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Another market day, this time in Skipton, the ancient gateway town to the eastern Dales. Note the Dales farmers and their wives sitting lined up to the right of the statue, perhaps waiting for a bus.

Scarborough's sandy beaches are still as popular with northern holidaymakers, who still throng to the seaside town for the donkey rides, candy floss and sticks of rock as they did 50 years ago.

The whole area shown in these two photographs vanished when the new bridge over the river and the new Churchill Road were built to ease congestion in the town centre in 1971.

Facing Undercliff Road are (from left to right) the 1930s Trent's Café; the Town Hall of 1892; the Empire Café; Bent Hill; and the Felix Hotel of 1903, with the Spa Pavilion of 1909 below.

In the distance, and slightly to the left of the clock tower, is the obelisk erected to the memory of Henry Bell. Another famous son of the town was J Logie Baird, the inventor of television.

In 1870 the Victorian yachtsman Sir John Burgoyne brought the Empress Eugenie of France to the town after a perilous channel crossing.

Standing tranquilly a few minutes away from the town centre, this church was built in the 11th century. Over time it has had many changes.

This led to School Lane, the home of the Camberley Infants and Primary Schools, which disappeared when the new town centre was constructed.

To the left of the man coming up the road is the building which was the town's first station, but it could not handle through traffic following the opening of the Ulverston and Lancaster

Hockley was a growing town by this time and a parade like this, typical of development in the 1950s, would have been well used. Shop names can be clearly seen on their shiny facia boards.

Probably the most interesting monument in the town is the altar tomb of Sir John and Lady Butler who were murdered in 1463.

A pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town. The wooden stumps (bottom left) are known as strapping posts, and were used to tie up boats.

Much of the administrative work of the New Forest is done here, and five times a year the Verderers meet in the town to discuss important Forest business.

A large crowd has gathered in Newport Street, part of the Old Town of Swindon. The cause of the excitement is not clear, but it could be a fire at the thatched building round the corner.

It was in another of the town's inns, The Kings Arms, that Sir Walter Scott did the preparatory work and outline for his classic novel 'Kenilworth', set during the period of the last building phase

The Institute was opened in 1855 by Colonel Charles Townley; it was a haven for apprentices taking on night-school to further their careers, and for youngsters wanting to better themselves.

The entry for Southport in one 1921 guidebook states: 'on the once lonely shore has now developed a very attrac- tive seaside-resort and residential town, whose fine streets, notably Lord Street, challenge

In the 1980s and 1990s Bingley Hall, part of the County Showground on Weston Road, hosted several groups such as Black Sabbath and the Electric Light Orchestra.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing rights

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

In the mid 19th century, there were over twenty-five mills working in the town, but the boom and bust years of trade protection caused much unemployment.

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

The first chapter starts, fittingly, with a portrait of the county town, the city of Nottingham, in the 1950s. We start in the heart of the city in Old Market Square.