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The post office is on the left with its sign outside.

The house on the right is the Beacon, one of the more substantial residences in Victorian and Edwardian Fleet.

Compare this view of St Paul's Church with that in photograph 45443 and you immediately notice the addition of a tall tower which was added in 1907.

A view of the High Street, looking towards the abbey and market cross. Everybody is wearing either a hat or cap, the road is not surfaced, and there is a virtual absence of street lighting.

Devoran developed in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at

This same view of two Tintagel castles could be photographed today.

This leafy approach to the village of Hermitage remains much the same today as it was in the 1950s.

Here we see another view of this superb building, this time showing a more expansive view of the gardens and tennis court.

The civilising influence of his Sunday schools on the people of Gloucester was very stabilising.

Disciplined soldiers stand to attention on the enclosed parade ground of the Duke of Cornwall Light Infantry barracks, off the Lostwithiel Road.

A fisherman attends to his nets whilst a pile of lobster pots are stacked just to the right of the fishing boats.

the busy London Road and the western entrance to Nonsuch Park, this touching memorial and drinking fountain was erected after her death in December 1906 to commemorate the contribution made by the wife of

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

We are looking up Aytoun Street towards Piccadilly, with the dome of the Infirmary building in the square, and the Grand Hotel building dominating the right of the photograph.

This is a good close-up view of the main exhibition building that backed onto Talbot Road, which got its name when Sir Humphry Trafford married Lady Annette Talbot in 1823.

The Post Office of 1839 was superseded by a new one in Bow Street (1891). The air of Victorian prosperity is clear to see.

Here we have a close-up view of the Overhead Railway, which ran from north to south in the city and yet did not hold up traffic going down to the Pier Head.

A beautifully proportioned view of the High Street, looking southwards towards St.

Exeter's canal was built at the request of the city's Tudor merchants and traders, who were exasperated by the weirs on the River Exe that obstructed the free flow of water transport into the city.

Here on the High Street was the busiest part of town, once the coaching and postal services began in 1660.

The stone jetty that we can see in the background was the main terminal for ships to Ireland and the Isle of Man, until Heysham Harbour was cut in the 1900s.

This photograph shows part of a hypocaust (underfloor heating) system and the remains of mosaic floors.

Boots the Chemists' library (behind us, at the corner of Market Street) was upstairs, approached by a wooden staircase.

The picture gives us an idea of just how steep the ridge is upon which the castle is built.