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In 1891 the first experiments in England using overhead wiring for electric trams took place on the Roundhay Park route.

Horning is blessed with a wealth of reed-thatched cottages with eyebrowed dormers, as well as other more unusual buildings - the house alongside where the car is parked has crow-stepped gables, revealing

The site of the old gate is now a car park.

The handsome triple-arched gateway, with its classical screen and groups of Ionic columns, was intended originally to create a noble approach to the Park from Buckingham Palace.

The town's War Memorial Park includes a 150-mm Japanese gun captured in Burma at the end of World War Two.

These long timber-framed ranges remain, the space between now filled with pub tables and benches, while the rear of the yard is now the hotel car park.

These long timber-framed ranges remain, the space between now filled with pub tables and benches, while the rear of the yard is now the hotel car park.

The Pig and Whistle, now called Quinneys, was a popular stopping place along the route and needed its large car park to accommodate the many vehicles that pulled in.

The town has recovered its air of prosperity after the hardships and shortages of the war years, and its growing affluence is demonstrated by the number of cars parked beside the pavements.

Standing in the sylvan setting of Lulworth Park, the parish church of St Andrew's at East Lulworth has an impressive 15th-century tower that predates nearby Lulworth Castle.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

On the right, outside the post office selling Park Drive cigarettes, there is an old-style red telephone box, and beyond it two village shops.

His statue has been in Manningham Park, Bradford since 1875. In recent years the house has been used as an old peoples' home by Bradford

Here we see some horse-drawn carriages, including a street cleaner's cart, parked outside the Parish Church of St John Baptist.

Later, the level of some of the surrounding land was raised, and Victoria Park was opened in 1908.

We can see Coronation Park in the foreground - the flowerbeds were later grassed over.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

The architecture of Raynes Park is in general suburban and undistinguished. This view looks northwest along Coombe Lane, with a bus turning left into West Barnes Lane.

Streetly is a residential community built alongside the Roman road known as Ryknild Street, traces of which can still be seen in Sutton Park.

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; it was also the year in which parking

There is a bowling green at the Town's large sports park.

A ladies' bowls match is in progress in the peaceful setting of Zetland Park, at the start of the Coast Road to Marske.

The former private gardens of the residents of Palmyra Square were purchased in 1897 as a park to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, and were opened to the public on the 17th of October 1898.

striking feature in the grounds of York House, were purchased in Rome in the late 19th century by the city financier Whitaker Wright - intended for the grotto room under the lake at his Witley Park