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Taken close to Junction station, this photograph shows the North Devon Infirmary, the white building below the church tower.

A lady pushes a pram towards the shops, while the man beside the Morris Minor (centre left) calls over the road to his wife. The second shop on the left is Lloyds Bank.

We can just see the Market Cross on the right in the distance. Two vehicles from the United Bus Company pick up passengers, the nearer one (centre right) serving the Great Ayton to Redcar route.

Looking at a tranquil summer scene like this, it is difficult to imagine the furious weather to which Torcross is sometimes exposed.

Gazing up the street past Wilks Teenage Fashions (left) with the Elkes Cafe above, we can see Barclays Bank. This was built in 1921 on the site of Huggins & Chambers, an ironmonger's.

Located on the western bank of Southampton Water, in the shadow of an oil refinery and heavy industry, Hythe is unexpectedly pretty in places.

Banks Road and The Crescent (W170049) form the heart of the original village. There is a wide-ranging array of shops, many of them tucked away beneath the arcades.

As well as its three main arches, the bridge also has six smaller flood arches across the fields on the south bank. A

These riverside houses have been replaced by the Albert Embankment, which was built between 1866 and 1870. To the left are the Lambeth potteries, which had operated since Elizabeth I's reign.

Now known as the Shillingford Bridge Hotel, and with a large and rather poor extension replacing the clapboarded building to the right, this Georgian inn is situated on the south bank by the elegant bridge

Two mothers with contrasting baby transport pass the market place. Still a going concern, Hinckley's busy market draws people from a wide area of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

The sign 'Luncheons and Teas' on the right, just beyond the White Hart, advertises the Two Sisters Café, which from 1939 to 1949 was also a guest house.

Upright staves are inserted at the water's edge. These reinforce the efforts we saw in photograph 18208 to diminish the sea's force and to protect the cramped houses and banks.

The pierhead pavilion remained in use as a ballroom, before eventually becoming a victim of fire. Twinkle-toed holidaymakers were able to 'Dance to the Melotones'.

Dartmouth regatta is still held in August; but rarely can the river have been as busy or the boats as decorated as here in late Victorian times, when attendance at the regatta was highly chic and drew

This tranquil view, taken from the west bank of the Severn, includes not only the cathedral but also All Saints' Church and St Andrew's.

On the right is the Albany Hotel and the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.

'At weekends in summer and on Bank Holidays, Bourton on the Water has to suffer the invasions which have resulted from the discovery of its beauty, but at other times its charms are unobscured and can

The Grammar School, on Normanby Road, South Bank was opened in 1955.

Here the 1903 widening of the bridge has just been completed, hence the pristine stonework.

Reading Bridge is an elegant reinforced concrete one, with a single main span and Brunel-like arches on each bank. Opened in 1923, it is an examplar of what can be done in the material.

This photograph was taken at the front of Eastleigh railway station. The front of the National Provincial Bank, now the National Westminster, has barely changed since 1960.

The post office, now Swan Cottage, displayed advertisements for Walls ice cream and Bird's Eye frozen foods.

The market is now filled with parked cars, vans, lorries and buses, with at least seven traffic signs in sight.