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Nottingham University College achieved independent university status in 1948; by then it stood in a park expanded from its original 60 acres to nearer 180 acres.

Refurbished and divided into a park and playing fields, the gardens were reopened in August 1937 as the Botanic Gardens and King George Playing Fields.

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

This has long since been demolished, and the area today is usually clogged by parked cars.

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

An adjacent footpath leads to a viewpoint over the Severn Valley and then down past Hallow Park, where Elizabeth I hunted in 1575, to the river itself.

The Rover 90 is parked outside a row of late 19th-century terraced cottages. These have been replaced by a row of similar, but modern, terraced houses.

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

No parking restrictions were in place at this date, and the Market Place served as the bus station. Car ownership was still a minority activity, despite the number of cars we can see here.

North of Fir Tree Road and just beyond Banstead railway station is Cuddington Park Golf Course; the name is a reminder of the parish and village of Cuddington, which was cleared for Henry VIII's Nonsuch

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

A Morris 18 (left) is parked behind an Austin 16 and PG 8782 (right) has 'GB' plates from a foreign tour.

To the south, Denne Park prevented expansion across the River Arun.

It was many years later that the enjoyment given by proximity to the native deer led to the establishment of the safari park as a major part of the attraction of a day out at Woburn.

The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.

Even the car parking is beginning to lurch towards the need for yellow lines, and all that goes with them.

There are few cars other than those parked between the Cromwell statue and the war memorial, and people are able to pass the time of day in the middle of the road.

At the same time as the rebuilding, the osier beds on the northern side were taken up and Riverside Park was created.

More recently light engineering and commercial enterprises have become part of the business park developments.

The inn has been extended since 1960, but otherwise this view is relatively unchanged, although to the left there is, of necessity, a car park.

Incense-making has taken place at Prinknash for many years, and a Bird Park helps to attract visitors. The celebrated Prinknash Pottery has recently closed, sad to say.

The biggest problem for visitors to Whalley today is where to park.

When this block was demolished it was replaced by a car park.

The semi-circular arch has gone from what is now the car park entrance, and the rather fine pub sign has also disappeared.