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It was taken over by Boots, whose shop on the right displays a flag advertising the Booklovers' Library.

To the right is the red brick gabled London and Provincial Bank, and nearer to us is Mrs Carter's ladies' hairdresser's. Beyond the car was R Charlish, motor engineer and cycle agent.

Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo, 'Newton and Noss' to all locals, line the opposite banks of the Yealm estuary.

Less than 20 years have passed since No 52472 was taken, but motor vehicles in the High Street and The Square now outnumber horse-drawn ones by nine to one.

Right of the Westminster Bank stands Manor Court, which was built as a merchant's house in 1550; in the upper rooms, some ceilings still retain their fine plasterwork decoration.

The extensive sandy beach is protected by a bank of sand which has a natural windbreak of high fir trees.

Caravan camps have become much more sophisticated since the 1950s, but they also had lots of fun in those days, you can be sure of that!

This view from the west shows John Smedley's massive Hydro on the opposite side of the valley, which brought spa town prosperity to the town after its erection in 1853.

Ellesmere House is beautifully sited just above the main road and overlooking the Mere. The building is now used as a residential home.

This hospital was built as a replacement for the cottage hospital in Bank Street. Mrs Ludlow Bruges of Seend was the benefactor who gave the hospital to the town.

The plateau-top village of Youlgreave stands between the valleys of the Bradford and the Lathkill; it is a prosperous settlement based on lead mining and farming.

This photograph, taken from the east bank of the river, south of the Barley Mow pub, manages to exclude George Gilbert Scott's rather fine 1864 seven-arched brick bridge over the river.

The River Avon flows serenely through Ringwood, and not far away is Fridays Cross.

On the east bank of the Cuckmere River opposite Alfriston, Lullington is very much a shrunken medieval village, with its isolated church a good quarter of a mile north of Lullington Court, the farm complex

The Royal Crescent looks out over a field which drops away to Victoria Park beyond, also fields when the Crescent was built.

Two buses are making their way along the street towards the camera; the one nearest us is on its way to Westgate.

The scene of Falstaff's miseries in Shakespeare's 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', Datchet stands on the Thames bank, opposite Home Park.

This is one of many ferries across the river, now almost all gone. The ferryman's cottage remains, but is now inaccessible and very private, with the river path blocked by a gate to its east.

Situated at the top of Lythe Bank, about four miles from Whitby, this charming 17th-century coaching inn still serves beer and refreshments to the public.

On the right is the Albany Hotel and the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Sheffield was just one of a handful of authorities at this date who still had faith in their tramway system.

Today the whole focus of the shopping centre of Widnes has moved from the area around Victoria Square about a mile away so that it is now centred here and the street has become a pedestrian

Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.

In this photograph we look west from the tip of Mill Meadow Island towards the Embankment and the north bank of the river.

Standing in the centre of the town at the junction of roads to Yorkshire and the north is the extravagantly ornate Union Bank Building, occupied by Barclays in the 1950s and now by the