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The Pleasure Gardens with their scented pines and attractively laid out grounds were popular with people of all ages, at a time when fashion and social mores decreed that the human form should remain

The Southdown & East Grinstead Breweries Ltd, owners of The Swan, have now smartened it up and rebuilt the lower floor completely.

In the storms of 1953 it was damaged again. A young woman stands with her grandmother a little along from the Bath Hotel.

Wellington Gardens is styled in the classical manner, with a domed bandstand reminiscent of St Paul's. Here the fashionable promenaded.

The bus advertising E A Beveridge & Co and the cars are of an earlier vintage, but the buildings still look much the same.

The buildings round the green date from the 18th to 19th centuries, with the exception of the 17th-century barn with a hipped and thatched roof to the right of the church.

A little down-river from the city of Oxford is Iffley, with its mill lock and bridge. The water mill here dates back as far as the 11th century, and survived for almost 800 years.

Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

With its magnificent 12th-century priory church of St Mary, its market cross and broad cobbled square, it is perennially popular with visitors.

Stand across the road, roughly in the spot where this picture was taken, and you will see that little has changed, apart from a few more trees, some road signs and plenty of traffic.

The architectural quality falls off somewhat in the southern part of the town. This view looks along the London Road to The Square, with Hinwick Road to the left.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.

The North Shore of Skegness was slow to develop, but it now has lots of attractions for visitors, including an AstroGlide slide for children.

Although Beeching axed the trains on this line, he left this magnificent structure as it was. The rails have been removed, and a pleasant cycle track has been installed.

Ice cream - or 'Hokey Pokey' as it was known to the Victorians -has long been a popular fare on Exmouth sea front. It would have been sold in a block on a sheet of paper.

The large building in the background is Clivedon, built by Charles Barry in 1851 for the Duke of Sutherland.

The village features in the story surrounding Wulfhere of Mercia and his two sons Ulfred and Rufin.

The date 1960 is inscribed on the side of the bridge, which is now a fixed bridge with rolled steel joists and a wooden deck.

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny is an example of a departure from the traditional approach to the design of country houses

This quiet lane, now the B4100, was a teeming main road until the M40 relieved it of traffic in the early 1990s. Now it is relatively peaceful again.

Beyond Blisworth and virtually within earshot of the M1 (which opened in the late 1950s) Milton Malsor survives proximity to Northampton remarkably well.

The warehouses of Boston have suffered in recent years; the ones on the right on the opposite bank have been converted into flats, but the distant one has been, like so many of its companions, demolished

Almost swallowed up by the caravan sites to the east that merge Mablethorpe with Sutton on Sea, Trusthorpe clings to some independence.

Ludham sits on 'high' ground, which in Broadland can be just a few feet above sea level.