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This photograph was taken along Roman Bank - which is not Roman at all – and the scene is totally different today.

At the time, television was still a growing medium: the only channel available in Scarborough was the BBC, and only a small proportion of the population had sets.

This area of the city is known as The Cross. In Roman times several roads met at this spot and, until it was demolished during the Civil War, a medieval cross stood nearby.

Shoppers at John Harrison's would have been paying something in the region of 6s 11d a pound for sirloin, 2s 1d for brisket, 2s 11d for streaky bacon, 4s 11d for a dozen eggs and around 3s 5d for a pound

Ten years before the annual Royal Regatta began, the first Oxford and Cambridge University boat race was held on the Thames at Henley.

The small, relatively unspoilt village of Fernhurst lies on the Midhurst to Haslemere road in the north-west corner of Sussex.

The amazing stone carvings at the church of St Nicholas makes this church one of the most perfect specimens of pure Saxon in the country.

The Girls' High School was founded in 1918 in Brueton House at Mount Pleasant, but moved to this purpose-built accommodation in Green Lanes in 1930.

There has been a mill at Alderholt for generations; as with so many mills in southern England, this one was used for its original purpose until recently - in historic terms.

But not many were as grand as this one at Goldthorpe, near Barnsley, built in 1923 with Tuscan-ordered entrance columns and elegant, classical proportions.

The circular object at the top of the sign represents a torc or neck ornament.

Looking at this lonely stretch of coast, with its wild headlands and deserted coves, it is easy to understand why so many local people engaged in smuggling as well as fishing.

Symondsbury has had at least two remarkable parsons, both of whom lie buried within its church. Gregory Raymond served here for 57 years, through much of Victoria's reign.

Pembrey, like its close neighbour Burry Port, always had an active golfing fraternity.

The next sequence of photographs looks at the picturesque village of Geddington.

Once one of the must-be-seen locations in the area, the hotel was sold at the turn of the 20th century; it has been converted into a retirement apartment complex with a restaurant,

By 1839, the parish church of Holy Trinity was becoming a little run down.

We are looking towards Botney Hill at Little Burstead. The long fields in the distance were filled with houses soon after this picture was taken, with the development of the Basildon Drive estate.

Linton-on-Ouse is situated north-west of York in the broad Vale of York.

The old lifeboat station at Runswick Bay on the North Sea coast is rather incongruously painted with black and white half-timbering in this photograph.

Visitors and residents alike gather around the bandstand to hear one of the many bands - military or civilian - which play on summer afternoons. Bournemouth has long been associated with music.

The prominent sign at the top of the hill is that of the Jubilee Inn.

The name 'saltern' suggests that this was a place where early inhabitants of the island would come to the seashore in search of salt for the winter preservation of meat.

Aveton Gifford (pronounced Auton, meaning the settlement on the Avon) stands at the head of the estuary.