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From the early days of caravan parks, it soon became apparent that visitors wanted the sites to become 'one stop shops' incorporating shopping and entertainment.

At 6.00pm on August Bank Holiday Monday 1908, Romilly Park Bowling Club's green opened for play.

Two years before this photograph was taken, Reading Corporation was persuaded that Prospect Park should be bought 'for the benefit of weary workers who, when at rest, need some open space where communion

Courtenay Street and Courtenay Park are named in their honour.

Courtenay Street and Courtenay Park are named in their honour.

Coronation Park was a gift to the town from C H Gillbard in 1937.

It is now a country park.

The Golden Sands were of course only exposed at low tide beyond the shingle, but as a name for the beach it was a winner, combined with plentiful parking on the greensward behind the beach huts.

Architecturally something of a dog's dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous for the cracking of the Nazi 'Enigma' code during the last war, admittedly in huts around

Note the handcarts parked at the side of the street on the right, and the advertising hoardings on the side of the shop on the left of the picture, advertising among other things 'Wheatleys Hop Bitters

The houses in the background are those in Southwell Park Road.

The huge oil refinery at Fawley cost £120 million when it was built; it occupied the site of Cadland Park, the former home of the Drummond family.

In the heart of the park stand the ruins of Bradgate House, a Tudor mansion; it was the childhood home of Lady Jane Grey, the tragic nine-day Queen of England who was executed in 1553.

It covers 22 acres and was laid out as a park in 1880 with a lake and other water features.

In the Sixties 100,000 visitors a year were holidaying at Rockley Sands Caravan Park; it covered some 600 acres of harbourside heathland and pine wood.

The gardens were used as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the

There are places to park too, and shops to visit.

Colwall Park Hotel is situated just by the railway station.

The museum is set in a large park with impressive formal gardens.

The now vanished Gough Monument, which used to stand in Phoenix Park.

In this unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered

Note the absence of road markings and the apparently low volume of traffic that enables motorists to park on the bridge itself.

Once used as the site of Bury Fair, even by 1955 it had been relegated to a car park.

This site looks almost deserted, except for a Volkswagen parked by one of the caravans and a few cows grazing in the field behind.