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This was another popular area where children could paddle and swim. By 1972 a swimming pool had opened at Edisford.

Lea Scott, an optician`s, is on the left and Haworth`s next door still has both men`s and ladies` wear departments at this time.

The first car on the left seems to be parked on the bend; the driver might have got away with this in 1960, but today this would be highly irresponsible.

Much of the life of the town revolves around the Saturday influx to the weekly market.

Another view along the Welland towards Town Bridge, over which the old Great North Road crossed into Lincolnshire.

The inn occupied both of these buildings. The one to the left is 16th-century, with a brick façade of 1759. The taller building was erected in 1826.

Parker was a young seaman, who having arrived at Southampton, made his way across country with another member of the crew.

It was built in 1843; for a further ninety years after this photograph was taken, it offered both a warning and guidance for ships passing north along the white cliffs, and for those heading

Returning to the Square, we are once again looking at Market Street.

This magnificent stone bridge was built in the early 1800s to replace another that was washed away in the floods of 1797.

St Mary's is another restored Norman church. Dating from around 1200, additions were made in the 1400s; a transept was demolished at that time. Restorations were made by John Colson in 1862.

The Swan Inn advertises 'Good Accommodation for Cyclists', and another sign offers 'Horse and Trap or Wagonette for Hire'. Cycling would have been hard going on the rough roads.

Another great Nonconformist preacher dominates the Square at the opposite end of the High Street to John Bunyan.

There are Rows on both sides of Watergate Street.

The precinct is built on the site of the Townsend tram terminus, next to a junction known as the Cross, which is also the name of a good-looking pub on the opposite corner.

A small town at the gateway to Wales, close to the English border and Offa's Dyke, Chirk is noted both for its castle, in continuous occupation from the 13th century, and its position at the entrance to the

Here we are at the junction of Cannon Street and the approach to the new London Bridge; the street was opened by King William IV in 1831, and named after him.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

To the east there is an outlying stone, over which the sun rises at the spring and autumn equinoxes.

Looking West to the Diving Board Coate Water was originally constructed in 1821-22 as a reservoir, and was designed to overcome water shortages on the canal system around the town when

Behind it now is the Brewhouse Yard Museum (of Nottingham life), opened in 1977, and the Angel Row Gallery, both housed in a row of brick houses of about 1680.

The Bible tells us that we should build our houses on rock and not sand – and all the oldest cottages in Burton sit perched on outcrops of sandstone.

The black and white building at the dar side of the street is the Victoria Jubilee Hall, erected in 1887; today it also has a clock to celebrate another jubilee, that of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.

He survived only another two years.