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This part of the village has not changed: the Ship pub is still there on the right, and the line of little shops still stands on the left, but all with different owners.

This photograph was probably taken from the top of the big wheel, something no longer possible. Most of this area had been redeveloped after the 1953 storm, and it has since been redeveloped again.

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Lake Windermere.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.

This bustling scene offers a microcosm of life a century ago. Though it seems we are looking back into an era long past, already the trams are electric-powered.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.

Built in 1870, this was one of the many West Yorkshire institutes to offer working craftsmen the opportunity to study new skills and learn more about the world.

The cobble-edged wide Market Place of Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, is still the setting for a market every Wednesday, just as it has been since medieval times.

There are a few traces left from the early 14th century, but the main parts of the church are Perpendicular, from the second half of the 15th century. The west window was installed in 1893.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, was involved in the initial construction in the mid 11th century, and it is probable that Serlo, Abbot of Gloucester from 1072, did the strengthening work.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

This view of the parade is taken from the junction with Fox Hollies Road, at the opposite end to photograph No A136028.

Stanway Road was created in the 1930s along with several other roads in the area, and is absolutely typical of the development which took place at that time.

Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.

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

The letters BH on the fishing boat indicate Brixham registry.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time of this photograph.

In the background are the former tram sheds, converted to house Saltaire's complement of trolleybuses.

The Godolphins were prominent in the affairs of Helston until the line died out with the 2nd earl in the late 18th century.

The Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.

Gravesend is a busy industrial town on the river Thames; here the river narrows to become a London river, and coastal pilots hand over to the river men.