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Gravesend has two Victorian piers: the Royal Terrace Pier of 1843 lies to the east of the slightly earlier Town Pier we see in this view.

Here you can see the wide range of entertainment on offer on the beach. On the left, the tea tent was run by the Castle Coffee House, based in Castle Street.

Owing its rapid development to the Industrial Revolution, the town's streets and buildings tended to be functional rather than attractive.

The Port Talbot bypass opened in the mid 1960s - for its first 10 years it was the A48(M).

It was built in 1870 for the benefit of the hotel trade in Victoria's reign, and several hotels survive to this day, though some of the buildings are now blocks of flats.

This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

Many of the businesses seen here may be gone, but they are still remembered with affection by older residents.

Once Gainsborough was a busy port on the river Trent, and Bridge Street runs parallel to the river.

The stream which rises at Lavenham Hall used to flow here, but now it runs in a brick culvert underground.

Children impatiently wait with their parents to board the buses. In Southampton, buses took over from trams in the 1940s. Up until 1977 this station was shared with Hants & Dorset motor services.

We are now looking towards Bagshot, with the Cambridge Hotel the last building on the right.

In the 1860s the economist Bagehot described Lombard Street, that runs to the right of the Mansion House, as 'by far the greatest combination of economical power and economic delicacy the world has ever

South-eat of Chesham town centre the road runs alongside the River Chess in its flat-bottomed valley.

Spilling down from the Yorkshire Dales, the Ribble streams under the lovely old bridge at Settle and through the valley that has taken its name.

The scenic A32 runs through Droxford, which lies between Alton and Gosport. The first shop on the left is the post office – it has now moved.

When a new rector came to Chipstead's church of St Margaret in 1809, he got something of a shock. It had become quite dilapidated and very unholy indeed.

The latter, made with spicy fruit pastry, were first produced in 1638. The Original Cake Shop in Parsons Street (run by E W Brown at the time of this photograph) was demolished in 1968.

Here ducks dabble peacefully in the beck which runs through the centre of the village, while a mother proudly poses with her baby.

The village is said to have begun as the result of a shipwreck when survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.

As the industrialisation of weaving gathered pace, the town was eventually reached by the railway in July 1848. Within forty years a bigger station had to be built.

Horse trams are slowly climbing the hill on their journey from Tettenhall.

The cattle market was off Crow Street, adjacent to the ancient market place. Between the 1930s and 1970s this was one of the largest pig markets in the county.

The Wellington Hotel, still in business today, was one of the last posting houses in the country, with stage coaches running into the 1920s.

Percival's Swaledale Motor Services run buses (left) between Richmond and the Swaledale villages. The few people with motor cars park them at will.