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Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

The sign next to H A Furr's confectionery shop advises traffic for Bedford and Luton to use Tilehouse Street, while traffic for Baldock is directed down Sun Street.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

Now a crowded suburb of Folkestone, this once rural village on the heights of the Downs just behind Sandgate has been transformed by the construction and rail links accompanying the building of

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

This unusual view of the harbour looks down on the moored boats, and offers insight into their rarely-seen deck gear.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

A vintage tram makes its way down Clifton Drive to Lytham St Anne's. Before the sand dunes were levelled, sand blown on the tram tracks caused trouble.

To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

A range of three 16th-century thatched cottages in banded flint and Hamstone is down to the right.

Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.

Opposite are signs for a 'Day and Night Telephone' and the star-sign of the Star Tea Company (centre left), with the Royal Lion Hotel further down the street.

In this picture, the camera is looking down Church Street from High Street (renamed Stoke Road in 1959).

The name 'Raleigh' refers to their previous premises in the town, which were burnt down.

After its closure in the 1950s, the buildings were taken down and it became the site of a petrol station and tyre-fitting business; but in the late 1990s, this in turn was demolished.

Bounded by Gosmoor and Charlton Roads, Priory Park was a favourite spot for picnics and Sunday afternoon strolls down to the banks of the River Hiz close to Brick Kiln Lane, Charlton, which runs behind

what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town

This shows pre-war motoring at its peak, moving both ways up and down West Street, which was the A35 main road.

Deep shadows engulf the Greyhound Hotel (left), with the Town Hall behind, in this lunchtime view westwards to Colmer`s Hill (centre).

This picture looks westwards down the north side of West Street, with its lollipop limes, from the Post Office to Victoria Grove (right of centre).

Looking towards Blucher Street the old and admittedly somewhat run down cottages survived until Brandon's store replaced them in the 1930s, a three-storey white painted block at odds with everything

The tower was still being finished in 1816; it was never quite completed, and it fell down in 1862.