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Sophia Gardens can be regarded as the city's first public park.

Just out of picture at right is the tiny kiosk renowned locally for its Sunday opening - a rarity at this time and a perfect place for ice cream on route to Roath Park.

There are quite a number of cars parked in the narrow street in front of Harry and Alfred Kilminsters automobile engineering works (right), which specialized in car electrical repairs.

The wide streets, stone buildings and the war memorial in the centre of Langley Park look much the same today.

The park is now partly occupied by a golf course, picnic sites and nature trails.

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

The bold black-and-white half-timbering of G Sedgwick's draper and outfitters shop in the centre of the picture (the owners are proudly standing outside) is in marked contrast to the same shop which can

An increasing use of motor vehicles means that a car park is needed.

Here we have another view of the pavilion and miniature golf course at Fleming Park, where there were also football, rugby and hockey pitches and tennis courts.

This archway and wall date back over two hundred years; it is known as Gannock Gate, and forms part of a huge park known as The Walks, where it was the perfect place for fashionable folk

Luton's dependence on a good supply of fully trained technicians and tradesmen meant that the old Technical School was transferred from Park Square (now the site of Luton University) to this site on the

By the 1950s cars were already a problem on the streets of Lyme, because of the lack of parking spaces. Present-day Lyme bans traffic from the sea front.

This graceful ornamental fountain was erected in 1875 at the southern end of Park Lane at the junction with Hamilton Place.

Queens Road, at the top of Park Street, was chosen as the site for both the City Art Gallery and the City Museum.

Weston Park also houses the City Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery. The museum contains a collection of cutlery dating from the 16th century and the world's finest collection of Sheffield plate.

This is very much an archive photograph, for only the bank on the left survives from 1890: Queen Victoria's statue, commemorating her Golden Jubilee of 1887, was moved to the abbey park in 1946, while

The area in the foreground is today a large amusement park.

The car park, the gardener tending the flowers on the fountain, the well-used bench beside it - all these are signs of civic pride and the wish to attract visitors to the city.

In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

The quality of life for the inhabitants continued to improve with the provision of many fine public buildings and parks.

Despite the cars, though, the delivery men could still find a parking space to service the numerous, and sadly missed, local shops.

In this picture the 15th-century spire of St Nicholas's church overlooks the park, which incorporates the tree-lined drive to the former vicarage, demolished in 1970.

During the reign of Henry V (1413-22), several pools were constructed, probably for the Earl of Warwick, in what was later to become Sutton Park. Wyndley Pool was almost certainly one of them.

When the area enclosed by the Inner Circle was returned to the park, it was laid out afresh as Queen Mary's Gardens in honour of the Queen and King George V's Silver Jubilee.