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Glasson was first used as a port for ships unable to navigate the Lune to Lancaster from 1787, but the arrival of the canal in 1826, followed by the railway in 1883, increased its effectiveness.

The original Prince of Wales pub was a simple-looking 17th-century structure. It was rebuilt in a suitably gung-ho style in the 1930s (centre left).

In the centre of the picture we can see the Star public house, owned by Brains Brewery - the local brew. The company was owned by Samuel Arthur Brain and his uncle, Joseph Benjamin.

The building on the right was erected in 1922 to house the Redditch Benefit Building Society (founded in 1859).

The bank was built on the ancient line of the Wash; the water behind the bank was released through wooden culverts. The new lands behind the bank were eventually cultivated.

St John's Church stands at the busy crossroads of the High Street and Station Road, which runs towards Fry's (now Cadbury's) chocolate factory at Somerdale.

The Crown Inn (left) survives, along with the village shop on the right and the adjacent little shop, now a beauty salon. Out of the picture to the right is the Old School, dated 1852.

The Victorian Club House was built to make some gesture to the needs of tourists, though not all 19th-century visitors were impressed.

Shops and services have been developed for the growing community that is now well-established as one of Leicester's commuter villages.

This small village had a café, the Dolybont Café (centre), whose sign was visible from the road between Talybont and Borth – the proprietors hoped that holidaymakers would stop on their way to or from

It takes but a little imagination to people the parkland with yeoman and gentry; ladies in muslins 'enduring' the heat of a summer's day and children floating rudimentary craft on the water while dipping

The Greswolde Hotel, or The Greswolde Arms, as it used to be, became an important coaching inn when the turnpike from Birmingham to Warwick and London opened in the 18th century.

The mast of a sailing barge breaks an even horizon, whilst the falling tide exposes mooring chains.

A brisk south-westerly wind snatches sails and flags, rippling the surface of the sea and causing both the sail- and power-driven craft to pitch and roll easily.

It was built in Portland stone around 1904, and most of the buildings put up since have been designed with an empathy for the whole.

With four storeys and standing at sixty-three feet high, this is the tallest of the four main bars, and also the most fortified - it was a self-contained fortress.

Once known as Vicar's Lane and then Little Alice Lane, the street branches off to Minster Yard, where the Theatre Royal opened in 1730 - it was the first theatre in York.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion and the Brown Cow.

Osmington was an ancient manor founded at the time of King Athelstan, though the church we see today is mostly Norman.

The narrow road was just about suitable for the volume of traffic when this view was taken.

The hotel, with its six gables and ponder- ous style, replaced a stuccoed 18th-century building, but it has now gone, to be replaced by the bland misjudgement of 1970s Greytown House.

The view from this side of the river includes the industrial gasworks, but further down river past the weir is the rather more pleasant Myrtle Park, which opened to the public in 1908.

Otherwise, there is little but the parked cars to give a clue to the date of this photograph. The timber- framed buildings, on the left, are believed to date from the 16th century.

This photograph shows the corner of High Street and Bridge Street. The Electricity Service Centre and the London Central Meat Company have been replaced by a beauty salon and a florist.