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The first ones started running in 1923, and carried on until 1963.

The Maxim Flying Machine is operating, and several of its gondolas can be seen whizzing round and round.

Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.

A lot of London companies relocated, such as Cossor's - they made cathode ray tubes and radar screens, essential elements in the war effort.

Cheltenham is (rather self consciously) the capital of the Cotswolds; it stands in the Vale under the western escarpment.

The lane winds gently down between stone banks towards this picturesque fishing village of white-washed cottages and bright spring flowers.

In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.

This large, late 19th-century factory is still in production with brands including Rigby and Peller of London.

At the east end of the town is Alford Mill, a six-storey, five-sail mill built in 1813 by Sam Oxley, an Alford millwright.

Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney bridge from the dockyards at the end of a wortking day. It resembles scene from Lowry. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the distant background.

Perhaps the best-known feature of Burnsall is its magnificent, five-arched stone bridge across the River Wharfe, seen here from the river.

Pardey & Johnson traded from the gabled building on the left. Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture.

The photographer was standing towards the northern end of Hagley Road, looking towards Stourbridge.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

Carriages standing in front of an imposing line of banks, taverns and offices epitomise bustle, trade and commerce.

The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

In medieval times, Great Yarmouth was walled on three sides, with just the river side open.

Whilst some parts of the Norfolk coast have suffered badly from erosion over the years, Cley next the Sea has suffered from precisely the opposite.

Cinema in 1960 was still a popular form of entertainment, though television and the opportunities opened up by private car ownership were both beginning to make inroads.

From early Victorian times, Punch and Judy shows moved away from the fairgrounds and streets and on to the beach in pursuit of lucrative new audiences.

The west tower, the church's most important feature, is Anglo-Saxon of the mid 11th-century.

Henry Blogg, coxswain of the 'Louisa Heartwell', pictured here, was the most decorated lifeboatman in Britain, earning three gold and four silver medals, the George Cross and the British Empire medal for

When the Ship Canal opened in 1894, traffic really was a mixed bag of sailing ships, steam ships and motor vessels. Here we see the docks with a mixed array of vessels just a year after opening.

At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed. The walls once surrounded both the castle and Clifford's Tower.