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A popular clifftop band concert at Babbacombe. Once a small village, Babbacombe has long been subsumed into Torquay and struggles to keep its own identity.

The new outside market stalls which stretch along the Peel Street side and the back of the Market Hall were built in 2003 to replace the concrete umbrella market, which was demolished in 2002.

Looking up the harbour, we can see a small Dutch coaster loading china clay at two chutes. Such motor ships were common around the Cornish coast from between the wars until the 1970s.

The Backs, which are the lawns, meadows and gardens behind the colleges which back on to the River Cam, are a favourite place for recreation.

Originally a 13th-century farm, the building became a halt for packhorse trains carrying wool across the hills.

The Kennet and Avon Canal, authorised by Act of Parliament in 1794 and opened in 1810, linked Bristol with London, cutting a canal from the Avon in Bath to the Kennet, which was then canalised to the Thames

The Leas bandstand was built in 1885. A large crowd has gathered to hear the band, including the lady in the invalid carriage in the centre of the photograph.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street. Kempock Place is just in view on the extreme left of the picture.

The small boy in the sternsheets of the boat being rowed by the white-bearded man in the peaked cap seems singularly unimpressed by photography, unlike the youth in the stern of the rowboat

On the extreme left we can just see the so-called Spa ladder, leading to the East Pier. On the right side we can see the back of the Cholmley School, which was endowed by Lady Cholmley in 1869.

With the turret of the Chine Hotel, which served as a landmark for Channel shipping, prominent in the back- ground, the elegant row of Victorian houses along Undercliffe Road bears tribute to the enduring

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families. At this time the Headcorn to Tenterden railway line was opened.

At the centre of Dalton Square stands a bronze statue of Queen Victoria guarded by four lions, given to the city by Lord Ashton. He also donated the new Town Hall, which stands at the back.

The ornamental floral beds that here border St James' Street have now been removed, but buses still use the area as their terminus.

The ornamental floral beds that here border St James' Street have now been removed, but buses still use the area as their terminus.

This view from an upper window across Eastgate shows the north side of the minster with the back wall of the cloisters on the left.

Small inshore fishing boats are drawn up at the back of the harbour, where two jetties were built in the 1890s to provide shelter and encourage this local industry.

Very much a village pub, the Swan has a beer garden at the back to cater for the local populace, who number around 500, and visitors who come this way to walk round this quiet spot.

Most of Market Street was taken up by the now demolished Red Lion.

Photographed in the year it was built, this church had seating for 800 people, and a commodious schoolroom at the back.

This settlement probably got its name from Andrew Wysmon, a tenant knight at the time of Edward II's reign.

At the bottom of the street is the bridge over the River Bollin and the Manor house.

At about this time, Rutland villages began to acquire small housing estates, usually on the edges. At first they were council houses, and later private developers came in.

In this view from the west, the man in the straw boater looks past the school with its attached hipped-roofed master's house to Lea Hill, now known as Fittleworth Common.