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Nearby Parham Park has a fine Elizabethan mansion that is open to visitors during the summer months.The picture shows the common with the village in the background.The young girls are dressed up

Leaving the town by North Street the traveller was soon in the country, passing Marshall's Park on the right.

When the lake and the adjoining parkland was presented to the people of Romford in 1902 by Herbert Raphael it was named Raphael Park. Ever since, it has remained an oasis of calm.

The Romford County High School for Girls was opened in Heath Park Road in 1910. During the First World War the Army occupied the school's extensive grounds.

Perhaps the major difference with today is the lack of parked cars and traffic.

Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.

The Ship Inn at Gidea Park served the travellers on the Essex Great Road in the days when stage coaches thundered through on their way from London to East Anglia.

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

The village church is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and parts of it date back to the 13th century. It actually stands inside the grounds of Clandon Park.

Note the cars of the period, including the Jaguar parked at the side of the building.

The little cottages between the first two parked cars in this photograph have gone, and the Crown Inn on the right disappeared some years ago.

Today, there is no caravan park, the upper storey timber cladding has gone, and the pub's name has changed to Jack-in-the-Green. Where our photographer was standing there is now a speed camera.

Opened in 1883 on the site of the old Crockherbtown Theatre, with money raised by a consortium headed by James Howell, the Park Hotel 'designed for high-class family business', was to epitomise the

After years of fundraising initiated by the 'Western Mail' newspaper a war memorial was finally constructed in Cathays Park's Queen Alexandra Gardens.

This footbridge, now gone, went across the river Marden from the footpath to the left, and led into a bungalow which was situated on what is now Somerfield's car park.

Either way, it is nice to relax and have refreshments among the wooded hills, especially after driving there in convertibles such as those parked at the gateway.

The deserted open ground has since been transformed into the Pentewan Sands Holiday Park. Pentewan village is on the far side of the beach, and two sailing boats set off from the harbour pier.

A Pavilion by James Tait (1834-1915), typical of the early 1880s, with its hints of Gothic merging into Tudor fram- ing, making a valuable contribution to the ambience of the park, which was laid out

This monastic cell of St Mary's Abbey in York, of which the chancel remains, is now in a municipal park and is surrounded by a bowling green and fenced football pitch.

There are 600 parking spaces here, and the railway station is less than a mile away, making Farnborough useful to London commuters.

North Street leads out of the town in the direction of Cowdray Park, with which the town is most closely associated.

Kirkby's Market Place taken nearly 20 years after photograph No 59539, and showing few changes apart from the motor vehicles; these include the charabanc which plied between Lancaster and Sedburgh, parked

This public park, with its neatly-trimmed shrubs and bushes, occupies the former site of the vineyard of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1082 by Bishop Gundulf.

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with