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The entrance portico of this hotel is presently rather dilapidated, which gives a somewhat false impression of the extensive additions to the hotel behind what is seen in this photograph.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.

East Cliff is a popular spot of rough grassland where the downs meet the sea. The beach could be reached by a series of steps known as 'The Hundred Steps'.

The Providence Chapel was built in 1828, and is one of Cranbrook's most memorable buildings. It has a seven- sided front made of timber, cleverly grooved to look like stone.

Helensburgh was described as '…a favourite watering place, is pleasantly situated at the mouth of the Gare Loch, and is laid out with the mathematical regularity of an American city'.

A view which highlights the growth of industrial Kegworth. In 1965 uncomfortably large utilitarian factory/stores nestle close to the church, among the irregular tiled roofs of an earlier era.

This attractive view of the Close looks westwards towards Choristers Green.The original campanile (Bell Tower) was behind the house on the left of the picture, and was removed in 1789.

Note the Ever Ready delivery van in the centre of the picture and the branch of Hepworths on the right.

The cliffs south of Milton are renowned for the profusion of fossils to be found. Examples can be seen in local museums and at the Natural History Museum in London.

Post-war expansion of Cambridge pushed the suburbs into outlying villages. We can see early signs of the requirement to control traffic flow with the now ubiquitous Keep Left bollards.

This was the site of the ancient gateway into Nottingham from the west until 1743.

Brockenhurst is a railway junction well-known to travellers to Southampton, Bournemouth, Lymington and the Isle of Wight.

A tram travels along the main street of Parkstone nearly a century ago.

Weymouth owed its success to the patronage of George III.

A good introduction to Dorset would be to follow the course of the River Piddle from its source to the sea, passing through some delightful villages along the way.

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

Red Lion Square takes its name from the famous old inn on the left of this photograph.

At Furnace, a small town hugging the western shores of Loch Fyne, iron-smelting works were established in the early 19th century.

Early inhabitants of the High Street faced a range of fierce punishments if they transgressed the law, including flogging, mutilation and death by hanging.

By 1921 commerce has taken over, but few of the buildings shown survive today.

It is accessed via Reservoir Road, off Eastern Avenue. It now houses the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, and affords massive views of the city and, of course, the cathedral.

Pontefract General Infirmary now overlooks the bowling green in this oasis of greenery near to the town centre.

Three-storey stone cottages on Market Street can just be seen at the top of this photograph. There is another man- made weir above the rocks in the Thrutch.

At the southern end of the Close is Harnham Gate, one of the three gates that served the cathedral; it is contemporary with the original 14th-century cathedral wall.