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Trams first trundled down Cheltenham's streets on 22 August 1901. By the end of the 1920s they had been rendered redundant by the quicker, go-anywhere buses, and the trams were withdrawn in 1930.

Built in 1859, it replaced another from the 1700s which burnt down.

We are looking north down the slope to Station Way, and the bridge which dates from the opening of the railway in 1847.

Tewkesbury's cross stands at the meeting point of the town's three main roads – the High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

This stands close to the site of Assington Hall, which burnt down in 1957. Parts of the outbuildings survived, including the range to the left of the church.

Chapel Street and Duke Street run down towards Bildeston Hall (right). The burial ground of the Baptist chapel, rebuilt in 1844, is opposite the Hall.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.

As we look down to the junction with Watling Street, on the left is the former W H Smith's shop, now offering haircuts!

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.The little cottage on the left has been replaced by a redbrick house, and there

Halfway down the village street on the left we can see the white-painted Fauconberg Arms.

Unfortunately, it was pulled down in 1971. Lee has definitely lost some of its character.

It was built on the site of Mother Downes' charming thatched cottage in 1870 and was much enlarged ­twenty years later.

The cows are lying down, a sure sign of rain, the old saying goes, but whether this is true or false they add a picturesque finishing touch to a watery scene.

It was down Baxtergate that Freeman, Hardy and Willis had their branch. Coal mining was a major employer: Doncaster was ringed with pit villages.

Here we see the brick tower mill, with a replacement roof in place of a cap, in a stripped-down and derelict condition. The photograph was taken from a nearby watermill site.

The new Britannia Pier opened in 1901 with a temporary pavilion, which was pulled down to make way for a permanent pavilion a year later. It fell victim to fire in 1909, though it was replaced.

The butcher's shop is interesting in that it is open on two sides; the butcher either cuts his meat in the street, or he has brought the block out to swill it down.

In direct contrast to the Pavilion by James Tate in Abbey Park, here is a brick and render symmetrical watered-down vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the Council of the early 1960s in

Architecturally it also descends from the heights of the High Street, except for the timber-framed building on the left half way down.

The Town Hall, designed by Sir Gilbert Scott, was started in 1862. It burnt down in 1947, and after much debate, the ruins were cleared away in the early 1960s.

From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal

This little village stands on the edge of a cove in the chalk cliffs of South Foreland, where the road drops steeply down to St Margaret's Bay; it clusters around an impressive Norman church, built around

Along this stretch of the river, the tan-sailed barges carrying cargoes of paper and timber, and the 'stumpies', or narrow boats, used to convey bricks from the kilns down river, were once a familiar