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On the right is the Wesleyan Chapel. John Wesley visited Newark on six occasions between 1743 and 1788.

London Road at this time appears to be reasonably well maintained, though there was a time when roads were anything but.

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

Where London’s other bridges are dignified and utilitarian, Tower Bridge, with its ‘daring majesty’ cocks a snook at Victorian formality.

The Pitched Stone Court at Raglan took its name from the pitching or cobbling of its surface.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr Price

Bute Town (Drenewydd), on the top left-hand side, was modelled after a rural Cumbrian village.

One of the most attractive features of Astle Park was the lake, now almost silted up.

The 'Compton Castle', which we see here, was built by B Cox & Company of Falmouth in 1914; she originally had an open bridge which was enclosed in the 1920s.

How did Stone get its name?

The rocky coast around Heysham Head pro- vided excitement and danger for its Victorian and Edwardian visitors. No holiday in Morecambe or Lancaster was complete without a day at Heysham.

A top of the range television set - twice the size of the little boxes on which the nation viewed the Coronation two years earlier - stands in the communal room at the end of the first line of Golden Acre

This photograph, probably taken from the top of St Mary Woolnoth Church, shows the view west down Poultry which leads directly into Cheapside.

The Prince Albert stands further south on Horley Road, actually in South Earlsfield rather than Salfords, and north of the junction of Horley Road with Woodhatch Road.

Stourport grew around the former village of Little Mitton by a stroke of fortune.

Under the two awnings on the left are Foster`s bakery (advertising Hovis above) and Clunas the chemist (advertising Iron Jelloids). Further down, on the pavement, is the town`s pump.

This is the second public house of the village, and a lot less famous than the Maypole. It was originally a beer house, which was established as the village grew.

The centre was of particular importance to London's disabled as a resort. The Winged Fellowship used it as a centre for respite care and holidays for the disabled.

At 511ft, Cairn Top is the highest of the hills overlooking the town.

In 1900 it was decided that the cargo handling and berthing facilities at Avonmouth needed upgrading so that the larger steamers then being built could use the port.

As can be seen here, roads in the mid 1950s were a lot quieter than they are today. In 1955 UK car production reached a new record of nearly 900,000 cars and home sales were counted at over 500,000.

From one of these fine thatched cottages John Hassell plied his trade as a porter.

The caverns at Castleton were, and still are, a popular day out for people from the Sheffield area.

This was one of two viaducts on the Manx Northern line between St John's and Ramsey. The other was at Glen Mooar.