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Although the busy A24 now thunders past the old forge at the foot of Byttom Hill, the building is still clearly recognisable, although now expanded into a chic French restaurant, and with a bus stop

This secluded community lies in a wooded valley on the outskirts of Guisborough.

The River Leven flows through Stokesley, Hutton Rudby and Crathorne before passing under Leven Bridge and joining the River Tees at Yarm.

Rather curiously, the High Street turns sharp right at this road junction, and heads down to the beach. The road in the centre distance is the Coast Road to Redcar.

Councillor Frederick Monks of the Monks Hall Iron Foundry presented the Town Hall Gates to Warrington on Walking Day, 28 June 1895.

In 1862 George Charnley Dewhurst, a wealthy Manchester cotton magnate, bought the Oughtrington estates and became a benefactor to the village.

Warston Pictures proudly presents 'My Six Convicts' at its Cameo Cinema on the corner of Springfield Street, opposite Bank House (right.)

At the end of the street, the petrol pumps have gone, and Thrower's the newsagent's has become an estate agent's. Opposite is Hatters, where straw hats were made.

The telephone box has gone, and the Post Office and shop, owned by R Boardman at this time, has closed, but the post box has become the letter box to the house.

This picture has several features to date it at around 1955. Firstly, the black car near the café is a 1950s or 1960s model, and the petrol pumps on the right are of that era.

The town is known as Kington simply because it was the King's town at one time and it is generally assumed that the king in question was Edward the Confessor.

Gun Hill takes its name from the Gun Inn, further up London Road at Bowers Gifford. The pub seen here—the Bull—is displaying a 'Sundays: No Coaches' sign.

Chipping Norton is known familiarly to locals as 'Chippy'.

Situated at a height of 650ft above sea level, Chipping Norton is Oxfordshire's highest town.

Carfax stands at the crossing point where the original north to south and east to west routes ran through Oxford.

The second shop down on the left at 55 High Street is Stoodley & Sons, the jewellers, established in 1861 and still trading in Alton today.

The bus advertises Fremlins' ales outside the Red Lion, a Style & Winch house of flamboyant grandeur, but now no more, sad to say.

Originally, the fire station was at the southern end of Mill Street, next to the Salvation Army Hall. By 1955 a new station had been built on the corner of Brooke Road and South Street.

The famous steam cruiser the 'Gondola' is seen here tied up and waiting for passengers at the Waterhead Pier on Coniston Water.

Local children, clad in the long dresses and knickerbocker trousers of Edwardian times, stare inquisitively at the camera - the lads on the right ready with bat and ball for a game of cricket.

The Red Lion Hotel in the charming village of Armathwaite occupies a beautiful position at the foot of a tree-clad bank above the River Eden.

HMS 'Lion' and 'Implacable' 1890 These old ships of the line were proba- bly used as training ships for young recruits.

Here we see the extensive village green at Reeth, the largest village in Swaledale.

The grand classical building on the left, built in 1895 for the Lewes Old Bank, was bombed in 1943: it is now Barclays Bank.