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A fishing village and yachting centre located on a creek of Chichester Harbour.

The original part is at the centre. Note the lack of standing gravestones in the graveyard around the church.

When the tower itself came down in about 1912, the tower building continued to be a centre for entertainment.

The photographer is facing inland towards the village centre where the cattle market and the market place were at the time. They are not there now - housing or car parks have taken their place.

This photograph looks eastwards towards the mediaeval town centre, but apart from reminding us that shop fascias were once sensitively designed, and that shopping streets were once pedestrian-friendly,

Over hundreds of years, the castle was expanded until in 1832 it became the official residence of the bishop and administrative centre for the diocese.

Then as now, one could dawdle on the way to the beach and look at the gift shops or stop for a cuppa, or even have some oysters – an oyster stall is just visible (centre left).

The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

In the centre is the square gate tower with its arched water gate. Boats could enter the castle through the water gate, as there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

The No 15 bus to Bexhill (centre) has stopped beside the white-painted Windmill Hill Store and a garage, whose petrol pumps can just be seen.

An old centre for the district that had a market close to the Hampshire border and the coast. The church of St John the Baptist has an avenue of yew trees.

The former offices of Eastern Gas have already undergone a dramatic change: Tower Point is now 11 floors of one- to four- bedroom flats in the main area and a fitness centre at the south end.

It is remarkable that the facade is little changed, apart from an added storey at the right and a mansard to the centre.

On the right, however, all has gone under the 1960s blizzard of redevelopment: the jewellers and the Greyhound Hotel made way for Friars Square shopping centre.

Holidays were generally taken at Skegness, Mablethorpe or Great Yarmouth; pre-television entertainment was fairly extravagant, with seven cinemas in the town centre, including the Floral Hall, along with

This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.

The airfield was an important centre during the war, and was in use until the mid 1990s. There are now firm proposals to develop an international airport on the site.

Outside Prospect Cottage a young girl is caught mid-skip (centre right). To the left behind the memorial is the old Hall.

Robin Hood's Bay is now half the size of the original village - the centre section slid into the sea, taking with it the new road.

The ship in the centre is the 'Canford', registered in London, with a Bremen ship in the right-hand corner.

many of the buildings seen in this view, particularly on the left- hand side, have gone, including the 1880s Barclays Bank, which is now a building at the entrance to the 1980s Swan Shopping Centre

Lloyds bank has gone, and its premises are now called Bargate House, and the tall lime tree in the garden of Vine Court (left of centre) is no more.

Since the Second World War the house has been much extended, and is used as a hostel and conference centre.