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Streetly is a residential community built alongside the Roman road known as Ryknild Street, traces of which can still be seen in Sutton Park.

In all, with additional areas added, the park totalled a grand 102 acres, which follows the Roath Brook between fashionable Cyncoed and Penylan to the east and Heath, Cathays and Roath

Here we see part of the amusement park again. It was known for many years as Peter Pan's Playground and lies to the west of the pier, close to the place where the previous photographs were taken.

The white shop front on the left-hand bend is bedecked with them, and the shop on the near right has a sign for Park Drive.

At that time John Spencer, a Warwickshire sheep farmer, acquired the estate and created a park of some 300 acres here.

The cars parked on the left of the picture may well be taxis. Rising above the cars is the impressive edifice of H Samuel, the famous High Street jeweller.

Strictly speaking, Arrowe Park Hotel is in Woodchurch to the south of Upton. Possibly the only change since the 1950s is its clientele - visually it is much the same.

The gateway through the iron railings on the right leads into the Verdin park, which lies just behind.

The town lies just inside the Dartmoor National Park alongside the main Exeter to Plymouth road. Once stage coaches thun- dered through, forcing bystanders onto the narrow pavements.

The view is still recognizable nearly a century later, although the houses on the left became a car park after a slum clearance programme in the early 1960s.

They were planted in both residential and main roads and the approach to the town from Gidea Park is a joy when the trees are in full foliage.

The Bourne stream runs through the area of Lower, Middle and Upper Bourne, joining the River Wey at Moor Park.

Drive through the village and before long you reach the entrance to the Royal Victoria Country Park, formerly the site of the old Netley Hospital.

Here we see a small modern shopping centre with a necessary car park, containing some interesting models of yesteryear - for instance Ford Anglia and Ford Cortina, Austin, Rover, Vauxhall Velox and Triumph

Scenes like these have been submerged by new building and the impedimenta of servicing tourism: cafes, souvenir shops, car parks, public conveniences and other facilities.

Unfortunately, he died before this could be achieved, but part of his plan was to make improvements to the Park. Handbridge Castle was one of them.

However, the horse and carriage parked outside shows there was still a demand from the equestrian trade.

A green lung in the centre of the town, the park was given to Whitby by Alderman Pannett.

An interesting range of cars and vans occupy the car park.

The railing and trees on the right are part of Brockwell Park, and the shops on the far side are under the Herne Hill to Tulse Hill railway line.

From the Terrace there is a magnificent view to the north, looking out over Eton and the Home Park to the Chilterns in the far distance.

The first avenue of trees was planted in the park during 1753.

This view looks across to Crickley Hill, which is now designated a country park.

Hall Leys Park and Pleasure Gardens were created when the riverside site, formerly water meadows, was purchased by the town council in 1889.