market site at the top of the road is

The village at this time is an unspoilt mix of traditional single-storey thatched crofts and solid-looking two-storey stone houses.

The nearby manor house of Wolfeton was built in the reign of Henry VIII, and was for many years the home of the Trenchard family.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

The M20 now cuts directly across this picture, and new factory and housing developments fill the scene.

At the far end on the left is the Ancient House, with its unmistakable overhanging upper storey.