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The left- hand or south pedestrian arch was inserted in 1865, and the building on the left was part of the police station, built in 1865 and demolished in 1964 for the present (very 1960s) Abbey

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

We are now further along Leigh Road and looking back towards the station. Trees planted c1900 are now mature, and more modern lighting has been installed.

In the centre is the Sands station, owned by the London, Chatham & Dover Railway, which opened on 5 October 1863.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

The station approach is off to the left in front of the 'Catering' sign.

Remarkably, little has changed in this view, although the Midland Bank on the right is now a pub, and the Station Hotel on the left (beyond Hall and Co, coal and coke merchants) is now part

With the silting up of the River Dee and the decline of Chester as a port in the early 19th century, Neston began to thrive as a market town and coaching station.

We are looking from the Cobb Warehouses to the Coastguard Station and Old Bonded Store (centre); this was before the approach to the Cobb was transformed in 1937 with the building of the new

First to be completed was a pedestrian way linking Castle Street with the bus station. This was called Birdcage Walk, and once included an aviary housing tropical birds.

The single-storey building we can glimpse through the trees is the fire station, which moved in 1970 to Butts Hill.

At the top of the street stands an elegant 18th-century building housing the police station; on the near left, an outfitter's shop displays lengths of cloth.

The station approach is off to the left in front of the 'Catering' sign.

Along Station Lane, westwards out of Offord Cluny, the mill is silhouetted against the skyline.

On the left, the shop with the sign on top of the white window is the family business of Riddick, printers, bookbinders and stationers from 1911 to the 1970s.

We are looking south down the High Street, which runs from London Road towards the railway station. Crawley Hill is in the distance, covered in more spacious suburbs.

On King Street and the corner of Station Road is an old cricket square, said to be where the first Lancashire versus Yorkshire match was played.

This scene is of Banstead Downs, which are actually outside Sutton's boundaries, south of Belmont station. The clubhouse of the Banstead Downs Golf Club is seen in the distance.

Woodmansterne Station, situated in Coulsdon, did not arrive until 1932 and, although some distance from the old village, it was an impor- tant factor in the development of new roads off Rectory

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

Originally a village of scattered houses beside a long rectangular Green with a triangular north end, it spawned a commuter village in the 1930s based around Croxley Station.

The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.

That is the Liverpool/Southport electric line, which has stations at Freshfield and Formby.

A local architect, Lambert was quite versatile, designing the Albert Hall Methodist Mission in Nottingham (1909) in the form of a music hall, and Nottingham's Midland Station in a fashionable Edwardian