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A horse-drawn omnibus can be seen in the distance in this Edwardian photograph.

Established by the Romans on the banks of the river Avon, it was known to them as Aquae Sulis; the Roman bath-house is now open to visitors. The river here passes over a weir.

Here we see the town's newly-built lodging houses and seaside villas, with an early motor car on the left in front of the Belgrave Hotel. Well-dressed holidaymakers stroll along the seafront.

The Old Farm Stores and Post Office, on the left, was originally a domestic house. By 1834 it had become the farmhouse for Hutton Farm. It closed down as a shop and post office in the late 1970s.

Snow's is now a house caleed, appropriately, No 1 Snows Court.

The large building in the centre background is the Merchants' House, opened in 1877. Upper storeys have since been added.

From the 17th century it was a pumping house for the town's water supply - the wheel was turned by horses. Nearby we can see the York Water Works Offices.

Here the merchants of the city built their imposing new houses, most of which remain today.

The Picture House on North Street was still doing excellent business, in spite of competition from the nearby and more modern Ritz cinema (1938).

Over the last two hundred years erosion has seen two rows of houses and a road crash into the sea.

This view is dominated by Tower House, the premises of John Evans & Co, outfitters.

In 1880 P F S Amery wrote: 'until very recently the piazzas were occupied by the stalls of various traders whose right to their 'standing' was independent of the owner of the house before which it was

Looking northwards, we can see a good selection of 18th- century architecture; perhaps the most attractive is St Edward's House (next to the three-storey hotel) with Corinthian-topped

For centuries Rottingdean was a typical downland village, but its character was radically changed when modern roads and houses were constructed at the seaward end.

Olton Boulevard East was created from former country lanes in 1928, to serve a vast municipal housing estate reckoned to be a model of its kind.

A massive building programme changed the face of Wednesfield in the 1950s, and tower blocks like these seemed for a while to be the answer to the housing problem.

The fine bay windows of this house have been filled in with concrete and adorned with graffiti, while other windows have been boarded up.

Amongst the facilities provided by the Cliftons was the old lifeboat house, built largely from cobbles and overlooking the promenade wall.

Its site is now occupied by a housing development.

In the 18th century, fast flowing streams powered a variety of mills around the village, and many of its cottages date from this period, built to house an expanding work force.

Spacious period houses line its streets and lanes, built by the affluent who came then, as now, to retire here.

We can see the house with a large chimney stack in both photographs. The tidal river is the remains of the Dunwich river, diverted in the storms of 1289.

It incorporated the original coffee house which the club purchased in 1770 when they moved here from London. The National Horseracing Museum is behind the left section of the façade.

Today it is a private house. The Lloyd family, who set up Lloyds bank, came from Meifod – but the bank in the photograph is the Midland!