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The outdoor market, held weekly on Market Hill and Park Street, moved into the Plait Halls in 1925 and became a daily occurrence in the process.

Beach shops now fill the front garden, and there is a car park in the café garden.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

The pub is the King Ethelbert; it is still there today, though it is now surrounded by amusement arcades, tea and burger vans and a car park.

St Michael's Church, demolished in the next century to make room for a car park, can be seen in the centre.

From the modern, bustling entertainment of Drusilla's Zoo Park we finish this chapter in Wilmington, on the east side of the Cuckmere River.

By the 1950s the Market Place had become a car park and the statue had gone.

The 13th-century church of St Margaret, on the edge of the park, was struck by lightning in 1598 and largely burned to the ground.

The canal had fallen into disuse by the 1930s but has been gradually restored by the British Waterways Board, with support from the National Park and others since 1968; it was reopened to the public in

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

Having Avenham Park in the background does enhance the pleasure of a walk over the bridge.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.

So, instead of being a sensitive pedestrian and architecturally friendly scheme, the area is now a peculiarly urban villagescape, half car park and half odd seating which one would hesitate to use

Meads Road, of course, had old trees already: a villa is seen on the right, and on the left carriages shelter from the sun alongside the flint wall fronting Saffrons Park, now a sports ground.

The drive leads to the Tudor mansion, an E-plan house started in 1577 and set in a Tudor deer park; it was restored to Tudor appearance after Georgian alterations in the last century.

Behind the photographer is the very large Broadoak Park, home of the Worsley Golf Club; the short road leading to the clubhouse is called Stableford Avenue.

Quernmore Park Hall lies just over a mile north of the village.

The area has good parking and a tea shop, where it is possible to hire beach tents; refreshments can be purchased and taken on trays directly onto the sands.

The area has good parking and a tea shop, where it is possible to hire beach tents; refreshments can be purchased and taken on trays directly onto the sands.

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.

Apart from a larger car park and shortened chimney stacks, little has changed in this view since the 1950s.

This photograph was taken from the old bridge that led onto the island, and now leads to the Upper Reaches Hotel and its car park.

The Asshetons looked after their village.Almost all the villagers had jobs on the estate.The Roman road from Ribchester to Ikley passes through Downham Park at the end of the village.The grave of