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This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

The lighthouse, seen here from St James's Green, was built in 1890: 'the light is of 800 candle power and occulates twice every 20 seconds'. On the left are Adelaide Cottage and Caithness House.

Percival's Swaledale Motor Services run buses (left) between Richmond and the Swaledale villages. The few people with motor cars park them at will.

Chipstead Way runs immediately behind the photographer`s position and Upper Pines is the turning on the left-hand side beyond Nos 44 and 42 Pine Walk.

This photograph was taken further up the street from No C537055. The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

Watford Way, running down to the North Circular Road from the M1 motorway, looks definitely under-used in 1960.

The earliest scheme for a non-tidal basin at Avonmouth capable of taking vessels too large to reach Bristol was a £1.5 million project promoted in 1852.

Parts of this bridge may date from the 1670s, when the river was made navigable. The Borough of Thetford had the right of tolls until 1872 and was responsible for its repair until 1950.

Clinging to the steep escarpment below Leith Hill, this village centre is, at 750ft, the highest in Surrey.

The building in the foreground was the Chequers, an alehouse since the early 15th century, which closed in 1939.

A young boy pushes a handcart towards the camera on this street running south towards the church of St Peter, as two elegantly hatted ladies drive their pony and trap past a sunbathing dog on the pavement

This shop was run by two generations of Ben Friars from around 1910 to 1982. It had its own abattoir, smoke house and mobile shop.

We are looking north- eastwards from one of the public footpaths across Tarks Hill over Mill Lane and Brister End (centre) to the twin peaks of Honeycombe Wood (top left) and Lillington Hill

Though cars were more affordable by the 1950s, engines, being thirstier by today's standards, needed more frequent refueling.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour. The street today has been partly pedestrianised. In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

There are now traffic islands in the middle of the road.

In the middle of Over and Nether Wallop, the river runs beside the road. To the north-east lies the Second World War airfield which has been the centre for army flying since 1958.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

Narberth was once part of the domain of the powerful medieval Mortimer family.

Railton Road runs from Brixton and today, at its south end, it continues to be a one-way street. It is unusual that many of the shops have not changed.

This photograph was taken on the same occasion as T122001. Trams used to run along Mandale Road between Norton and North Ormesby, but that was more than seventy years ago.

Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community

Billy Hole, whose newsagent's, stationer's and tobacconist's shop we see on the left, was an interesting character.

Main Street crosses Church Street, the A612, to become Station Road as far as the railway line, which runs between the village and the river.