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The rural nature of Thornton Cleveleys away from the coast persisted. On the right is one of the old farmsteads.

The war memorial in the heart of Rutland Square is today surrounded by more extensive flowerbeds, but otherwise this scene from nearly half a century ago is little changed.

The owners of these parked cars must be shopping. The first building on the left was Barclays Bank; today it is still Barclays, but it has had a fresh lick of paint.

The heart of the Square Mile. City life looks as frenetic as it does today. Job mobility was unheard of in the Victorian office.

The street familiar today is clearly much in place by the mid 1950s. Westminster House (left) is the only post war addition on view.

A farm trap and a carriage with a liveried coachman make their way along George Street past the imposing façade of the Wilts and Dorset Bank, on the left, and the Brooklyn Cycle Depot across

The clock, just past Stephen & Fred Green belongs to Bisley H Munt & Son, jewellers, established 1796 (according to the inscription on the clock-face), and it can still be found.

Not something that would happen today with any degree of safety, a gentleman poses for the camera in the middle of the street.

Today the National Provincial Bank has been replaced by the Tudor House Hotel, which occupies the same building.

A popular promenade on the River Towy is an embankment, called the Bulwark, extending for about a mile on the south side of the river.

Walton-le-Soken was an agricultural and beachcombing parish that expanded into Walton-on-the-Naze in the 1820s. Its early visitors were upper-class people who had summer homes here.

After the decline of its port, Newquay turned its attention to tourism. The population in 1871 was just over 1,000, but by the 1950s it had grown to 12,000.

This view facing the medieval bridge shows the boatyard in the foreground with the old stocking factory on the right and the bacon factory on the left.

There is evidence that this headland was occupied during the Iron Age. It is thought that one or two stock-rearing families lived here, with banks and ditches across the neck of the promontory.

About twenty-five miles downstream from its source we reach the stone-built town of Lechlade on the Gloucestershire bank of the Thames. The Ha'penny Bridge was built in 1792 to replace a ferry.

Here, within the heartland of the city's commercial and financial life, the imposing Victorian buildings we see are still standing today.

The old Northamptonshire Union Bank on the right of the picture is now the Nat West, though fortunately the facade remains intact.

The Vine Hotel was certainly the largest building in the village; it was built before the Second World War. The writer seems to recall it being more of a very popular pub than a busy hotel.

The lake, privately owned, was justly renowned for its beauty, especially in autumn.

A view from the Shire Hall along what was to become a heavily congested street, until the building of the new relief road, with a string of Georgian and early Victorian shopfronts overshadowed by the

Entering the village from Clitheroe, the road dips to cross Heys Brook. Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

This view of the Mill House, further north along the Buckinghamshire bank, captures wonderfully the curious formality of late Victorian leisure activity as the fishermen sit stiffly in

Back at the river, this view shows the crowds watching the Procession of College Boats, held every year on 4 June to commemorate George III's birthday.

Behind the pony trap on the right we can glimpse Hiley's Restaurant (now the Nat West Bank), noted for its shilling dinners.