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In the background is an open-top tram - what better way to enjoy the sea air?

Two years afterwards it was renamed Widnes Football Club and is now better known as Widnes Rugby League Football Club or, to the locals, as 'the Vikings'.

Cheap and tatty eating houses dominated Aquarium Parade to such an extent that it was known better as Ham and Eggs Parade.

The wonderfully over-the- top Baroque town hall is a triumph for the town, and much better than the pallid neo-classical one it replaced.

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

We get a better view of the elegant bank building on the left. The double-decker United bus is a No 63 from Middlesbrough. Well-known shops here include Burtons, Woolworths and Timpsons.

Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.

There are fewer such gatherers these days, and the estuary is better known for bird watching than cockling.

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls. Much of the street plan was changed.

Comprehensive 'bigger is better' education styles were adopted with enthusiasm, and Stopsley was one of the first High Schools built to accommodate the new programme.

Situated on the edge of the Fens, Wilingham is a typical example of the 'shoreline' villages that prospered through their access to better grazing for their sheep.

Today, the place is still delightful, and has better roads. This was a typical Devon seaside community where smuggling was endemic.

Fowey's most famous son, the writer Quiller Couch, relished the bustle and colour of Fowey's August regatta, claiming there could be no better place to enjoy the bracing sea air.

The District Council insisted that a better type of landing stage be used for embarking and disembarking passengers.

It is no longer 'the sleepy old place of less than a thousand inhabitants that can boast to have seen better days' as noted by a guidebook writer of the 1890s.

What better on a summer's day than to unpack a picnic, set up the deckchairs, be attacked by wasps and eaten by insects!

Deep cracks have appeared in the better-preserved tower. Hadleigh

It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate. The subterranean public conveniences by the Ovaltine poster have now been replaced by a neat hipped roofed above-ground facility.

St Mawes is sited on lower ground 'the better to annoy shipping'.

A similar view to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of

In a manner typical of this coastline, the soft red sandstone has been blasted into grotesque shapes by the constant battering of wind and wave. Note the winch alongside the nearest boat.

Most famous as the church where Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carroll) was baptised in 1832, the church now has a memorial window with scenes from the Alice books, and draws visitors from all

William Sheldon fought for Henry VII at Bosworth Field in 1485, but is better known for encouraging a renaissance in English tapestry, sending workmen abroad to learn the then lost art.

The working classes were very superstitious and, although wary of the gypsies, their curiosity would get the better of them and they would pay to buy the wares or have their palms read.