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In that last glorious summer before the Great War, the town is looking a little more lively, with some early motor cars visible.

In the centre is the old cross: the blur to the left is a pony and trap moving too quickly for the photographer's camera. The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

Originally, College Green was the burial ground for the Augustinian abbey, founded by Robert Fitzhardinge in 1148, and for a hospital, founded jointly by Maurice Berkeley of Gaunt and his nephew, Robert

Rochdale abandoned its tramway system in November 1932; it was a casualty of the Depression, along with many of the town's cotton mills.

Even so, the population then was about 6000.The town’s development received a boost in 1945 when Rover announced their intention to abandon their Coventry plant and concentrate production at their

Lowestoft's convalescent home was a gift to the town in 1877 from William Birbeck, who was himself ill – he died in 1897.

The use of the word 'gate', meaning a road or street, comes from the Old Norse 'gata', and is another clue to the antiquity of the town.

In Wallingford's town centre is a fine Market Place.

Before the area was opened up for coal mining Ashington was but a farm; it was the Ashington Coal Co who developed the town, building 300 houses for pitmen and their families.

It is high summer, judging by the height of the River Teign and the shirt sleeves of the farm labourers.

Now known as Crown Square, this busy junction at the centre of Matlock has always been the hub of the town.

This card represents some other aspects of the life in and around the town in the 1960s.

Fore Street, leading into the A350 Trowbridge Road, is now a very busy road in and out of town.

The Parade was built in Georgian times as the fashionable residential quarter of the town. Near here, members of the royal family would stay during and after the reign of George III.

In the earlier years of the 20th century, Bere Regis had a reputation as the toughest town in Dorset, forcefully policed by the local constabulary.

But apart from the motor cars and the considerable increase in visitors, the town has changed little since Thomas Hardy worked here as a young architect a century earlier.

Opened in September 1955 on a site facing Oakley Road, the school offered superb education facilities for the more academic students of the town. As

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

Brading is one of the oldest towns on the Isle of Wight, once returning two members to Parliament.

The heart of the town has all the popular shops together and easily accessible to 1950s shoppers.

An important sailing centre, Lymington was originally a Saxon port with shipbuilding in operation between the Norman era and the 18th century.