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The blank site behind is now occupied by Thorngate House, a nasty 1960s office block: not a very attractive backdrop to this old merchant's house.

Opened in June 1900, the immense hotel block dominates Fistral Beach on the edge of Newquay. A horse and open carriage are about to take guests on an excursion.

This view, similar to number 16049, is interesting, because it shows the square block of the new cable station on the right.

Many of the original houses are now blocks of flats.

The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built. The butcher's, nearest the camera, is certainly attracting window-shoppers. Just to its left is a cafeteria.

Cheap rail fares and discounts at digs for block bookings boosted the holiday trade at both Blackpool and Southport.

Until the by-pass opened in the 1990s, Northleach High Street was chock-a-block with heavy traffic. Today the scene is more reminiscent of this peaceful scene from the past.

The large double doors on the right-hand side of the pub have been blocked off and a window installed to provide more bar space.

A new retail block has been built between the post office and Marks & Spencer, replacing Lesters and the White Swan. Boots has moved from its previous location next to Woolworths.

King Arthur is said to have celebrated a victory over the Danes by feasting at a rock nearby called the Table Mên.

One of the boys' blocks of dormitories/study rooms is also shown.

Blocks of 1980s flats and tall riverside apartments line the marina edge, Brindley Quay.

The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962. A 14-storey block of 84 flats, it was named after Henry Brooke, the former Housing Minister.

In the foreground are the games pitches, with the newly-built classroom block to one side.

Also in this block was Holden's dining rooms, Wolstenholmes (photographer to the Lord Mayor of London), Horace Fowler, who sold only non-alcoholic beer and soft drinks, and a place where you could hire

Looking along the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal towards the T-junction with the Trent & Mersey, an attractive bridge carries the latter's towpath across the former on a slender brick arch with

The boys would now be contemplating uninspiring blocks of three-storey flats on the Waterside or left bank.

Taken in the famous J Block, sited on the original location of the first Vauxhall production facility in Luton, this photograph shows Vauxhall Wyverns nearing the end of the assembly line.

Outside the 19th-century cell block, where Conscientious Objectors were imprisoned in 1916, stands the Sebastopol cannon, long since gone, brought to the town in 1858 and accompanied on its journey

In this view the original hospital buildings show the stripped-down classicism used for the 1930s main block.

Today it is pedestrianised, but a century ago it was full of horse-drawn vehicles, clattering less noisily than usual over its pine block roadway, laid to deaden the noise of traffic.

The turreted and lead domed building of 1903, now Dorothy Perkins, survives, but the left hand one was replaced by a nine-storey monster office block, Berkshire House, and others were swept away in the

Perhaps they didn't like the photographer - or it might be the fact that they are sitting on a rock covered in wet seaweed. They have recently been identified as twin boys, Matthew and Robert Peart.