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Apart from a petrol station on the right and an increase in traffic, the scene is virtually unchanged today.

This area is also the 'bus station; there are two charabancs at the far end.

In the centre of Kingsbury is the drinking fountain installed in 1914; it was removed in 1929 when a bus station was erected in the Square, and later re-erected in the Vale Park (see Chapter 2)

St Mary's Gate is to the left, and the now lost Victoria Street is away to the right, leading to Exchange Station; Cromwell's Statue can just be seen on the far right.

The building to the left of it was for many years a printer's and stationer's and the original offices of the Daventry Express.

His son, George Gilbert, was born in the vicarage in 1811, and later became one of England's greatest Victorian architects; his work includes the Foreign Office, St Pancras Station Hotel, and

It was later used as a telegraph station between 1840 and 1900. Flamborough's new lighthouse was constructed 400 yards from this tower in 1806.

The building to its left has been demolished to create a car parking area, and the ornate clock on the wall of W Sumpter's stationer's shop (left) is also, unfortunately, a thing of the past.

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Then during World War II the Public Hall was a garrison theatre for our servicemen and women and for the thousands of American troops stationed here prior to the D-Day landings; they had many famous artists

The railway station is on the Bluebell Line to East Grinstead. The village stores has been made by adapting a house.

The entrance to the mainline station can be seen on the right, while the tower of St Cadfan's church is clearly visible in the centre of the picture.

On the high road between Dorchester and Exeter, less than three miles east of Lyme Regis, Charmouth is reputed to have been one of the Roman stations and the later scene of fierce struggles between the

church has no accompanying village, for Lord Liverpool, who owned the estate in the 1830s, eventually succeeded in removing the village in the interests of his privacy, rebuilding it near the railway station. A

Although the original village green is away to the south, along the High Street it is the superbly spacious circular underground station by Charles Holden, and the grassy roundabout, that create a new

A lifeboat station has been added to the end of the pier, saving precious minutes when launching the lifeboat.

Cattle still graze here, but beyond the left-hand dredging barges the view north is now dominated by the cooling towers and chimneys of High Marnham Power Station, opened in 1962.

is in two parts, up the hill where the medieval church is, and Caterham Valley to the east on the valley floor, which grew up when the railway arrived in 1856 - it was in fact a terminus station

This photograph looks north past the garage, now rebuilt as a BP petrol station. Beyond is the almost inevitable Surrey mock-Tudor half-timbered shopping parade.

The bus station relocated to another site in Newbury some years ago and today the area on the right is a car park.

On the opening of the Barry lifeboat station at the entrance to Barry Docks, the watchtowe (built in 1865 when the population of Barry was fewer than 100) ceased to be used - it later became the first

Beyond workshops, now a house, the gable with the Gothic window is a Victorian chapel, now a small (closed) fire station. The shop on the right, Fosters, is still the village shop.

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction

The Corporation had just gained some experience in supplying electricity for light in the city centre from a station in Chapel Lane.