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Prestatyn's station on the Chester and Holyhead section of the L & NWR meant that it became increasingly popular with holidaymakers, especially with those from the Liverpool area.

This street is now known as Station Road, and is part of the ring road. Almost every building we can see here has since been demolished.

Among the shops along here at that time were Alexander Grey (ironmonger), Victor Flint (fishmonger), Mrs Letitia Archibald (draper and stationer), Mrs Annie Augenault (confectioner), John Clark (hairdresser

A tram en route to Chester General station enters a passing loop; Eastgate Street was too narrow for double track to be laid.

Spencer's the stationer's beyond Finkle Street sold postcards, perhaps including Frith's!

When the lighthouse ceased operations in 1921 the light was removed, and the tower became refreshment rooms, and subsequently a gunnery and observation station during the Second World War.

During the Second World War American forces were stationed here, and it was they who built the roads that are now used for the racetrack - the site was taken over for motor racing in 1953.

This is the junction of Coastal Road and Station Road, with 'Halt' signs painted on the road and squared T-shaped traffic signs gently controlling what little traffic there was.

When the railway opened in 1840 a horse bus took passengers from The Golden Cross to the station at Aston Fields. A bell was rung to let passengers know when the bus was ready to go.

Behind is Southampton's Civic Centre housing the civic offices, the police station, Southampton lending library and an art gallery. Its tower is 158 ft high.

All that was needed is here: the petrol station is on the left, and on the right Rose's Stores.

Beyond is the Provisions Market of 1834, later the School of Art, fire station and library, now also shops.

Later it became Oxley's Mineral Water factory, and in 1943 even produced Coca Cola for American troops stationed nearby.

Haywards Heath grew up as a commuter town on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, whose isolated 1841 station for Cuckfield formed its nucleus.

A train has just left Holborn Viaduct Station and thunders south over the bridge, steam ballooning out over the roofs. Below, traffic crawls miserably up Ludgate Hill.

There are several customers for the tobacconist's on the right, and for Alun Jones's shop, a stationers and music sellers, while a horse and cart pauses at the shop on the left.

Records show that Formby was the site of the first lifeboat station in the British Isles.

In 1889 the left part was burnt down and replaced by the gable-fronted fire station, which is now a kebab restaurant.

In the distance the modern cooling towers of Ferrybridge Power Station and in the middle distance the Aire and Calder Navigation parallel with the River Aire.

The building incorporated the Central Police Station, so there were cells and a Police Court as well as a Civic Hall. The local furniture makers Waring and Gillow provided the furniture.

Cookes next door was a printer and stationer selling postcards, and then came A G Metcalfe, a baker with café, and R S Corner, a confectioner.

There was no bus station in the town, so buses parked in designated ranks painted on the road surface.

Multi-talented W Frost advertised himself as stationer, printer, bookseller, bookbinder, newsagent, and circulating library manager.

The main line railway station is to the south of the village centre.