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The currents and eddies in this part of the Menai Strait can be treacherous. HMS 'Conway' was a training ship run by the Mercantile Marine Services to train officer cadets.

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this photograph, which was taken looking towards the 2,403ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

The thatched boathouses in the background and on the left of the photograph are still in excellent repair, but a few of the trees have been felled.

Two small boys can be seen riding along on the pavement by the George Hotel. The pub is still there today, and so is what is known as the Desborough Cross to the right of it.

Road improvements in the 1960s swept away these stone houses to make way for the greater convenience of the motorist. The mature cyclist is about to free-wheel into the High Street off to the right.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.

The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman's.

The Lockwood Beck Reservoir is situated at the junction of the A171 Guisborough-to-Whitby moor road with the road to Castleton.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

St Mawes is one of the coastal defence castles built by Henry VIII in the 1540s. It has a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

Of the fine climate of Colwyn Bay there can be no doubt whatsoever. Flowers bloom here until well on towards Christmas, and are out again in some profusion in February.

Thanks to the absence of the railway, this charming little spot retains much of its primitive simplicity.

On the right is the Wesleyan Chapel. John Wesley visited Newark on six occasions between 1743 and 1788.

In those days the Frith cameraman would be under instructions not to take the picture until the view was relatively free of traffic and pedestrians.

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

Mock Gothic turrets were added, a profusion of sharply arched windows and much other sham detailing. To many the stupendous structure had the look of an ornate medieval castle.

‘The newest fashion newspaper and the oldest-style tavern still jostle each other now as they did a century or more ago.’This bustling street was once the home of the British press.The working day

The royal coach heads out across the courtyard of the Palace bound for The Mall. A throng of carriages waits to join the procession across London.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

This Accrington brick school was opened on 26 April 1893 and among its impressive facilities was a huge weaving room.

Bute Town (Drenewydd), on the top left-hand side, was modelled after a rural Cumbrian village.

Looking north to the church a sense of nostalgia is created by the old style 'T' junction road sign.