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This view looks north down the lane to Lower Limpley Stoke, with the railway curving along to the station beyond the locomotive water tower (now closed).

Building a hotel here in the 19th century must have been something of an act of faith, for the nearest railway station was four miles away at Bovey Tracey and the hotel could only be reached by coach.

Although Wells is a natural seaside resort with a soft sandy beach and shallow sea for bathing, the lookout and lifeboat station in the background mark the possibility of dangers, particularly for those

The shop is still here, and so is the petrol station, although both have grown in size.

This was the original village, and it became the hub of Clevedon when the railway station was built there in 1847.

At the bottom of Wells Hill we can see the railway station, which came with the Bath and Bristol line in 1874, succeeding a canal and tramway for carrying coal.

village grew thanks to railway workers and commuters, and shops moved onto the ribbon development on the Bristol to Bath road - we can see a post office, an optician's, a chemist's, a Co-op and a petrol station

Opened in 1863, it closed in 1926 when a new station for the town was opened to the rear of the town. Note the wheeled stalls on the beach, and the row of chairs all in a line.

Tuesday 14 May 1940, Anthony Eden made a radio broadcast to the country encouraging men who were too old for active service, or who had not already been called up, to report to the local police station

Other targets for fire-bombing included Farrington Hall and Leuchars railway station.

The filling station still exists, and there is another one opposite. The road layout has been radically improved.

Running from the Market Place to the station and level crossing at the bottom of the hill, Berry Lane leads to today's town centre.

Facing the railway station is this unusual Catholic church, dedicated to St John the Baptist.

Remington's stationer's and newsagent's is now part of a national chain.

We are now seeing a view looking towards the railway station, with many of these shops still in existence today, but with more modern shop fronts.

Just as they do today, buses 6 and 15 pass Charing Cross Station, where the forecourt is full of taxis - only two are old-fashioned hackney carriages.

The Corner Shop and Station Parade Post Office still provides an invaluable service to residents and passers-by, but an extension has been built on to the end wall for Saab who also trade

They never got further west than Chesterfield where they had a station at West Bars near the Market Place, and extensive goods facilities.

The bridge is only 31 years old in this view; it is taken from the Devon bank, looking over to Saltash with its railway station, left, and ferry slipway below the bridge.

Church Cove was a pilchard fishing place, with boats hauled up the steep beach, and there was also a lifeboat station here for a while until 1899.

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

Central station is now Manchester's G-Mex Centre.

The impressive edifice of the Queen's Hotel is angled and was originally envisaged to form one section of a 'circus' of buildings, close to the approach road to the town's railway station.

Cottages in the deep gully in Hill Bottom housed a Victorian Coastguard Station, where Thomas Austin was the chief boatman in 1889, with six men as his crew.