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Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

The sign next to H A Furr's confectionery shop advises traffic for Bedford and Luton to use Tilehouse Street, while traffic for Baldock is directed down Sun Street.

Here the photographer looks down St Thomas Street into Friary Walk, with the corner of the churchyard wall on the right.

Now a crowded suburb of Folkestone, this once rural village on the heights of the Downs just behind Sandgate has been transformed by the construction and rail links accompanying the building of

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

This unusual view of the harbour looks down on the moored boats, and offers insight into their rarely-seen deck gear.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

A vintage tram makes its way down Clifton Drive to Lytham St Anne's. Before the sand dunes were levelled, sand blown on the tram tracks caused trouble.

To the right, Spout Lane goes round to the other side of the village; as the name suggests it is another watery place and there is still a spring that can be reached down some steps from beside the roadway

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

A range of three 16th-century thatched cottages in banded flint and Hamstone is down to the right.

Bridge Street is one of the main streets of the city of Chester, and still follows the original street plan laid down by the Romans.

We are looking down towards the Market and the Town Hall, with the Lloyds Bank building beyond the Savoy Cafe (right) - Lloyds Bank moved to Whalley Road in 1962.

Opposite are signs for a 'Day and Night Telephone' and the star-sign of the Star Tea Company (centre left), with the Royal Lion Hotel further down the street.

In this picture, the camera is looking down Church Street from High Street (renamed Stoke Road in 1959).

The name 'Raleigh' refers to their previous premises in the town, which were burnt down.

Gallowtree Gate runs out of Granby Street and London Road as it drops down to the Clock Tower.

The village green is the largest in the Fylde and is graced by a duck-pond and the original village pump (other pumps were melted down and used for jointing new water mains by the Fylde Water Board).

Boots (in the middle distance on the right) is also still with us, but the Coliseum cinema beyond is now a good museum of the town's history.

The A46 from Bath can be seen snaking down into Nailsworth, which lies at the meeting place of three steep and wooded valleys.

By 1900 it had ceased milling corn and was a timber yard and chair maker's workshop, but it burned down completely in 1912.

The turret above the passageway adjacent to the newsagent contains the town's one-handed clock.

The Bear Hotel was a much-visited restaurant in the 1960s and 70s, but it became rather run-down and lost most of its clientele. It has re-opened following renovation and cleaning.

But as in all English seaside towns, package holidays abroad brought about the demise of these places.