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Butlin's amusement park is in the foreground.

In this view, the market place is mostly a car park, with market stalls along the south side of the Square - one is visible at the left.

The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.

The Park was formally opened on 1 July 1937. It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges.

It was the country seat of the Duke of Leeds, who lived at Kiveton Park in south Yorkshire. Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle.

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

The van parked by the Gothic-style Methodist church (left) belongs to W Redman & Sons, the butchers, whose premises are next door to G H Handy, a tobacconist`s, which was once

High above here an amusement park was established with an aerial ride, Japanese gardens and a switchback railway.

On the right-hand side of the street by the parked car is the village inn, the Sir Walter Raleigh, named in honour of East Budleigh's most famous son.

When this area became a tortuous gyratory system, she was shifted to Howard Park.

The equivalent today would be the parking clamp and council vehicle pound!

This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses

Opposite a Ford Anglia is tightly parked (left) between a couple of Morris Minis.

Croxley Green lies east of the River Chess, separated from Rickmansworth by the open space of Rickmansworth Park and Croxley Hall's woods.

Moving further downstream towards Marlow, we reach Bisham on the Berkshire side, seen here from the towpath just beyond Marlow's Higginson Park.

Along the Marlow Road at the west end of Kidwell's Park is the former Technical School, dated 1895.

Designed by Shirley Harrison in 1913 in a classical yet economical style, the rendered brick building sits well in its very formal garden, close to Victoria Park and to Lutyens' War Memorial.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.

The building with the two cars parked outside is The Nag's Head (formerly The White Lion), which dates from the first part of the 1700s.

Ten years later it would be a different story, and special parking provisions would have to be made to accommodate the huge amount of road traffic.

Albert Park was given to the town in 1868 by the famous ironmaster Henry Bolckow, who spent some £30,000 in purchasing the land and preparing it.

The town's Parks and Gardens department is justifiably proud of its long record of good husbandry in the Embankment Gardens.

transforming the street about 1845, and the businesses we can see here include A & S Henry (Importers), the famous S & J Watts & Co, and Sam Mendel, a rope and twine manufacturer, who lived at Manley Park