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Newnham Paddling Pool in Lammas Land, pictured here with just a small handful of die-hard paddlers and bathers, and a park keeper looking on.

Established on 34 acres of land that had previously belonged to the Appleton House estate, Victoria Park opened to the public in 1900.

The road took its name from the close proximity of both Romilly and Porthkerry Park.

The wide square has parking spaces in the middle; in the left-hand corner stands the King's Head hotel. Opposite is Roebuck House, which dates from the late 14th century.

A rustic bridge spans an ornamental lake in this picturesque park.

Sir Henry Thompson, son of a vice admiral and curate of the parish church of St Peter and St Paul, helped to found Holy Trinity Church in West Street, as well as church schools in Park Lane and Fontley

Car parking was allowed at this time. The Rochdale Observer office on the left still had its old clock, which has since been replaced.

The scene here is not changed greatly today, although there are many more parked cars which line the road and the trees have grown.

Immediately beyond is a swing bridge.The 15-acre Drayton Manor park and zoo is close by; the village of Drayton Bassett is to the southwest.

Thatched cottages are comparatively rare in this part of Derbyshire; to see Baslow's examples, you have to follow the signposted path for Chatsworth, which starts at the car park.

The area was then landscaped and turned into a park, which was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921.

Small, well-mannered cottages set a later 19th-century scene in the days before parked cars lined the roads.

Benjamin Bucknell, the architect who designed Woodchester Park, was born in the village of Rodborough.

The village stands at the edge of the park of Holkham Hall, the palatial 18th-century home of Thomas Coke, later Earl of Leicester.

The bridge in the foreground of this photograph leads over the River Leven to a car park designated for the use of patrons of Suggitts ice cream parlour, something of an institution in

During the 19th century the town centre had shifted westwards to the Bridge and Park Street.

Perhaps they want the fresh bread that is just being delivered from the van parked outside.

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

impressive footbridge which spans the lake, but it also reminds us that Burnley is an industrial town; the chimneys are those of the Burnley Brick and Lime Co Ltd, which had works at Heasandford and Queen's Park

The area was then landscaped and turned into a park, which was opened by the Prince of Wales in 1921.

The 'Rec' - now Central Park - was opened in 1894. Pathways were laid out and small landing stages constructed. The willow-trees were pollarded every five years to provide fencing materials.

Originally in Cowholme Meadow, this unofficial dovecote is now within the well-treed riverside walk park.

had become very badly neglected by the beginning of the 20th century, so the gravestones were removed to line a boundary wall and the area was landscaped and opened as a public park

Here we see Maldon's famous promenade— now Promenade Park—with a fine array of fishing boats; the tower of St Mary's church, with its landmark little white spire, can be seen in the background.Today