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The castle is set on a knoll overlooking the River Don.

This view shows some of the well-laid-out flower-beds that Bridlington had a reputation for producing.

Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft. Because of the width of the river, vessels were launched sideways.

This view shows the square just before the abandonment of the tramway system. In the background a trolleybus is about to pass a tram as it heads towards the Town Hall.

A view from the Shire Hall along what was to become a heavily congested street, until the building of the new relief road, with a string of Georgian and early Victorian shopfronts overshadowed by the

There is thought to have been a Saxon church on this site before AD700, and the Norman structure, dedicated to St Andrew, is built on Saxon foundations.

The ancient Guild of St George almshouses are pictured in the year they were restored to provide accommodation for five retired people.

The park is the home of Abergavenny Rugby Football Club, and their grandstand can be seen in the middle distance.

The view from the 1833ft summit of the Blorenge is one of the most spectacular in Wales; but the road that crosses the mountain from Blaenavon to Govilon and Llanfoist is fairly narrow and steeply

How many of these men came back wounded to be cared for at Frensham Military Hospital, based at a large mansion, Frensham Heights? How many were to return alive by the end of the following year?

The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley. It is almost divided into twin lakes by a central delta.

The elegant 75-foot spire of Christ Church is prominent in the landscape; the old ironworks and spoil tips are behind it. The terraces of Newtown are to the right.

This column was built by public subscription in 1817 to honour a local landowner, Henry William Paget of Plas Newydd.

The currents and eddies in this part of the Menai Strait can be treacherous. HMS 'Conway' was a training ship run by the Mercantile Marine Services to train officer cadets.

Stickle Ghyll, which flows down from Stickle Tarn, passes under the bridge in this photograph, which was taken looking towards the 2,403ft summit of Harrison Stickle, the highest of the pikes.

The thatched boathouses in the background and on the left of the photograph are still in excellent repair, but a few of the trees have been felled.

Two small boys can be seen riding along on the pavement by the George Hotel. The pub is still there today, and so is what is known as the Desborough Cross to the right of it.

Road improvements in the 1960s swept away these stone houses to make way for the greater convenience of the motorist. The mature cyclist is about to free-wheel into the High Street off to the right.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

No doubt it looks tame to the present generation reared on the terrors of Alton Towers, but to a boy in the 1950s it was quite scary enough.

The name of the pub on the left is still the same - Nelson Butt – but it is now a Free House and no longer belongs to Bateman's.

The Lockwood Beck Reservoir is situated at the junction of the A171 Guisborough-to-Whitby moor road with the road to Castleton.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

St Mawes is one of the coastal defence castles built by Henry VIII in the 1540s. It has a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf.