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The High Street, with many cars, and a tarmacadam road, is much changed from earlier pictures. Simonds Bank is now Barclays, and Armstrongs has become Eighteens.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul's was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

This panoramic vista of the City and St Paul’s was probably taken from the southern tip of Southwark Bridge.

This scene, looking north along Banks Road from the corner of Eaton Road, has changed very little in recent years. There is still a newsagents on the corner with Alexandra Road on the left.

Christ Church, Brockham was built in 1846 and sits proudly in the centre of the village.

Behind is the wooded western spur of Conegar on the side of Chapel Hill, and medieval St Catherine's Chapel (left) with Portland projecting beyond.

By a boat jib, our eye is led across Bosham creek, within Chichester harbour, towards the moored boats and the buildings on the far bank.

The estate agent's office (right) was subsequently a bank branch and is now a florist's shop, while the post office, outside which stand three self-conscious young girls, has been transformed into a private

A settlement since the Iron Age, with the Romans and Anglo-Saxons leaving artefacts as evidence of their time at Bourton, the village uses its river as a focal point for such activities as setting the

We are looking from the west end of Market Hill into Friars Street.

Hilton's shop is still a boot and shoe shop, but Mr O'Connor is the owner.

This is the old heart of the village. The old King's Arms opened in 1749, and opposite is the Black Bull, dating back to 1758.

This scene is a contrast with the one seven years earlier, when the town packed into the Market Place to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

On the left, the library has become the health centre, and the ex-servicemen`s club is closed, but Lloyds Bank is still open.

One of Windsor's most famous view shows the town's bridge in the distance, which was erected in 1822.

On the left are Harry Webber, hairdresser, in the former Oakes Bank of 1885, the International Stores (Frederick Riches was manager), who traded here from 1909 to 1976, and Eccleston's, draper and grocers

The flower gardens have been replaced by a one-way system. The Castle Hotel once stood on the left-hand side, but today there is a National Westminster Bank on this corner.

Between Richmond and Kew, on the Surrey bank, are the three hundred acres of the Royal Botanical Gardens, opened to the public in 1841.

Kingsdown stands on the coast where the white cliffs of Dover give way to the extensive shingle beach that runs eastwards to Walmer & Deal. Caesar is said to have landed in this vicinity in 55BC.

Named after the field on which it was built, Leys Avenue was, even in 1960, a busy shopping thoroughfare.

Opposite Foale's butchery was the Naval Bank, which eventually became Maypole Corner with its glitzy gilt and glass signboard.

This marvellous scene shows a Wrexham that has since lost some of its unified Victorian and Edwardian streetscapes with its banks and traditional shop fronts.

The popular Complete Angler Hotel lies on the Berkshire bank and looks out across the Thames to Marlow.

Further development southwards was held up and the architectural variety shows this.