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'Service with a smile' is evident as the delivery boy sets off on his delivery bike from the premises of Mr Bridge.

On the left is a boy selling milk from the churn.

The boys are fishing from a miniature wharf which still survives. On the left the meadow is now occupied by Hilda Wharf, 1990s housing.

On the left is a boy selling milk from the churn.

Jonathan 'wearied in well doing', and a troop of Boy Scouts from Colne eventually finished the structure.

Note the boys in the centre. 'Yes', said Mother, 'you can play on the beach, but keep your shirt, tie and hat on - and your jacket'.

A visitor noted that 'in town boys are limited in their mischief, but at the seaside they command another element and keep you in a state of nervous fever'.

The business of taking a photograph is still sufficiently unusual to ensure the subjects do not act naturally, and inevitably one of the boys has failed to heed the photographer's pleas to keep still for

He had come to Epsom in 1906 when he was a boy, arriving with his father Richard from Australia.

Only one of the boys is wearing shorts; the other three are in jeans, which were becoming readily available at around 7s 6d a pair.

Further down the street, we see a wonderfully-posed assortment of turn-of-the-century trades - a delivery boy in his striped apron, someone pushing a cart with a water barrel, and the village postman.

Usually crewed by four men and a boy, they trawled for plaice, sole, haddock, and cod. The Morecambe Bay prawner, also known locally as a half-decker, shrimper, or nobby, was a cutter-rigged smack.

A boy is sitting between the shafts of a handcart in the middle of the road. But no one would dare leave a hand cart in the middle of the street today, as these children have!

In pre-world war two days, most travellers toured their patch by train and tram, hiring a barrow-boy if necessary to trundle their wares between calls.

When the library was built, a bronze statue, 'Boy Eating Apple' by Percy Portsmouth, was sited outside.

A new grammar school was built on the site at Wessington in 1957, the first in the county of Wiltshire, with 360 places for boys and girls.

Very little else has changed, except that Redwood Brothers, who sold men's and boys' clothing, has left; the building has been modernised, with the removal of a first floor oriel window.

The men and boys outside the GPO are very much aware that a photographer is at work. On the right, one man wearing a cloth cap and another a bowler are standing side by side.

On the Chepstow side of the bridge, stacks of wood on the quay give evidence of the timber trade, while two boys standing on the quayside watch people working alongside the 'Alice'.

Edward had inherited his grandfather's ruthless streak; he executed the young boys with neither compunction or compassion.

Mary was happy to burn men, women and children; among others who suffered in Gloucestershire were Edward Horne of Newent, Thomas Drowry, a blind boy of Gloucester, John Coberley of Cheltenham, and John

The castle was owned by the Gadesden family until 1901, and subsequently became a boarding and day school for boys.

The boy is lying on the grassy riverside bank known as the Batts.

Finally, nearest the camera stands the imposing building The Chase, which was built in 1846 as a boarding house for boys and the master of the local Grammar School.