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This hotel is just beside the North Eastern Railway Station.

Walsworth Road in 1901, at the junction with Whinbush Road and looking towards the station. The building on the left is a lodge forming part of the Hermitage estate.

Though the resort was away from the railway, holiday-makers could easily reach it by tram, either from Fleetwood or from North Station.

This view looks south, downhill past Horden's booksellers and stationers, which is undergoing repair.

On the right is the junction with Station Road. Under the Town Hall once stood an old 18th-century fire engine with wooden wheels, and also the old stocks.

Station Road, though quite short in length, still manages to achieve a broad mix of shops and dwelling houses.

Very little has changed in these shops, which were built immediately opposite Freshfield station.

The building to the rear of the quay was - and is - the lifeboat station. Note the paddle steamer at the quay.

From south west of the station go first to St Mary's Butts, whose wide street was used until about 1600 for archery practice at the 'butts'.

The cross sands route from Hest Bank and Arnside comes ashore by Kents Bank station, which is regularly used in summer by those groups of walkers who have been led across Morecambe Bay,

Apart from making day trips for tourists, and ferrying guests from the railway station at Kingswear to the hotels at Totnes, the paddlers performed another essential function - everyday transport for

Proximity to the bus station kept this area busy. There was still plenty of on-street parking at this time, before Accrington developed various car parks.

Station Road was probably the first view of the town for most tourists, leading as it does from the railway to the sea front.

Of course most of the shops have changed hands, for example Killwick's, (pronounced Kill'ick's) the furniture shop, is no longer on the corner of Station Parade.

There has been a mill here since Saxon times - and perhaps earlier, as Kelvedon is believed to be the site of the Roman station Canonium.

The post box still stands in the garden of the shop at the corner of Station Road and Woodside Road, but the telephone box, peeping into the left of the photograph, has disappeared.

Churchill, the War Cabinet and the Allied Chiefs used the local railway station as their headquarters during the planning of D-Day in 1944, conducting operations from a special train based here.

The petrol station in the centre of the market place was the Town Hall with an open arcaded ground floor, the arches now glazed. It dates from 1764, and surely deserved a better fate.

It developed around the railway station when houses were built for middle-class Victorian families who chose to live surrounded by beautiful woodland scenery.

This view will be familiar to users of Sainsbury's petrol station today!

The Tantivy (left) was named after the coach service that connected with Dulverton's railway station, two miles away.

Waddington is now noted more for its large Royal Air Force station to the east of the village, but it grew up on a diversion of Ermine Street to the western scarp of the limestone ridge.

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.

The deserted pier with its lifeboat station on the opposite side, and the unmanned boats in the foreground, each make their own contribution towards a scene of undisturbed tranquillity, whilst in the