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Though it seems we are looking back into an era long past, already the trams are electric-powered. However, the cabs and carts are still relying on horse-power.

Built of sandstone and dating back to Saxon times, although with a Norman nave and chancel, it still has a number of small pews for children installed in 1790 at the beginning of the Sunday School

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

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

There were two hotels in the village, the Vine in the village centre and the Grange along Sea Bank Road just behind the sand hills.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left. Over to the right is Seaton's temperance hotel, one of several in the town.

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

On the Windsor bank the non-Etonian spectators watch the Procession of College Boats. In the distance, lined with spectators, is the bridge, nowadays pedestrianised.

During a terrible flood in 1952, the river burst its banks and five feet of water surged through the hotel and stables.

The track is the main line between Paddington and Exeter, and here is carried above the River Carey on the back of a five-arch viaduct.

We are looking towards Back Lane. This is a street mainly of 16th- or 17th- century timber-framed cottages.

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

The market that was traditionally held here was moved away in 1973, but it was recently brought back for a trial period after a campaign by local traders.

The town's reputation for its fine market harks back to the 14th century, when the first rights were granted to the abbot of Cockersands.

A rather complex road junction now marks the spot where these gates once stood.The gates, signifying the entrance to the Bevois Mount Estate, date back to 1844, but were removed before World War Two

The road is widening as we look back towards the High Street. Owen the pharmacist was at No 61 (right) until 1958, next door to the King David Inn, which was to close in 1973.

Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

Originally the site of a Saxon hunting lodge, much of the present Corfe Castle, which gives its name to the stone-built village beneath, dates back to the troubled reign of King Stephen.

The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'. Bus timetables announce United Counties services.

The western part is a burial vault for the Bankes family.

Here we see pairs of family homes with large front and back gardens built in the late 1950s. Beyond are bungalows for the elderly, built in 1961.

The county town of Kent stands on the banks of the River Medway. The oldest building, the Bishop's Palace, fronts the river beside the great medieval church of All Saints.