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The importance of Salisbury to the military establishment after the war can be seen in this picture of Fish Row, just behind the Guildhall.

These are some of the substantial red brick houses built along the coast at Westgate in the prosperous late Victorian era—the 1880s and 90s.

Bournemouth's Pier stands above the original mouth of the Bourne Stream. Its construction marked the town's commitment to its role as a resort.

The tower was part of a 35-acre development that also included Tower Buildings and Tower Gardens.

There are more bicycles than cars in this 1950s view of Sheerness High Street.

Strictly speaking, Arrowe Park Hotel is in Woodchurch to the south of Upton. Possibly the only change since the 1950s is its clientele - visually it is much the same.

The Town Hall stands prominently in the centre of the High Street and dates from 1735.

The banner on Boots' Corner advertising Warrington's annual Walton Horse Show suggests this photograph was taken near Whitsuntide.

Cranbrook has a wealth of old buildings, many dating back to the 16th century, when Cranbrook was the centre of the cloth industry. The buildings on the left remain little changed.

It is one of only a few churches in the county untouched by the Victorian restorers, and like many of the originals has only a bellcote and is painted white.

Now apartments, the convent was established c1850 by the Religious of the Assumption, who ran a girls' boarding school until 1993.

Sherwell Church (left) also belongs to the university and has been converted, and St Matthias, at the top of the hill, is still an active centre of worship.

The Wish Tower, in the distance on the left, was built as a Martello Tower, one of over one hundred round-tow- ered fortlets built along the south coast during the Napoleonic Wars.

Lansdowne Terrace, now the Lansdowne Hotel, and, at the right, the Wish Tower Hotel, was the first major devel- opment west of the Wish Tower; it is in the style of the earlier stucco terraces, with

Daniel Defoe, speaking of Leominster, described it as having 'nothing very remarkable about it, but that it is a well-built, well- inhabited town.

Opposite Ludham Church an interesting row of thatched cottages adjoins two small Georgian houses, one with a slate roof and one with Norfolk tiles.

Kettering resident remembers the town centre in the 1920s and 1930s when policemen, with arms outstretched, directed what little traffic there was, errand-boys cycled through the streets loaded with baskets of

A Howe, a ladies and gents' tailor, is now a florist; the coach builders' on the left has been replaced by a modern supermarket.

A pair of boats prepares to enter a lock. The left-hand one – the 'Stafford' – sports its Fellows, Morton & Clayton livery, a company that stopped trading when the canals were nationalised in 1948.

Although only a few miles from Plymouth to the south and Tavistock to the north, Bere Alston feels quite remote, situated on the peninsula between the Tamar and Tavy.

It is a classic example of contour cutting by the engineer Samuel Simcock: there are no locks, because the canal hugs the contours of the land.

The working classes were very superstitious and, although wary of the gypsies, their curiosity would get the better of them and they would pay to buy the wares or have their palms read.

For decades, music was a feature of everyday life during the Harrogate season. Late morning concerts were held both at the Crescent and the Winter Gardens.

When it opened in 1898, the pier was the terminus for the Swansea and Mumbles Railway, whose trains can be seen taking people to their destination on the first official day of pier business.