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Ancillary businesses included a newsagent, a butcher, a baker and the post office (where the white van is parked), as well as the builder R O Ayres, who proudly advertises his telephone number on his

There are excellent parking facilities for vehicles in this part of the High Street.

The arrival of modern motor-traffic over subsequent decades means this generous space is now more often used as a crowded car park, and on the Spring Bank Holiday as the setting for an annual

This view is in the grounds, now a public park, of Ousebank House, a fine late 17th-century brick house with giant pilasters. It is now occupied by the British Legion.

The 500 acres of deer park was incorporated in the city boundaries in 1932, but only the east side, a strip along the north side, and a strip along the west side were developed for

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

All the buildings on the left have gone, to be replaced by more modern buildings and a car park for the doctor's surgery.

The arrival of modern motor-traffic over subsequent decades means this generous space is now more often used as a crowded car park, and on the Spring Bank Holiday as the setting for an annual Pilgrims

Cavendish Road, which runs from Brighton Road east to Langley Park Road, is a good example of the earlier phases of suburban growth in Sutton.

Originally it was only served by a Congregational Chapel, but later acquired an Anglican church, St Peter the Apostle, seen here from a field, now a car park, and a Church of England primary school.

So, instead of opting for a sensitive pedestrian and architecture-friendly scheme, the area is now transformed into a peculiarly urban landscape, half car park and half odd seating which one would hesitate

There were three pubs - the Royal Oak and the King's Head on the High Street, roughly where their namesakes are today, and the Clarence Arms (now the Park Hotel) on Park Road.

It is now part of Ealing and West London College. At the right are the walls to Walpole Park. Next door is St Mary's, one of the village's original 18th-century houses.

In the High Street there are a few parked cars, but no pedestrians, apart from the two women and a child in the doorway on the right.

The site is now occupied by a supermarket, which may or may not have greater social benefit, and sick children are catered for at Arrowe Park Hospital, with the reassuring backup of Alder Hey in

regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to Bradgate Park

Here we see one of the most popular parts of the Exhibition, the Tobogganing Slide. This attraction stayed when the Exhibition closed and the site became White City Amusement Park. As

Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

Cars fill a single line of parking on the waste of the manor. The pavement is up and men are busy in front of Burden's shop.

on the left, dates from 1842; its imposing stone portico faces onto the High Street rather than the Market Square - which, as has become common in the modern age, is being used as a car park

The Commonwealth Institute, with its forest of flag poles each flying the flag of a Commonwealth nation, occupies what was most of the southern end of Holland Park.

The north side of the Market Place (still a car park) was dominated by the Co-op, which expanded into the right-hand corner building of 1898. The statue in the niche on the left is of Byron.