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The college opened in 1876 in two houses in Park Row with just 87 day students and 234 evening students.

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.

To the forefront stands a horse-trough supplied by the RSPCA, and over to the right is one of the enterprises that would have kept the horses busy - Gilbey's Wines & Spirits, with its cart parked outside

Victoria Road, leading to Heath Park on the south side of the railway, provides the photographer with a catwalk for an Edwardian fashion parade.

Where Heath Park Road (on the right) meets Brentwood Road and Slewins Lane (in the centre), meets Manor Avenue and Balgores Lane (on the left), is the Drill public house.

Central Park was laid out behind it. Its grand scale reflects the dramatic increase in size of Dagenham between the wars.

This view shows the grassed great court in front with its railings - they are now gone, and the forecourt is a car park.

Beyond, we can see Yewbarrow Lodge looking out over the tops of the trees and the park and over to Morecambe Bay beyond.

The estate, with its extensive and very beautiful deer park, passed into the hands of the Pole family, who built a Georgian mansion in the grounds of the old house.

The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.

The cenotaph-like War Memorial occupies the left foreground of this view of Heanor's park, while on the right, a group of three 60s youths eye the cameraman suspiciously.

These Cub accommodation huts were ex-service huts made of corrugated asbestos, brought to the park as 'flat packs' to be bolted together on site.

St Joseph's Catholic church stands in Arrowe Park Road, just a short step from the main cross-roads in the village. It was designed by Adrian Scott and opened in 1954.

Blenheim Palace and Blenheim Park attract a large number of tourists to the town.

As for today's children, the park is certainly a place of happiness for them.

Patrons using the outside seating in what used to be the car park can now watch the traffic flow across this busy junction with the Over/Rampton road.

This is Mowbray Park, created in the 1850s out of Bildon Hill and the old quarries on its north face.

The five-columned porte-cochere survived; it stood for a few years in the middle of what became a caravan park, until put out of its misery by the demolition men in 1964.

To the left of the bridge there is now Water Park, new housing.

Evans gave way to Boots, and Cousins ceased trading some years ago, after relocating to Park Street. St Georges Road is to the left, opposite Obelisk Street.

Crowds and some cars gather by the eastern end of Rotten Row in Hyde Park.

The yawls parked on the beach were organised into two companies, the 'Up-towners' and 'Down-towners', with their respective headquarters at the lookout towers.

Cars and a horse-drawn vehicle are parked on the left in an area that is now a bus stop.

Only a century and a half ago Hyde Park was bordered by mire and wilderness. Londoners tended market gardens close by which are now smothered by the buildings of Kensington.