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Even in the 1950s cars did not dominate the roads of Dorset, except during holidays and at weekends.

This hostelry, in Pevensey's High Street, is one of the ancient town's historic buildings standing opposite the east gate to Pevensey Castle.

An admiring crowd of children - one with a hoop - and some adults linger at this cross-roads hamlet in the High Weald near Ticehurst.

This view shows Curbar and Baslow Edges in the background, with the houses of the village filling the dale in the foreground.

This time, two children are filling their bucket from the fountain, and the George and Dragon Hotel, which welcomed members of the Cyclists' Touring Club, is the prominent building on the right.

The house consists of four ranges built round a courtyard. On the right here is the south range, which includes the parlour and great chamber.

This was the second section of promenade to be constructed, with work beginning in 1891. Before this, the river frontage would have been largely open to the shore.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.

This view from the banks of the River Great Ouse looks towards the village, with the tower mill in the distance.

Bason Bridge is part of East Huntspill village. Here a railway ran alongside the Brue from Highbridge to Glastonbury.

Eaton Park, out in the western suburbs, has three avenues and rectangular ponds converging on a bandstand surrounded by circular colonnaded buildings, which were built between 1924 and 1928.

This scene, with Lieutenant Colonel Tebbutt's 19th-century barograph under the shelter in front of the village shop has hardly changed.

The Hemingford Laundry (left), which was taken over by the Huntingdon Model Laundry, closed in the late 1960s when Gordon Elphick opened a furniture shop on the premises.

The exposed position of the bandstand meant that it had to have a revolving glass screen to prevent the performers' music blowing away!

Flying boats remained a common sight on Southampton Water during and after the Second World War.

Hurst Castle was built by Henry VIII between 1541 and 1544 as a defence against foreign attack, utilising many of the stones from the dismantled Beaulieu Abbey.

In the centre of the picture, the George and Dragon, with its quaint porch and balcony supported on brackets, was originally an old posting inn.

Many of the inns along the broads contain the word 'Ferry', commemorating long-gone crossing points. The ferries were often run by the innkeepers themselves, who benefited from the extra trade.

And whilst the general level of signs outside has reduced, AA and RAC signs are prominent on both buildings.

Just outside the village of Weston Rhyn there is an unusual folly - a romanticised Stonehenge. It was erected in the 19th century by Thomas Barnes.

On the left you can see Southern Railway's Riverside Station.

The undercroft on the west side of the cloister garden comprises the two vaulted aisles that once formed the abbot's cellars; above this was the guest-house.

Today Currys trades from an edge-of-town superstore in St Georges.

It was replaced by a structure which had started life as a dais used on Peel Street to receive their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary during the royal visit of 1913.