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Brungerley was long-favoured for its Good Friday and other Bank Holiday celebrations. It was the first outlet for fun following the long winter after Christmas festivities.

Taken from the end of the promenade by the Bourne Arms, the scene shows the once-busy steam ferry arriving from Fleetwood across the Wyre estuary.

There are familiar names here, with Barclays Bank, Woolworths, Currys, Freeman Hardy Willis and Hepworths. None of them remains on the same site, though Woolworths has not moved far.

A view of the High Street showing—on the left—the Town Hall of 1900, which housed Barclays Bank and the Post Office downstairs.

Note the variety of roof lines on the left. Fred Dickinson , newsagent and tobacconist, owned 'The Lile Bacca Shop' (left).

Although bearing a date of 1682, this packhorse bridge across the River Yarrow was constructed in 1671.

This view shows the tower of St Peter's Church from the now much-municipalised Reading bank. The church tower was rebuilt in 1878.

The market has not changed fundamentally over the years, except that today the emphasis is on clothes and general bric-a-brac, whereas the livestock sales that originated here are long gone.

The photographer is looking east towards Poole Head, at the end of the long high cliff of Poole Bay which includes Bournemouth. To the left, Banks Road runs alongside Poole Harbour.

The cityside banks of the Thames were busy with stevedores and dockers during the Victorian era, for London’s river had been the source of its prosperity for centuries.

Camberwell Green is seen from the bottom of Denmark Hill. Approaching is an LCC ambulance; on the left a tram, about to go out of service, heads towards Walworth Road.

Here we see the Erith riverside before the flood defences and the Thames Path were built.

Motorised transport is in the process of taking over from more traditional methods, while the three small boys on the left have to make do with two bikes between them!

In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

This view looks north-westwards from the south bank to the 1927-built South Bridge (left) which replaced a graceful five- arch Norman bridge.

This view from the roundabout looks north along Turner's Hill, where the contrast between the modern shopping parade and the smaller old shops can be appreciated.

Laygate Lane is one of a number of sturdy Victorian terraces in South Shields; many of them were built speculatively by developers as the town expanded thanks to the coal and alkali industries.

Even though there are no leaves on the trees, Lord Street is still busy; as at Blackpool, trippers visit all year round.

The area at the top of Staithes is known as Bank Top and here, in 1929, we see two recently- completed bay-fronted detached bungalows (right of view) which have been carefully positioned to take full

An interesting view from the south bank of the Thames looking east, before Christchurch Meadows on the left were made into a riverside park, and, more significantly, before Reading Bridge was built

The six-arched bridge, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was built in 1864 using bricks made locally. During the same period he also rebuilt the church, which had become derelict.

A fire on August Bank Holiday Monday 1931 destroyed a small seaward end pavilion, erected in 1907, along with the mid-length shelters and shops.

In the foreground is the Grand Union Canal, with the houses of Blisworth and the 15th-century tower of the church to be seen on the opposite bank.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.