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Since then it has become a full blooded tourist attraction, set in its 500 acre park. This view shows the Courtyard and the main entrance to the Castle.

The car park is still on the left, and the gallows sign is still over the road. Between the sign and St Mary's Church is the Town Bridge over the river Welland.

To the right are the trees of Thompson Park — it was fortunately among them that Burnley's only Second World War bomb fell.

This town, known to its inhabitants as 'Mach', is situated at the far north-west corner of Powys, so distant that it is also in the Snowdonia National Park and just ten miles from the sea.

The Palm Court was well named, and the Parks Department were rightly proud of their showpiece.

This is another viewpoint on the Edge, from which it is usually possible to see the Cage in Lyme Park.

Almost all these fields, except those with the car-park and caravans, are now owned by the National Trust.

It opened in 1884, and Dormans Park was laid out with houses in treed plots - the roads are still gravelled.

Upstream, this more rural view was taken by Frith's photographer from opposite Abbey Meadows (now a park), looking east to Abingdon Lock on the far right and the Thames weir between it and

The town is considered the gateway to the moors and forests of the Northumberland National Park, and the Pennine Way also passes through the town.

We can see two church towers on the horizon: to the left is the 1860 West Park United Reformed church, and behind the trees, looking out over the site of Harrogate's first railway station,

No doubt the veteran motorcycle parked on its stand outside would certainly, these days, fetch a considerable sum if offered for sale inside this establishment.

Warsash is situated near Hamble and Park Gate. Straight ahead is the clock tower; this was a water tower supplying Warsash House, which King Edward VII used to visit when he was Prince of Wales.

The parked lorry belongs to Jones & Co, Corn and Seed Merchant; perhaps it is more than mere coincidence that a transport café is just across the road.

Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

Sadly, every brick and tile has gone, to make space in true Wigston style for an open car park.

This area is now the main car park for visitors. One of the gondolas from the big wheel at Blackpool ended its life as a cafe here, and stood just to the right of our picture.

It looks like a good solid Silver Cross pram parked outside the tobac- conist's on the left of our photograph.

Most of the buildings have gone, and on the site of the clock tower there is now a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities.

Henry Bell, who became a Provost of the burgh, designed and built the steamboat 'Comet'; an obelisk to him stands on the Esplanade, and the flywheel from the 'Comet' is preserved in Hermitage Park.

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

Set off the main road, this square accommodates considerably more parked cars today.

This disappeared in 1997, replaced by a pretty park. The Post Office has gone, and the Westward Ho! based Buckleigh Laundry is now called Buckleigh Linen Service.

This building is no longer operating as a guest house; the caravan and camping park is now the main business, and it has had an indoor swimming pool since about 1980.