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The flagstaff belonged to the lifeboat station, which at that time was sited off the picture to the right, and a flag was flown when the lifeboat was at sea.

The station can be seen on the horizon right centre of the picture.

Colchester Asylum was erected in 1840 as a hotel serving the nearby railway station. However, it was not successful, and took on a different role in 1859.

Percival Pearse, Stationers, still occupy a fine 1850s building (left), but all of this corner would soon be demolished to make way for Golden Square.

The lower portion has acted as a corn exchange and a fire station.

The lifeboat house in the distance (centre) was built in 1899 to replace an earlier station. It was closed in 1934, but it had a brief reprieve during the Second World War.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour, and today is partly pedestrianised. It is shown here crowded with shoppers and an early car.

Green-painted iron gates inscribed `In memory of the fallen` open into the Garden of Remembrance from Plymouth Road, just round the corner from the bus station.

Closer to the city centre, Broadgate is nowadays a frantically busy dual carriageway, and the site on the left a bus station.

The borough gaol of 1784 on its right was still a police station when this picture was taken. Mrs Betts had a successful furniture business dealing mainly in wardrobes (right).

The great, grey battlemented tower stands eighty-two feet high and was used as a signalling station, continuously manned by four men, during the Napoleonic war.

Next door, on the extreme left, the older building has now gone; the site is now occupied by a modern one-storey fire station, which looks incongruous beside its large old neighbour.

The station has now been demolished and the telegraph poles have come down, but the Nag's Head pub is still there.

Berwyn is a lonely spot west of Llangollen, where the half-timbered Chain Bridge Hotel and the station on the old Llangollen-Corwen railway stand beside the River Dee as it enters a small gorge.

To the east of Waddington is a vast Royal Air Force station, but the old village core with its mellow limestone houses and cottages remains remarkably unspoilt.

The 'Millie Walton' was sent to Cromer for evaluation in 1945 before she was sent to her station on the Isle of Man.

This unusual building is of metal construction very much like railway station architecture, with showroom windows above.

A lifeboat station (left background) was at the ready to cope with any rescue missions at sea. A large bathing machine can also been seen here (right background).

The Regent petrol station is the only one between Oakham and Stamford (advertising Navoline Motor Oil ). The Audit Hall is nearby, opposite the White Horse, but not in the photograph.

Situated a short distance to the south of the underground station, this archetypal 1930s parade of shops and flats sits comfortably with it and its well-treed and manicured surroundings.

Coleman's, the stationer's, took over in 2001. International Stores became a butcher's shop in the 1970s, and by 1983 the site was Savory & Moore, the chemists. It is now a Savers shop.

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.

Barton the grocer's (left) is now Snips and Clips, and Scupholm, the potato merchant next door, is now The Filling Station, a good sandwich shop. The Angel Inn is in the distance.

A station was built here in the 1890s for the Cranbrook & Paddock Wood Railway.