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The lorry and tractor are parked casually - perhaps the owners are drinking at the Chequers, or visiting Lloyds Bank (left); a postman is delivering letters (right).

This narrow lane shows exactly how the back streets of the old town would have looked 200 years ago.

The park, situated along the Yarm Road, was the gift of Sir Robert Ropner, and was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 4 October 1893.

In the 1920s, the owner of a chain of grocery stores had two carved cats placed on the upper front of his shop - they were supposed to frighten the rats away from the river bank.

By the time of this photograph, the river was being used more and more for pleasure: streamlined boats are moored by the bank, and a canoe with its lone occupant is heading towards Lendal Bridge.

The south bank was a popular location for hiring rowing boats, and the Bedford Rowing Club, founded in 1886, have their boat and club house to the left of the photographer.

The three- storey building with painted architraved frames to the rows of sash windows is the early 18th-century White Hart, and beyond is a pedimented neo-Georgian 1930s Barclays Bank.

Instead, it has thirteen separate towers, linked by a curtain wall, a Saracen idea brought back by returning Crusaders.

Our photographer has his back to the ABC Carlton Cinema, which stood at this junction.

Also known as St Sampson's, Golant on the west bank of the Fowey was cut off from the main estuary, save for a bridge, by the embankment of the Lostwithiel to Fowey railway in 1869.

Frogmore Street begins near the bank on the right, site of the medieval north gate. The pedestrians walking towards the camera are heading for the High Street and, no doubt, the market.

On the left is A J White, watch and clockmaker (the other half of the building was Barclays Bank, open on Wednesdays), George Howe, draper and grocer, Adam's, baker and confectioner, and the Crown.

Alighting at the railway station, it was now possible to travel comfortably by carriage down Beach Road, admire the Esplanade, and return up Cliff Hill back to your train via Marine Parade and Plymouth

The bank in the centre had become Martin`s, with the building still largely the same as when it was built.

This view from Skerton Bridge looks back down the River Lune to Lancaster.

This view was taken from immediately by Burford Bridge, in the public park on the Oxfordshire bank.

It was here that Jerome K Jerome, two friends and his shamed-looking dog took a train back to London, having abandoned their journey which was written up as 'Three Men in a Boat'.

Next to the stream is the old Methodist chapel of 1860, now a house, but with gravestones still in the back garden. St Mary's church can be glimpsed in the middle distance.

The site is now an office complex for Lloyds Bank.

On the left we can see the long, steeply pitched roof of the Methodist church on Kents Bank Road.

Notice also the stonework at the back of the Town Hall in front of the mill so that a future extension could be keyed in.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

Boroughbridge dates back to Norman times, when a bridge was constructed over the River Ure.

The Hall was originally built in the early 17th century, and is in a beautiful position, overlooking the Cartmel Sands and backed by the Furness Fells.