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The village once had its own railway station and iron workings, as well as a farm with nine dairy herds.

Billboards on the side of the Station Square shop advertise land for sale, and the board on the fence advertises the same for Robin Hoods Bay.

Two sailors stand just along from the coastguard station in Edwardian Exmouth.

Here, in an otherwise lonely valley, we can see the Eastern Telegraph Co's large cable station in the centre, with employees' housing in the distance.

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.

The town eventually became a station on the London to Dorchester line. Given the lack of straight sections of line in the vicinity, the railway here was nicknamed 'Castleman's Corkscrew'.

In 1928, Edward, the Prince of Wales, was motoring past Rugby with his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, when he saw the masts and decided to pay the station a surprise visit, even ascending one

The gardens, which lie beside the railway station, were opened in 1865. Attractive flower beds and shrubberies surround an ornamental lake, which draws large numbers of water birds.

Here we see Swansea Bay Station and the Slip. A fairground, market, ice-cream stalls, and so on were all to be found here in their day.

The station is behind the camera in this alternative view of the High Street.

This is one good reason for the simple petrol station at the corner - the only one on the whole route - but it is on a nasty double bend.

The Walmer Lifeboat Station on the right of this photograph was opened in 1856 and closed in 1912, but in 1927 it was reopened.

Aldborough, just one mile from Boroughbridge, stands on the site of the Roman station Isurium, and has a museum containing Roman remains.

This part of Acock's Green is known as 'the village', but the centre of the community is further east, nearer the railway station, which opened in 1852.

In 1971 the Fawley power station started generating electricity.

The older part of the town lies close to the railway station. This picture from the First World War period shows two printing works - W L Hunt on the left and Clement & Son on the right.

Coalville developed as a town from a railway station named Long Lane on the old Leicester-Swannington line (1832).

On the right, Mr Grover`s business of garden ornaments and fencing has now been replaced by lines of second-hand cars on the corner of Station Approach.

The building on the extreme right of this photograph combines two essential services – the local library and the police station, though neither is open full- time.

Consequently, when the railway was built from Manchester to Crewe, it had an important rail- way station, for, until the Macclesfield and Knutsford lines were both built about 20 years later, the

The petrol station still exists in an expanded form.

Station Road looks a tidy place: the hedges are well trimmed and the roadway is clean. Each of the houses shows a differing style, with dormers, gables and bow windows.

At the junction with Station Road, Frith's photographer stands by the war memorial with the churchyard behind him.

This view looks north towards Chapel Point and the Coastguard Station. There was also a Second World War gun emplacement on the point. Again there are houses on the sand hills.