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This view looks south down the High Street past a motor bike with its acetylene headlamp towards the old Market House with its cupola.

It was a co-educational school until the Girls' County School was built further down Buttrills Road.

It is rather surprising that most of the buildings in the shot have survived, although generally in a down-graded form. The bushes on the right have gone, to be replaced by shops.

This shows the town, the railway and the headland. The first station had been provided only 20 years before.

It was built mainly in the 12th to the 14th centuries, but exhibits work of every period down to the present day.

The huge cedar tree towering over the 'New Laid Eggs' sign was blown down by a gale in the 1970s.

Much of the pulled-down abbey found its way into the church, including the misericords.

The two Llanwenarths were joined by a rope ferry, which closed down in 1951. From the churchyard there is a magnificent view of the Blorenge mountain.

It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens. It was once a strategic seaport, where coasters transhipped their cargoes into fenland lighters.

Horse-drawn ambulances, taxi cabs, flat wagons, and even a horse bus were used to convey the patients down to the new Royal Infirmary on Oxford Road.

Along with Deal and Sandown, Walmer was one of the 'Three Castles which keep the Downs'.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Above the third vehicle, making its way down the High Street towards the junction, is the sign of the original Harrow Inn, which was demolished in 1934 and replaced by the present building.

On the left, next to the Lloyd's Bank branch, is the fashion shop of Renee Shaw, with Fuller's tea shop, Dewhurst's the butcher's, and John's menswear shop further down the hill.

They had blacked-up faces and wore a sort of clown outfit with pom-poms down the front. They played twice daily on the beach.

The Walmer Stores in the centre of this photo has its blinds down.

The High Street, fashioned in the 1930s, drops down to the original village centre, with the graveyard to St Martins church on the immediate right.

The area around Glasson is teaming with wildlife, and is a bird watcher's paradise from Conder Green down to Cockerham Sands in the south. Swans and ducks live in the canal basin.

Green from the far side.The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down

During the Second World War, Mrs Armitage, who had taken to using her pony and trap to save petrol, would tie the pony up to the pump when she came down to the village to shop, never mind

Coal was imported down to the mid 20th century – we can see a small Dutch coaster discharging her cargo, with coal heaped on the quayside (centre).

This view is looking down from the road bridge; things have changed greatly at Sandy.

This attractive view is little changed today, except that the Green, predictably, is kept close-mown now, and woe betide any daisy that shows its head.

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.