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On the right is a fine display of baskets and tinware, although the street was known at one time for its slaughter houses.

Maffey's has gone, and is now a private house with a portico. All the buildings beyond it have been demolished and replaced with modern development.

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.William Cobbett was equally fulsome, maintaining that Botley had everything in it

It is also here that Stoke-on-Trent's world-famous collection of Staffordshire figures, pottery, porcelain and ceramics are housed in a superb museum.

We are looking westwards to the Victorian skyline of Westgate and along the cliffs to Ledge Point.At the time this picture was taken,Tower House Retreat at Westgate, founded in 1879, was the only

White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.

Three public houses in the photograph are still in business: the Express, the Anchor Inn and the Vulcan are virtually unchanged.

Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

The old Post Office is now a house and the front gardens have been lost owing to the widening of the very busy road.

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

The view is up Main Street, westward from the bridge over the River Winniford (right), to Chideock House Restaurant and the Castle Inn.

Note the small white one, whose chimney indicates that it was a wash house.

The only person on the street is a girl holding a baby by the house opposite the barn.

The new site of the bandstand still remains close to Clare House Bridge (see 82781). This picture was taken from the bridge steps.

The bus stop outside the Britannia public house is for bus numbers 26, 26A, 39 and 40; opposite, a No 26 bus heads for Gravesend.

There is a mixture of housing from thatched and tiled to prefabricated postwar styles. The post office is also a 'Savings Bank' and 'Money Order Office'.

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

Tenby has observed the weather for the Meteorological Office since 1892, and the tower still houses the sunshine meter.

In the post-war period the provision of Local Authority housing increased to meet the demands of a rising population.

It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

It is now a house, though it had continued working until 1960, grinding wholemeal for a Chelmsford health-food company.

The house, which measures 10 x 6 feet, has two rooms, and was once occupied by a rather tall man of 6ft 3ins! The wall has since been removed.

Oast houses like these can be seen in the east and middle of the county; they were used for storing hops, which were dried before being despatched to the local brewery.