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Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

The civil engineers of the future concentrate on their construction work, while a budding mountaineer attempts a climb of the stone wall (left).

This photograph, taken in what is known as Above Bar, shows Bargate facing south. There were originally seven gates into Southampton's old walled town.

Here we see the town bridge in Maidenhead with an elegant steamer - the 'Empress of India' - tied up in the foreground.

The welcoming though deserted bar inside The Red Lion shows a typical pub interior, decorated with brass tankards, hunting horns and pewter plates.

This wintry scene was taken well out of the tourist season, and is hardly an invitation for the choc ices advertised in the snack bar.

Facilities at the racecourse have improved considerably since the fifties with the addition of new stands, hospitality suites and the Champagne and Seafood Bar.

Cove's London Hotel (centre left) is now the Moorish Wine Bar, and J H Easterbrook's Boot and Shoe Warehouse (left) is now two separate businesses.

This pub has a date of 1635 in sheep's knucklebones set in the floor of the bar.

In 1837 the local squire, Reverend Canon Rogers, commissioned James Rendell to design a harbour for the Loe.

The statue of Hull's leading writer, Andrew Marvell, has been moved; George Street became the new centre of entertainment. Bars, bistros and night clubs flourish here.

Continuing through the village, we come to The Black Bull public house (centre); the parish church stands in the background.

Bus shelters, one with a shopper waiting, occupy Tudor Square, once called Bally Green, at the end of Market Street, which is Dalton's main shopping street.

This photograph shows the layout of Beverley well, with North Bar leading to the Market Place. It also reveals more detail of the west front of St Mary's Church.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

Built in the 1820s, and substantially altered in 1848, this building was variously the site of executions, a school, a courthouse and a venue for Swansea's Literature Festival.

The Pump Room (left, 48974) was constructed in 1842 over the sulphur wells. Now it is a fascinating museum, where visitors are encouraged to sample the health-giving water.

Nestling on the south bank of the Humber, the wide boulevard of Whitecross Street has changed little.

Here we see the post-1953 sea wall, stepped here to allow access to the beach.

The bar staff are in attendance, possibly waiting for customers after the Newton, Clifton and Salwick Field Day, very popular in the 1960s. The children from the Blue Coat School loved it.

As we look past the children paddling, the seaward end of the pier is terminated by the Kursaal of 1899, replacing a smaller 1888 one that had cost a mere £250.

All four bars still have their portcullises, but this is the only one that still works. The statues on the parapet are holding rocks or boulders, and are ready to throw them at any invader.

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

Although it is sheltered and here looks relatively tranquil, the estuary has claimed many ships. The famous Doom Bar (so famous it even has a beer named after it!)