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The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

Between 1914 and 1920 there were huge increases in the price of basic foodstuffs, but by the time this picture was taken they were falling to near pre-war levels.

On the right-hand side of the street by the parked car is the village inn, the Sir Walter Raleigh, named in honour of East Budleigh's most famous son.

During the Cold War, Ringstead was dominated by the masts (top right) of a military communications station.

On the left at the end of the Prom is a hut used by the builders of the second part of Alexandra Hall, which housed women students.

In the late 20th century new sails were fitted by the experts the Gillatt brothers, and the interior now has a pictorial history of the mill and many relevant artefacts.

By the beginning of the 20th century the national retail chains were opening branches along what was considered one of the finest streets for shopping in England.

Overseen by the pindar, stray animals were kept here until the owners arrived to pay a small fee for their release. The equivalent today would be the parking clamp and council vehicle pound!

Known as the 'Windsor of the North', this mansion in the Gothic style was designed for Lord Henry Brougham (1778-1868), by the architects Cottingham and Hussey.

The effective boundary of the medieval town to the west was provided by the river.

This was installed at a cost of £195; it bore the inscription, 'Erected by the Parishioners in memory of Henry Yool of Field Place, Weybridge, 1896'.

The young man's body was brought back to St Donat's, where it lay in state in the great gallery, looked down upon by the portraits of his equally dead ancestors.

He lived his last few years upstream in Marlow and is buried in its parish churchyard by the river.

Looking beyond the medieval parish church the building on the hill behind is the Georgian rectory built in the 1730s by the Rev Benjamin Robertshaw, overlooking the town and away from its bustle

The Cavendish Hotel is the taller building at the left, now dwarfed by the remarkably ill-judged grey mass of the Transport and General Workers Union Holiday and Conference Centre opened in 1976.

The 11th-century castle was extended by the Percy family after they bought it in 1309.

By the early 1920s Bishop Auckland was one of only a handful of 18-hole courses in County Durham; many, such as Barnard Castle, Felling, Ravensworth, Fence Houses (Lambton Collieries), and Durham City

The 11th-century castle was extended by the Percy family following its purchase by them in 1309.

In the picture, heavy horses wait patiently by the stable while they are prepared for work. On the roofline a builder stands on a scaffolding platform repairing a chimneystack.

It is now bypassed by the A55, and looks across the broad eastern approaches of the Menai Strait to Anglesey.

On the left is the Close Wall and St Ann's Gate; on the right the White Hart Hotel stands out, with its giant portico surmounted by the eponymous deer.

By the time this picture was taken, the arrival of the Metropolitan railway in the town ten years earlier had seen part of the extensive grounds sold for housing development.

Two miles south east of Rotherham, Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

The pretty village of Shackleford, west of Godalming, has a mixture of houses in different styles, as evidenced here by the creeper-clad building on the right, the tall-chimneyed cottages with their neatly