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The neatly mown lawns and carefully maintained flowerbeds surrounding Cheam Park House are viewed from the vantage point above the porticoed entrance; we are looking down onto the sweeping gravelled drive

One of the highly successful Austin Minis is parked in the foreground.

This is one of the classic views of the Lake District; it is now used by the modern National Park Authority as its logo.

Many houses carry the shield of the Ancaster family, for this was an estate village from the 1760s until 1925, when the Normanton Park Estate of the Earl of Ancaster was sold and dispersed.

The tall chimney rises from Park Mill, whose mules still operated in the early 1980s. Buildings in the foreground now house the fascinating Helmshore Textile Museum.

The park was an essential element of Victorian town development, and here is centred on a memorial to those killed in the South African wars.

The left bank was marshy meadow, but was bought by the council in 1907 and is now a public park with a popular riverside promenade.

1997 saw the park mark its centenary in style with celebrations that recalled its Victorian origins.

The store that was Bridge's shop in W305026 (pages 68-69) is now five years later run by F Park. Today it is a Victoria Wine shop.

Stagenhoe Park to the north-east of the villages was the home of Sir Arthur Sullivan.

In the Fifties, for those who had cars, it was easy to drive into London, especially on a Sunday, and park in Exhibition Road.

Berry Head is the southern limit of Torbay, and a country park as well. A hundred years ago, it was being used by people for recreation purposes (left) and nautical types too (right).

Taken from the corner of Arrowe Park Road, this photograph is looking east along The Village.

A Mini is parked outside the Red Lion pub on the right. Does it belong to the barmaid? Today there are a variety of shops in Milford on Sea, ranging from a convenience store to a hairdresser's.

The central area, with car park and bus shelter, was redesigned in 2002. On the left is the Georgian-fronted White Hart Hotel.

As an illustration of just how far we have civilised ourselves over the past fifty years, consider the following: cycles are parked against the kerb and outside the cycle shop without security.

The National Provincial Bank on the right is now the post office, while the shops on the left have since been demolished to make way for a car park.

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

The ducks and geese forage for food near the bird-table in the foreground, whilst across the water perch the imposing residences of Roath Park and modern Cynwed.

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

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

Sham timbered lodges and a refreshment pavilion graced the newly-laid-out park, and mature trees retained from the Abbey Fields formed an essential part of the emparkment scheme.

Although the park has been municipalised, it is an essential green lung which must never be forfeited to any so-called development pressures under any circumstances.

A car park has now been added.