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Visitors to the garden will look in vain for this children's playground today, though we can still see where it was. The house behind the hedge has gone too.

This shows the garden within a few years of planting. The chancel of the cathedral was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and was built between 1865 and 1869.

Here we see some of the gardens to the west of the main town, much enjoyed by residents and visitors. The land slopes more gently than in the Shrubbery area.

As development continued, 12 acres of Hungry Moor were presented to Lytham in 1872 by Squire Clifton to be turned into Lowther Gardens, but he stipulated that he must have an uninterrupted view from Lytham

It leads to the curiously-named Gooseberry Garden Walk.

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

The deep, sheltered valleys of this part of the coast were at one time noted for their market gardens, which grew a variety of produce, but were most famous for their strawberries.

A No 147 bus waits outside The Eagle Tavern on the right, and on the left a fingerpost beyond the Imperial Forces public house points towards the public lavatories in Riverside Gardens.

This was erected in 1884 when the heights were opened as pleasure gardens for the public.

The Strand Gardens were laid out in 1870. To the left of the war memorial is Boots the Chemist, with its old-fashioned shop frontage. It is no longer on this site.

It is shown here in its former splendour, with its famous gardens that sloped down to Lough Leane.

Here we see the bandstand in Ellington gardens (now Ellington Park) a century ago: the magnificent trees and floral displays of this 12-acre open space are seen to advantage in this evocative picture

In the 1920s, these riverside gardens became extremely popular with Norwich citizens and trippers from further afield.

In the 1600s, the gardens in the park were renowned as being amongst the most tasteful in England.

The Lutyens war memorial was moved in 1938 to new memorial gardens in front of the new City Hall.

The Lutyens war memorial was moved in 1938 to new memorial gardens in front of the new City Hall.

This photograph shows The Town Hall from the Peace Garden.

A further view of the Working Men's Convalescent Home, showing the sunken gardens, laid out on the dry bed of the former lagoon of the Belle Vue Hotel, which can be seen in the centre of the

This photograph shows the dovecote at the end of the Abbot's garden, the wall of which is undergoing repairs at the time of the picture.

In the second floor bay-windowed room (framed between the two garden umbrellas), Keats completed his epic poem Endymion.

Three small children play on the long village street leading up the hill to the church, lined with well-kept red-brick and timbered cottages and neat gardens, and with the Swan public house halfway along

The statue of Queen Victoria is gazing over the ornamental gardens by the River Trent.

On the left is the Sandbeck House Hotel (demolished 1972) with Walter Smyth's wooden photo studio in the front garden.

By Victorian times it had been transformed into a tea garden of some renown, on the itinerary of all visitors to the Isle of Wight.