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This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

The land for the park was given by Lt Col Cross, who lived in a large and impressive house at the Red Scar.

But because of the enormous growth in London traffic during the Victorian era, it was dismantled in 1878, and was acquired by Sir Henry Meux as the entrance to the family estate at Theobald's Park.

The twin towers have been an inspiring sporting symbol since the stadium was built in 1923 as part of the British Empire Exhibition.

Wells furnishers were related to the brewing family of the same name; the Green Chair sign over the shop is intended as a hark back to the craftsman guilds of medieval times.

Tudor dream; but his buildings have survived the building of the New Town, and his name is preserved in Howard Crescent, where examples of his residential development can still be seen, and in Howard Park

This shopping centre holds three large stores, over 40 shops and parking for 800 cars. Yet it has been slipped in behind the frontage of the High Street without any disturbance.

Fact File (David Brooks) New houses in Clarendon Park, where Long Grove Hospital stood.

It was truly a sylvan approach to Bedford Park. On the left are typical late Victorian houses; the one on the far left, No 67, is now the Bedford School Study Centre.

The 450-acre Finningley Park Estate was sold in 1935, and within a year a new RAF airstrip was built on its flat land.

The barn itself is no longer agricultural, and has been added to the restaurant: nowadays it offers 'The Family Welcome', and there is a huge car park to the right of this view.

Moving north-west from Albert Park to the Faringdon Road, the town tour finishes at the School of St Helen and St Katherine, as it is now named.

The cross dates from the 15th century (it was restored in 2003), while Mr Waller, head gardener at Ackworth Park, built the shelter in the late 1930s.

After a succession of owners and tenants, the estate was sold to Featherstone Council in 1930 for £3,600, after which it was used as the Town Hall and a public park.

Ancillary businesses included a newsagent, a butcher, a baker and the post office (where the white van is parked), as well as the builder R O Ayres, who proudly advertises his telephone number on his

There are excellent parking facilities for vehicles in this part of the High Street.

The arrival of modern motor-traffic over subsequent decades means this generous space is now more often used as a crowded car park, and on the Spring Bank Holiday as the setting for an annual

This view is in the grounds, now a public park, of Ousebank House, a fine late 17th-century brick house with giant pilasters. It is now occupied by the British Legion.

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

The arrival of modern motor-traffic over subsequent decades means this generous space is now more often used as a crowded car park, and on the Spring Bank Holiday as the setting for an annual Pilgrims

Cavendish Road, which runs from Brighton Road east to Langley Park Road, is a good example of the earlier phases of suburban growth in Sutton.

Originally it was only served by a Congregational Chapel, but later acquired an Anglican church, St Peter the Apostle, seen here from a field, now a car park, and a Church of England primary school.