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Wildersmouth Beach - named after Wilder Brook - was the main beach before the cutting of the tunnels.

It was here in the mid 1800s that Dr William Penny Brookes practised.

Taken almost from the bottom of High Street, many of these buildings are unchanged a century later, even if their uses have. Brook's Cafe Restaurant is now The Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

This view, looking along the Roath Brook, does not give much idea of the park's scale. But at a total of 102 acres, the park was a pretty immense area for a day out.

In this still mainly rural area, names redolent of the country abound: Pewter House Fold, Smalley Fold, Hubbersty Fold (like 'booth', 'fold' means a cowhouse or animal pen).

Note the sign on the telegraph pole on the right - 'telegrams may be telephoned.' Upper Clatford lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

The bridge carries the Padiham road over Sabden Brook into the village.

As we look back towards Cookham from near the viewpoint of photograph No 77588 towards the bridge onto Odney, since rebuilt, the Thames is beyond the trees with its two channels.

Now a hotel, the Old Court House was built by Sir Robert Brooke - he had bought the estate for £946 (an enormous sum of money for the times) following the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII

The Kettle Brook 1898 A short walk from The Harrow pub at Steep brings you to this delightful spot at the heart of hilly East Hampshire, sometimes described as 'Little Switzerland'.

The name Ewelme derives from an Old English word meaning 'spring'.

The foremost stream in this area is Plants Brook, which once powered several mills. One of these was Penns Mill, operated as a wire-drawing mill by Joseph Webster from 1752.

The Mill C1960 Izaak Walton fished here in the Meon, reflecting that the valley 'exceeds all England for swift, shallow, clear, pleasant brooks and store of trout'.

Delph and Dobcross were two of the principal villages within Saddleworth.

In the foreground horse-drawn reaping machines are offered for sale in the market.

This is the view south down the High Street from outside Beech Hurst, which is off to the left.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

For most of the century the city's parks retained their popularity and were maintained meticulously, only in the last quarter of the century suffering from a lack of management and care.

Finchingfield combines a water supply (Finchingfield Brook) with a defensible site (Church Hill). What made sense to Saxon settlers has made it Essex`s most photographed village.

The old Mill House (centre) was demolished in 1966.

Standing on a plateau overlooking the Arun Valley, Amberley is often described as 'the pearl of Sussex' and 'the loveliest village in Sussex'.

Entering the village from Clitheroe, the road dips to cross Heys Brook. Beyond Martin's Bank and the shops is the Black Bull Inn, which carries a date stone of 1855.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.