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The gable end of the lifeboat house is seen in the background, almost at the end of the road through the village.

The clock tower dominates the main street of the West Cumberland town.

Boulters Lock is one of the most famous landmarks on the River Thames, and during the Victorian and Edwardian periods drew large crowds of visitors in search of peaceful recreation.

Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

Great Haywood lies at the junction of the Trent & Mersey with the Staffs & Worcestershire canals.

Sandhurst has expanded enormously in the second half of the 20th century.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

A mixture of craft lie alongside the jetty awaiting to load.

Like Yarmouth, Lowestoft is a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort; holiday-makers came here as the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

This statue of Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) stands outside the Bank of Ireland (formerly the Parliament House) and shows the great orator in the act of speaking.

To a current inhabitant, the most striking feature of this view is the absence of houses in the centre.

The clock tower dominates the main street of the West Cumberland town.

Luton had experienced modernization in local government, with the Board of Health taking over key responsibilities involving water supply, care of the poor and the establishment of a regular

Now Southampton's Archaeological Museum, this used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and powder stored here.

The Plain, as it is known, lies just to the east of Magdalen Bridge, representing the boundaries of the old city. Here the Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

Tom Tower is one of the college's most treasured architectural features, as well as a famous landmark on the Oxford skyline.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site. The heavily restored medieval tower is all that remains.

Above the junction of Castlegate and Parsons Lane is the keep of Clitheroe Castle, which was founded under Roger de Poitou shortly after William seized the throne from Harold.

Ladies Walk was laid out in 1785 by the Enclosure Award Commissioners in conjunction with the Corporation of Andover.

Here we see a change of pace compared to some of the previous pictures: the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and the road is heaving with traffic. 1955 was a year of newspaper and dock strikes;

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy