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Queen's Park provided them with an opportunity to escape from the grit and the grime. In the 1960s facilities were upgraded with the construction of a sports stadium and a running track.

still is, though the engines are somehow less utilitarian and more convincingly based on steam locomotives - the best one is 'Ruston' The train now hauls visitors around within the high-fenced zoo park

They are still beautiful today, and the park is well tended, but the Council has reluctantly closed the hothouses and outbuildings due to vandalism.

Unfortunately, he died before this could be achieved, but part of his plan was to make improvements to the Park. Handbridge Castle was one of them.

However, the horse and carriage parked outside shows there was still a demand from the equestrian trade.

A green lung in the centre of the town, the park was given to Whitby by Alderman Pannett.

On the extreme right, the Green Man pub sign advertises its car park facilities, with Dunfold's bakery and Hodges the draper's and outfitter's shop just beyond.

Hall Leys Park and Pleasure Gardens were created when the riverside site, formerly water meadows, was purchased by the town council in 1889.

Parking was not a problem in 1923. Notice the pitched paving in front of Parade House (left), where stones are embedded between 6in and 18in deep, a method used in the county.

A charming village scene that has scarcely changed at all in over 30 years.The old war-time nissen hut, at one time such a familiar sight in the British countryside, has gone, replaced by a car park

Further along Park Street we find Lower Gordon Road; the Post Office, run by a Mr H L Love, is on the corner. The premises have since been converted into a private house.

This view looks across to Crickley Hill, which is now designated a country park.

An interesting view from the south bank of the Thames looking east, before Christchurch Meadows on the left were made into a riverside park, and, more significantly, before Reading Bridge was built

From the Terrace there is a magnificent view to the north, looking out over Eton and the Home Park to the Chilterns in the far distance.

The first avenue of trees was planted in the park during 1753.

The Shepherd's Inn to the right is little changed today, though its car park has been extended to cater for the increase in motor traffic.

It is interesting to note that the old market place was being overtaken by cars as early as 1950, and parking was obviously already a problem.

The statue of King Alfred, erected in 1877, looks down on a car park taken over every Wednesday and Saturday by market stalls.

An Austin A35 and a Morris Minor are parked outside the Devonshire Arms public house in the centre of the village.

The railing and trees on the right are part of Brockwell Park, and the shops on the far side are under the Herne Hill to Tulse Hill railway line.

An interesting range of cars and vans occupy the car park.

The late Victorian buildings opposite survive, although sadly they have had all their windows replaced, and Green's on the right is now the Park Tavern.

A delivery van is parked outside Yellow Cottage.

As this village is at the far north of the Rhondda it is not too far from the Brecon National Park, famous for its rivers and waterfalls, carving out the limestone country.