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Overlooking the main road through the village is the church of the Holy Trinity. It was built in the 1880s to replace an earlier church dedicated to St Mary.

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

The raised pavements on both sides of Cheam Road at this point are lined with substantial trees. Between those on the right is the south porch of Trinity Methodist Church.

Helsby Hill totally dominates all views of the village that sits below.

The High Level Bridge spans part of the dock area; it links Barrow Island, which was a separate island, with the mainland.

This marvellously detailed view of the High Street before it was transformed into a pedestrian precinct was taken from the first floor of the Cock Hotel.

The Cock Hotel was demolished in 1961, six years after this view was taken. Its replacement was an uninspiring office block called Old Inn House.

The Astoria cinema, originally named the Chesham Palace cinema and replacing Harding's ironmonger's shop, went in the 1970s and the site is now occupied by an architecturally undistinguished

The old village of Weston, sitting on Runcorn Hill, has given its name to Weston Point where the docks and industries are largely to be found.

At this major junction of Cheam Road, Carshalton Road and the steep High Street, the splendid and ornate sign of the Cock Hotel with the Courage Brewery rooster mounted above sits in the centre.

Looking north into the continuation of the High Street, the Cock pub on the left survives while on the right is the 1886 Congregational Chapel, an Early English Gothic style front flanked by pinnacled

Here we get a splendid view of the frontage of the 1926 Fox Inn building, largely unchanged today.

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

Between the houses in the distance was the site of the Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St Augustine of Canterbury in 1926; it was never completed, and the remains were demolished

Some of these warehouses still preside over the docks today.

Although the railway station opened in 1847 some 200 yards south of the Cock Hotel crossroads, development did not really get under way here until the Epsom Downs line opened in 1865, and new station

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

By 1899 we see that the old two-storey bay window of the Cock Inn has gone, to be replaced by a new shop front installed by Mr Fairburn, who had moved his chemist's and druggist's business

Strangely devoid of motor traffic, this view of the Cheam Road captures a small group of adults and schoolboys waiting at the bus stop on the right for a 213, 408 or 470 bus to transport them westwards

By 1965 the docks at Birkenhead were in severe decline, as we can see from the sparse shipping in these views.

Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.

On one of Stony Stratford's first bridges over the River Great Ouse, Grilkes Inn had been operating since 1317, possibly the oldest alehouse in Buckinghamshire; and the Cross Keys (1475) and the Cock

From the same vantage point as 32663 we now look northwards.

In this photograph we can see wood stacked for seasoning within the dock area. Frequent visitors here were the Russian ships bringing in hardwoods.