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George Hilton`s business (extreme left) had expanded across the road to the newly built brick building on the right of the photograph.

A group of young men of fashion are keen to show off their new suits to the photographer outside Burton's store.

This photograph looks northwards up the High Street to Donkey Lane and the 17th-century thatched Dormouse Cottage on the corner (centre).

In addition to the Wednesday market, a Saturday market was established on 2 January 1904; it was opened by the Chairman of the Uttoxeter Urban Council, Mr A C Bunting, Esq, JP, CC.

The shops sit cheek by jowl on one side of the street, whilst the other is fringed with pollarded limes and chestnuts.

Now the campus of Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip

Most of the rest of those buildings are in the main still there, but they do not look as impressive as they did in 1955.

For those who made the short sail out from Belfast, the charms of this piece of coast were obvious: a bay lined with low, craggy rocks and sands providing picturesque bathing pools.

The church at Painswick has a right-angled, almost fortress-like chapel, which dates back hundreds of years.

these help it to blend perfectly into the setting of the village. Christ Church was consecrated in 1904.

Rowers speed past moored motor cruisers on a sylvan reach of the river, close to the town centre.

This is a daily sight around the capital of horse racing - stable lads exercising racehorses on Newmarket Heath.

Rustic benches and rose arches form the subject of this picture, and would have made an attractive postcard.

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

The quay was once an unloading point for ships, carrying cargoes of wines and spirits to the town.

Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.

A delightful close-up view of a typical Kentish windmill; this one is an octagonal white-boarded smock mill. The mill was built in1869.

Many of these buildings were built by Thomson for their shipyard workers. Some still exist, but many houses have been replaced by new buildings.

By this time the population of Perth was about 32,000. The city's manufacturing industries were diverse and included linen, twine, jute, glassmaking and printing.

The Severn at Shrewsbury is the haunt of pleasure craft. Here the ferryman is carrying guests from the Boat House Inn across the river.

The Castle gateway is out of shot on the left.

Along here were branches of both national and Cheshire retailers including Dewhurst, the butchers, and Waterworths.

This is a well-known beauty spot on the north face of Haytor where the Becka Brook hurtles down to join the River Bovey.

An evocative view of this pleasant town which takes its name from the ruinous Cistercian Abbey.