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Seaforth, Bootle, Crosby, Brighton-le-Sands, Blundell Sands and Formby were easier to reach along the firm sand during the wet winter months.

Due to the frequent heavy seas and sudden squalls, this flimsy-looking structure was often washed away, and a boat had to be launched to recover it from Bootle Bay.

The twin entrance booths to the West Pier are visible. Only the one on the right survives. Note the fishing boats out at sea beyond the left-hand toll-booth.

This photograph shows a full-size Punch and Judy booth, much wider than many of the booths used these days.

Having your photograph taken was part of a holiday, and these booths would take your photograph and turn out six or twelve copies in about an hour.

Yates's map of 1786 shows that there was a toll booth between the road junctions.

Hiding much of the castle keep is the Toll Booth.

Hiding much of the castle keep is the Toll Booth.

Once this area was the entrance to Ludlow's market, with traders paying tolls at the nearby Tolsey (or toll booth).

The building on the right is the Booth Hall, also known as the Round House, perhaps so called because it was possible to walk all round it without obstruction.

Situated on a hill overlooking the town, Christ Church, or the Jesse Haworth Memorial Church, was designed by Lawrence Booth and built in the late 1880s.

Clustering with other booths and stalls under the pier is Wright's 'Noted Tea Saloon'. In the foreground is a tiny carriage pulled by a pair of goats.

It was cheaper to shop in Tunstall than to go to Hanley by road, as there were three toll booths to get through.

Gone are the market stalls and booths of an earlier era. Here are the vans and accoutrements of a modern thriving market town, utilising the fronts of the Georgian buildings.

The church of St James in Stanstead Abbots contains a monument to Sir Felix Booth (1775-1850); in 1829 he set out in the 'Endeavour' to find the North-West Passage, but discovered instead

In those days the Harrop family appear to have played a major role in the industry of the hamlet; there was James Harrop & Sons, drysalters and oil dealers, and Harrop Booth & Co, woollen cloth manufacturers

In the days when the Reverend William Downes was rector, and William Wilkinson kept the Leeds Arms, local farmers included Joseph Booth, Jonathan Marshall, Maude Thomas, John Shirt and Thomas Stanland.

Here we look beyond the licensed donkey ride man, the helter-skelter and beach fun fair, the bathing machines and the booths towards the then splendid pier.

The river is crossed on a toll bridge; this view shows the toll gate and cottage, the former now replaced by a booth and barrier ten yards beyond.

Notice the white ticket booth beside the ramp. Today there is a proper building on the opposite side of the path where you buy your tickets.

Here we look beyond the licensed donkey ride man, the helter-skelter and beach fun fair, the bathing machines and the booths towards the then splendid pier.

It was cheaper to shop in Tunstall than to go to Hanley by road, as there were three toll booths to get through.

The ground floor served as a row of individual butcher's booths - it is just possible to make out the meat hooks above the two windows on the left.

Booth's shop, beyond the signpost, marks the beginning of Stockerston Road.