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Apart from the ladies with the perambulator, Roberts Park appears to be deserted. It might have been a requirement that the Frith cameraman take the picture with as few people as possible in it.

This handsome terrace of Victorian houses, built in distinctive white 'Pease' brick overlook the Coronation Park.

One Tree Hill and Westley Heights were together designated Langdon Hills Country Park in 1973.

A small-scale start for what is now Highlands End Caravan Park. here we are Looking north towards St Peter`s Church, on The Mount.

Silecroft, near Millom, stands at the southernmost extremity of the Lake District National Park, at the foot of Black Combe (1,970 ft).

The park opened in 1911 on land given by Sir Alfred Hickman, a local industrialist. He was one of several notable 19th-century ironmasters in the area.

The area to the right is the edge of Debden Park - the grounds of Debden Hall that were landscaped in the late 18th century, possibly by the mighty Humphrey Repton.

The scene is virtually the same today except for an extended parking area in the foreground and a different set of retailers occupying the shops.

This rural lane is now unrecognisable, being a tarmac road leading to a car park, the library and a council estate, although the church with its broach spire and the High Street houses on the skyline remain

A small-scale start for what is now Highlands End Caravan Park. here we are Looking north towards St Peter's Church, on The Mount.

Whereas Glasgow Green had been a part of the common grazing land of the burgh since the earliest times, the greening of Glasgow really began in 1852 when the city acquired the estates of Woodlands

A chemist and tobacconist stand on the left, while on the right near the parked car is a petrol pump - of course, it would not be allowed so close to buildings now.

An early form of people carrier, a charabanc, is parked towards the sea wall, while a double-decker bus has stopped to let the day-trippers alight.

The 'No Waiting' sign suggests that car parking has become something of a problem. In the middle distance that other scourge of modern life, the television aerial, is beginning to make an appearance.

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

Opened in 1874, on the site of a disused quarry on the edge of the town centre, the Arboretum is a surprisingly peaceful park where fat, contented ducks loaf around a pool.

With the new houses came the park, a place for gentle exercise or relaxation and a favourite walk for nannies and their prams.

Stoneleigh took its name from Stone's Farm, at the southern end of Nonsuch Park. Its rapid development followed the opening of the railway station on the Epsom to Waterloo line in 1932.

Nearby Parham Park has a fine Elizabethan mansion that is open to visitors during the summer months.The picture shows the common with the village in the background.The young girls are dressed up

Leaving the town by North Street the traveller was soon in the country, passing Marshall's Park on the right.

When the lake and the adjoining parkland was presented to the people of Romford in 1902 by Herbert Raphael it was named Raphael Park. Ever since, it has remained an oasis of calm.

The Romford County High School for Girls was opened in Heath Park Road in 1910. During the First World War the Army occupied the school's extensive grounds.

Perhaps the major difference with today is the lack of parked cars and traffic.

Hare Street existed long before the creation of the garden suburb of Gidea Park but has now all but lost its separate identity.