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Meetings were first held at the Red Lion Hotel until a meeting house was established in Church Street; it still stands in the car park of the King's Arms.

This view was taken from immediately by Burford Bridge, in the public park on the Oxfordshire bank.

He lost control of his Spitfire and crashed in Titsey Park.

The freedom of the road, when roadside parking was an inalienable right, can be seen in a view westwards to the Town Hall (centre) from opposite the Golden Road Cafe (far left).

Again we see an empty road, but motor traffic has made an appearance in the form of two parked motor cars, one alongside a striped sign post to Clitheroe.

This was a centre for smuggling in the 19th century, with tunnels under what is now the car park.

The further building is the Lord Nelson, whose sign has been moved to the car park.

The park, situated along the Yarm Road, was the gift of Sir Robert Ropner, and was opened by the Duke and Duchess of York on 4 October 1893.

As part of providing civic local facilities, the council erected a large open- air swimming pool in the town centre in the 1930s on the site of Richmond House, between King Street and the river

The delicate ironwork tracery of the pier seating, and a solitary bathing machine parked by the pier pavilion are further examples of Boscombe`s Victorian origins.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

The City Hall is being re-furbished at a cost of over £12-million, the money coming mainly from the European Union and central government; Weston Park Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery are undergoing

The lorry and tractor are parked casually – perhaps the owners are drinking at the Chequers, or visiting Lloyds Bank (left); a postman is delivering letters (right).

Local buses are parked in front of the shops, awaiting their passengers.

Bridge Stores (right of centre) advertises Colman`s Mustard in much more basic style than the Victorian sign that used to look down on the central part of the street.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

imagine the mill pond that existed in Giraldus Cambrensis' time located in the flat area to the right of the castle; in this photograph the area is occupied by caravans, and today it is a car park

Handcross Park house is now a school.The buildings in the photograph are little changed today.The village was by-passed in 1959.

Halland Park Farm is the remains of the mansion built in 1595 to replace Laughton Place as the principal house of the Pelham family.

The Duke of York is now advertising from the top of its porch, and cars can park outside.

The grandeur of both St Peter's and Market Hill are shown to best advantage in the days before car parking.

The market is now filled with parked cars, vans, lorries and buses, with at least seven traffic signs in sight.

Behind and just to the right of it is a rare view of the town gasworks with its own quay for unloading coal in the background; it has long since been demolished to become a car park.

The view is little changed since the 1950s, apart from more parked cars.