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The old Post Office is now a house and the front gardens have been lost owing to the widening of the very busy road.

The port facilities at Weymouth catered for vessels from the Channel Islands, with Custom House Quay beginning at Devonshire Buildings (top left).

The view is up Main Street, westward from the bridge over the River Winniford (right), to Chideock House Restaurant and the Castle Inn.

Some of the houses beyond the car in the middle of the photograph were demolished to make way for a junction allowing access to a 1960s council estate.

This building, with its splendid mansard roof, was demolished in 1927 to be replaced by the present mock Tudor public house now awaiting demolition.

It is regrettable that these fine school buildings in Stoneyfield Road, opened in 1939, were sold in 1992 and the land is now covered by houses in Rossetti Gardens and neighbouring roads.

A Victorian terrace was demolished to make way for the commanding Tesco store in the early 1960s, but after several changes the building presently houses the Kabada restaurant, a snooker

White House cottage to its right, at the end of Bunker's Row, has now been demolished.

Three public houses in the photograph are still in business: the Express, the Anchor Inn and the Vulcan are virtually unchanged.

Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

Widnes was then just a sleepy little hamlet of a few houses on the banks of the Mersey.

The institution had an interesting history.When it opened as a workhouse in 1842 there was no segregation of the poor, sick or insane.They were all housed together, and would remain so until 1865

The public house on the right is The White Horse; the statue of a horse can be seen rearing above the Tower Ales sign.Towards the bar old stonework still remains, with a sign for Pullman's

Following its dissolution in the 16th century, Lilleshall Abbey has become a ruin - its stones were used for the building of many houses in the area.

Buscot is a compact cluster of old Cotswold stone houses set in a model agricultural estate, with an enterprising and active community.

The Manor House is behind the tree and the tile-topped wall.

Note the small white one, whose chimney indicates that it was a wash house.

The only person on the street is a girl holding a baby by the house opposite the barn.

The new site of the bandstand still remains close to Clare House Bridge (see 82781). This picture was taken from the bridge steps.

It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

It is now a house, though it had continued working until 1960, grinding wholemeal for a Chelmsford health-food company.

The house, which measures 10 x 6 feet, has two rooms, and was once occupied by a rather tall man of 6ft 3ins! The wall has since been removed.

The 17th-century cottages used to house lead miners, and there is evidence of an old smelt mill. The village has a Quaker burial ground and a former Methodist chapel.

This view of the Mill House, further north along the Buckinghamshire bank, captures wonderfully the curious formality of late Victorian leisure activity as the fishermen sit stiffly in