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The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand.

Banks Road and The Crescent (W170049) form the heart of the original village.

Work began on Blackpool's second pier in 1867 and took less than a year to complete.

This large, late 19th-century factory is still in production with brands including Rigby and Peller of London.

This is another view westwards from opposite the Bull Hotel, with a sighting of Boy Scouts in hats (beside the lamp-post) and a pavement placard for Devonshire Cream Teas.

This broad road leading into the heart of the town is bounded by 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

A bustling street scene at the junction of Oxford Street and the Charing Cross Road.We think of advertising as a modern phenomenon.

Ten years after photograph No 23672, the church has its brand new spire, completed in 1899.

The Bere Stream, seen looking eastwards from Southbrook Bridge, towards Bedford and Jesty's watercress beds with a glimpse of Woodbury Hill (top left).

Sherman Ferris`s bakery (left) used to stock ice cream, and was therefore much-frequented by children.

Stan Leach and his wife kept Corfe Mullen Post Office (top right), which is still going under different ownership.

Brand new, still with scaffold planks stacked behind the gate, the Secondary School in St Andrew's Road was built on land given by Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs Thomas Alfred Colfox.

Almost brand new at the time this photograph was taken, the first multi-storey car park of this size in the country opened on the site of Lee Street, the birthplace of Joseph Merrick, the tragic Elephant

Still a busy intersection, the traffic crawls and tourists throng on departing the castle.

The smooth tarmaced surface of Brand Street contrasts with the rutted and rough surface of the 1800s.

Dedicated to Wisbech's most famous son, Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846): one of the key figures in the movement for the abolition of the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Trebilcock's shop is displaying the well-known brand of K shoes and boots.

The historic Grade II listed clock that overhangs the A25 was brand new when this photograph was taken.

Note the unfenced playground equipment, and the little box on old pram wheels that so many children made, so typical of the time.

It is Saturday in Kingston Market Place, and swarms of shoppers have descended to see the fresh produce on offer that might supplement the wartime rationing that was still in force.

The railway is the only rack railway in Britain, and runs for just over four-and-a-half miles from Llanberis to Snowdon Summit.

R84037 (page 34) is a reminder of how our streets were once filled with a profusion of tobacco advertisements - Capstan, Player's, St Julien, St Bruno, Gold Flake, Senior Service - hardly any famous brand

The picture shows Sompting General Supply Stores with a sign fixed to the shopfront advertising Players Weights cigarettes, a popular budget brand.

Next-door, the International Tea Company`s Stores Limited has re-branded itself as the International Stores, and would remain a major grocery chain until the coming of purpose-built supermarkets