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This is a remarkable view—not least because of the 'kreemy toffee' advertised on the left, showing that incorrect spelling has been used in advertising for many years.

Our clock tower is showing signs of age in this photograph from half a century ago. The marked two colours of brick are not so easy to distinguish fifty years on from our earlier photographs.

The ladies' long frocks in this photograph must have been impossible to keep free of stains.

The Moot Hall, in the middle of the picture, was built c1435 by a member of the D'Arcy family.

The Moot Hall, in the middle of the picture, was built c1435 by a member of the D'Arcy family.

Gweek was at one time a port of some significance at the head of the tidal Helford River, which lies between the buildings and the wooded hillside.

A young girl with a pram stands outside the gates and vanished lodge house of Cane Hill Hospital, built in 1883.

The fishing hamlet of Worbarrow (upper left), is seen here with Hill Cottage below Gold Down and Sea Cottage boathouses facing Worbarrow Bay.

Here, from the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal of 1812, Abergavenny can be seen in the distance.

Rowswell's is still there and carrying on the same trade of paper, tobacco and sweets, but is now also an outlet for Lottery tickets.

Set against the background of the Lakeland peaks, the Castlerigg circle, near Keswick, forms a beautiful setting for what is considered to be one of the oldest stone circles in England.

At that time there were no conservation laws, and anything that was in the way of progress was destroyed.

We are a little closer to the railway station, and an Aldershot and District bus can be seen turning out of the bus station, now Pembroke Broadway.

This is the most northerly of all the photographs in our book. Hammerton Hall lies in a crook of the River Hodder, with a stream called Barn Gill and its waterfall in the grounds.

Houses at the hardly-a- hamlet Lower Hilcot still reflect the general style of Colesbourne.

The dominant tower of the Port of London Authority building in Trinity Square was completed in 1922. The architect was Sir Edwin Cooper, who looked back to the pre-Great War Edwardian era.

If Torquay always saw itself as rather upper-class, Paignton cheerfully catered for the hoi polloi. To this day, it is a candy floss and funny hats sort of place: cheap and cheerful, very cheerful.

This is the building on the far left of picture W97078, but this time was taken in an age before the motorcar was to change the look of our streets for ever.

About eight miles west of Reading, beyond the M4, Englefield House sits in extensive parkland grazed by fallow deer and beside a fine church by George Gilbert Scott of 1857.

Woodbury is one of Devon's largest parishes, and it occupies the great vale between Woodbury Common and the flood plains of the Exe.

This busy junction had cars battling for right of way.

On the hill is the monument to Sir John Barrow, which is a replica of the Eddystone lighthouse.

The ability of some landowners to capitalise on the demand for cheap accommodation after the war led to a large number of caravan sites, such as Winkups, springing up around the Welsh coast

Spennithorne is situated just to the south-east of Leyburn. Part of the church was built from stone taken from Jervaulx Abbey after the Dissolution.