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The bridge in the foreground of this photograph leads over the River Leven to a car park designated for the use of patrons of Suggitts ice cream parlour, something of an institution in

Benjamin Bucknell, the architect who designed Woodchester Park, was born in the village of Rodborough.

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

The now vanished Gough Monument, which used to stand in Phoenix Park. The statue's head and sword arm were sawn off in 1944 and the mutilated remains were bombed twice, in 1956 and 1957.

Parking is beginning to present a problem.The numerous projecting first floor bay windows give period atmosphere and character to the street.

Parking is beginning to present a problem. The numerous projecting first floor bay windows give period atmosphere and character to the street.

The edge of the river was soon marked out for free parking. Note the hut spanning the mill race.

Sherborne Park separated the village into east and west ends back in the 14th century, but there is a uniformity throughout of well restored cottages, fronted by long well stocked gardens and bounded by

Sir Henry Thompson, son of a vice admiral and curate of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, helped to found Holy Trinity Church in West Street, as well as church schools in Park Lane and Fontley

Before becoming a municipal park, these grounds were a nursery and market garden, whose business included the growing of liquorice plants.

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

A room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d, with dinner at 6s a head, which put it in the same price as the Grand in Cornwall Road, but more expensive than the West Park, where rooms were from 3s, and dinner

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from RAF Chilmark nearby.

On the left is Reigate Park. Today there is substantially more traffic.

As well as public parks and memorial gardens, Aldershot is famous for its enormous open-air swimming pool, which covers an acre and can hold a million gallons of water.

Even at this time it was difficult to find a parking space here. The van was registered in East Sussex in 1962.

The Weir Hotel was well used by motorists, as we can see from the many cars parked outside.

The cenotaph can be seen to the left of centre of the park, which is on Market Street. The memorial is dedicated to Whitworth men who died in the two World Wars.

This church in busy Marylebone Road is best seen as the climax of a vista from Regent's Park opposite. The architect was Thomas Hardwick, and work was completed in 1817.

Here we see one of the inscribed stones, restored for the centenary of the park in 1993.

Anybody standing today in approximately the same position as the photographer would see nothing more than a couple of dreary buildings and one of the Kingfisher Centre's multi-storey car parks.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of the Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.

Daimler taxis are parked outside the Bull Hotel (left) and the Town Hall clock is at noon (centre0 which is borne out by the shadows from the south and shop blinds shading the windows.

The iron railings probably went for wartime salvage, and a part of the gardens disappeared to make way for car parking.