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At the time this picture was taken it was showing 'The Parent Trap' starring Hayley Mills and Maureen O'Hara.

Nearby lived Denis Jenkinson, the racing driver who in 1955 had partnered Stirling Moss in a Mercedes Benz to win the Mille Miglia, that fearsome 1,000-mile race running from Brescia to Rome.

Corfe Mullen's mill received a mention in the Domesday Book. Here we see a very 1950s scene - the tea rooms combined with a petrol station catering for the revolution in popular motoring.

The mill occupies an island between the two rivers, Thet and Little Ouse.

Batley was one of the pioneers of steam trams; they ran from 1874, and the depot in Bradford Road later became Wilson's Mill.

The two brick buildings on the left are now Huffer's and Mill House Fabrics. The scene is not so tranquil today, thanks to the traffic.

This view is at the village crossroads, looking across the main A415 Frilford Road from Mill Road into North Street.

The mill stands on the northern edge of town, with St Mary's graveyard visible beyond; it dates from Norman times, and by the Middle Ages was used for fulling cloth.

On the right is the shingle mill, a vast screening plant, which was used to process shingle until 1958.

The rushing water drove the engines at Low Moor spinning mill.

Elland is a small town built around the industries of woollen mills, textiles, and quarries for coal, stone and clay.

The only one remaining is the Maud Foster Mill built in 1819 for the brothers Thomas and Isaac Reckitt from Wainfleet, and later operated by the Ostler family.

There are two mill streams, one known as the Barton River, from which water is provided for the Itchen Navigation Canal, and this branch, which follows the Fair Oak Road with Montague Terrace on the right

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

It is now best known for its woollen mill, a magnet for tourists.

An old mill, which was used as a navigation mark by mariners, was destroyed in a storm in 1839.

large number of pubs used by the town's seafarers (South Shields had the largest number of seamen as a proportion of its population than anywhere else in Britain) whilst waiting for time to go over to Mill

The major landmark is the windmill, a post mill dated 1665.

The somewhat interestingly named hamlet of Dirt Pot lies just one mile north of Allenheads.

It was built in 1850 by Joseph Kaye, who was well-known in the town as a merchant, a brewer and the owner of four mills at Folly Hall.

This is actually a combined wind and water mill. A

Ecclesfield lies 5 miles north of Sheffield. The village used to be in Derbyshire. Its industry was based on small engineering and the flour mill.

At one time Gayle overshadowed its neighbour, Hawes, half a mile away. But then the turnpike road was built, and Gayle lost its eminence.

Bingley was a busy mill town; at one time these numbered nineteen. Here we look in envy at this quiet road - these days it is hard to see the tarmac.