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When this view was taken, it was nearly 20 years after the opening of the pool in Bishop's Road.

This view is taken from the meadow beside the canal, the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Union Canal, which opened in 1815. The meadow is now occupied by 1990s housing, Hilda Wharf.

On the left is the 1938 neo-Georgian Marks and Spencer's that replaced Longleys. The rest of the buildings are in their last few years of existence.

Moving east, the route passes through Whitchurch on its way back to Aylesbury.

Having your photograph taken was part of a holiday, and these booths would take your photograph and turn out six or twelve copies in about an hour.

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

This picture gives us a good view of Marine Drive, built in 1894 as the sea retreated. The Drive created a large area of water around the pier, which was known locally as the Lagoon.

This aerial shot shows the whole of the northern part of the town. In the distance is Birnbeck Pier with the steamer jetty to the north, and the lifeboat slipway on the south.

This is a closer view of the car in the previous picture. This Singer Junior was first registered in Dorset in November 1929. The vehicle cost about £140, and had a top speed of 56 miles per hour.

One of the ways farmers cheated their customers was to fill only the top portion of the 14lb butter jars and leave the remainder empty.

The Infirmary (on the right) was built opposite Coleman & Morton's ironworks - a firm that had specialised in ploughs and cultivators, but closed as a result of the agricultural depression.

This is a classic view of Neville Street, with the entrance to the Central Station on the left and St Mary's Roman Catholic Church in the background.

When the Victoria Pier was completed in 1872 it gave Douglas the facility to handle steamers regardless of the state of the tide.

The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's Church.

The circuitous narrow road which leads up from the Swaledale village of Keld is being negotiated by an early motorcar.

This historic, red, sandstone market town suffered at the hands of the Scottish raiders down the centuries—its castle is now little more than a ruin. It nestles under the wooded slopes of the Beacon.

Horses were still commonly used on the land, and this scene, showing the loading of a hay wagon on the shores of Buttermere, with Honister Crag and Fleetwith Pike prominent in the background, demonstrates

It is accessible by foot at low tide, and many a holidaymaker has fallen foul of the tide's rapid reversal – a sobering cold night spent on the island their reward.

Mercers Row leads west from the market place, with the parish church of All Saints to its left. It was largely rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1675 which destroyed most of the town centre.

The A12 runs through the village, with Chapel Road (leading to the Congregational chapel of 1778) to the left and Blythburgh Road to the right.

We are looking down on Daventry from Newnham Hill, a view that has been changed by a pink rash of housing estates as the town rapidly expanded from its comfortable 5000 in 1955 to around

Right in the far north-eastern corner of the county, Disley straddles the busy A6.

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

The older parts of Chipstead village are on the chalk ridge above the dry valley some 150 feet below, along which Chipstead Valley Road runs.