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So, instead of opting for a sensitive pedestrian and architecture-friendly scheme, the area is now transformed into a peculiarly urban landscape, half car park and half odd seating which one would hesitate

There were three pubs - the Royal Oak and the King's Head on the High Street, roughly where their namesakes are today, and the Clarence Arms (now the Park Hotel) on Park Road.

It is now part of Ealing and West London College. At the right are the walls to Walpole Park. Next door is St Mary's, one of the village's original 18th-century houses.

In the High Street there are a few parked cars, but no pedestrians, apart from the two women and a child in the doorway on the right.

The site is now occupied by a supermarket, which may or may not have greater social benefit, and sick children are catered for at Arrowe Park Hospital, with the reassuring backup of Alder Hey in

regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to Bradgate Park

Here we see one of the most popular parts of the Exhibition, the Tobogganing Slide. This attraction stayed when the Exhibition closed and the site became White City Amusement Park. As

Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor. The pavement is up and men are busy in front of Burden's shop.

on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used as a car park

The Commonwealth Institute, with its forest of flag poles each flying the flag of a Commonwealth nation, occupies what was most of the southern end of Holland Park.

The north side of the Market Place (still a car park) was dominated by the Co-op, which expanded into the right-hand corner building of 1898. The statue in the niche on the left is of Byron.

The Swan Hotel acquired a multi-level car park to its rear (its first concession to the age of the motor car) and the erstwhile car showrooms at the northern end of Town Bridge were demolished and replaced

A Jaguar XJ is emerging from this road into the main one as an Austin A40 Farina manoeuvres into a parking space on the other side (left).

The tall three- storey building remains, now an Oxfam shop, while all beyond the towering Baptist Church on the left has since been demolished and is now the entrance to the car parks formed between

Motorists were few in the 1950s, and parking appears to be available for anyone at the kerbside.

The trees and park on the left across the road are the salient from the common into the suburbia of Lower Ashtead.

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

This is still very much the age of the bicycle, as we can see from all those parked two-wheelers.

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.

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

Taken from Winney Hill, this photograph looks over Harthill in the northerly direction of Kiveton Park collieries.