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What is now called Kingsbury Water Park contains 30 pools like this, set in 600 acres of the Tame Valley.

Parking places have been marked out, including no-parking areas: a sign of things to come.

It was not until 1920 that the Corporation allowed band concerts in its parks on Sundays; they were light years behind many other towns and cities.

Untidy parking at the bottom of the lane at the edge of the dunes shows that the problem of cars at beauty spots has been with us since the very start of the motor age.

It changed hands frequently until in 1926 the hall and some of its surrounding parkland were bought by Solihull Council as the nucleus for a girls' high school and a public park, to be known as Malvern

Other nature trails in the district are Blackstone Riverside Park, Bewdley; Hartlebury Common at Stourport-on-Severn; Habberley Valley Nature Reserve; and Kingsford Forest Park.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

Green Park, situated opposite the north end of Buckingham Palace, was a burial ground for nearby St James's Palace at a time when it was a hospital, but since Tudor times this has been parkland.

Was this the original theme park?

Of Queen's Park's 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers' cottage, a bandstand and a

The greengrocer's shop is still trading, although under another name, but the most surprising aspect to modern eyes will be the evident lack of parking restrictions as evidenced by the line of parked

You can also see the National Benzole filling station in the hotel car park. The first garage in Weedon was opposite the Globe Hotel in the Wheatsheaf car park.

At the divide, under the clock tower, the left-hand fork heads for Pinner village, while the right-hand one will cut through the mediaeval deer park at Pinner Park to Hatch End.

By the more affluent 1950s car ownership had increased, and the resort's long sea front served as a convenient car park.

Almost brand new at the time this photograph was taken, the first multi-storey car park of this size in the country opened on the site of Lee Street, the birthplace of Joseph Merrick, the tragic Elephant

The development of Romilly Park has continued apace. Now the paths are laid out, together with benches alongside them; retaining walls have been built; and gas lamps installed.

Manor Park Road runs along the east side of Manor Park. This view is taken a little way north of its junction with Carshalton Road.

The spire of St Mary's church soars above the town, and to the right is the boundary wall of Petworth Park, the great mansion built by the Duke of Somerset towards the end of the 17th century.

Continuing eastwards along the A52 beyond The Sherwin Arms, we come to a complex of council schools, both primary and secondary, built in Bramcote Hill Park.

Marble Arch stood here in the Mall until 1850, when it was removed to its present position at the top of Park Lane.The Mall, an expansive and formal approach to the Palace, is fringed with limes

Given the lack of car parking (and who would wish to blight such a perfect spot with parked cars anyway?) the best way to visit Cornwell is to walk or cycle there from Chipping Norton.

Hyde Park has been called London’s park ‘par excellence’. Rotten Row, a corruption of route du roi, was a ride set aside for equestrians and fashionable promenaders.

Cuckfield Park was built by Henry Bower, a wealthy ironmaster, who died in 1588 and was buried in Holy Trinity church. The house is not open to the public.

The parked vehicles on the near side of the road are taxis awaiting hire at the rank, whilst those opposite, including a motorbike and sidecar, are clearly untroubled by any form of contemporary parking