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The university really put Glasgow on the map, although it had a hard struggle to get fully established.

A few hundred yards along the present B1514 road past the turning to Pepys House, the road forks at the roundabout where the main road runs eastwards towards the A14 and the left road takes us

The Hotel was popular and a cab was even provided to transport guests from the railway, a distance of no more than a few hundred yards!

This side of the harbour had been the shipbuilding yard in Bridport creek. Elias Cox was the last major boat-builder. Chalets would be built across the site.

The build- ing on the right is the Midland Bank; between it and the church- yard is a narrow passage, now called Church Lane, leading to the south door of the church.

The church is in a commanding position 75 yards from the water's edge, which at one time covered all the land at its base, even where the cottages in the picture have been built.

Three years prior to the date of this photograph, an Australian visitor claimed that for its six hundred inhabitants there were five licensed premises along two hundred yards of Wrecclesham's main street

However, in early 2004 the whole area looked like a builders' yard. The traffic islands and the roads were being replaced by a brick surface.

Just a few yards up the hill from All Saints' Church, Barn Hill is a far cry from the commercial bustle of Red Lion Square.

A local agent, collecting from the goods yard? Or even collecting sub-contract work from Shapland & Petter?

The upper deck offered the opportunity for a 300-yard stroll around the outside of the main auditorium, while listening to a brass band.

The horse-drawn tram system terminated here, but a walk of a few yards brought one to the steam-engine-driven Cavehill & Whitewell Company's trams.

Built of red Ruaben brick, and covering 3,500 square yards, the hospital has two striking terracotta reliefs at the front, 'Christ healing the blind' and 'Elymas struck blind', which were made by Mr Holding

However, in early 2004 the whole area looked like a builders' yard. The traffic islands and the roads were being replaced by a brick surface.

The family built a large town house on King Street.They also built a large warehouse, and Sudell Court and Sudell's Yard appeared round it.

Sett-paved yards (right) withstood iron-shod cart wheels. Villagers grew barley, fruit and vegetables, whilst the village shop supplied everything from treacle to paraffin oil.

The upper deck offered the opportunity for a 300-yard stroll around the outside of the main auditorium, while listening to a brass band.

Next door is the overhanging 16th-century frontage of the White Hart Inn, with its impressive arch leading into the stable yard. The hotel was closed and converted into shops in the early 1930s.

The bakery was situated in the yard behind. The Conservative Club (right) opened here in 1907 in the house built in 1781 by Benjamin Webb, a former headmaster of Odiham Grammar School.

Castle Yard c1965.

The branch railway from Weymouth to Portland (left) was built westwards from Weymouth railway yard (centre right) in 1862 and opened in 1865.

She survived until January 1953, when she proceeded under her own steam to the breaker's yard.

Upstream, a few hundred yards before the river reaches the churchyard, the ford over the river is jealously guarded by the village ducks, geese and swans, who challenge pedestrians and motorists; usually

soup kitchens, but there are records of the children of the island waiting expectantly outside the shipyard gates to ask the workers for any food they might have had left over after they came out of the yard