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At the same time as the rebuilding, the osier beds on the northern side were taken up and Riverside Park was created.

Even the car parking is beginning to lurch towards the need for yellow lines, and all that goes with them.

Incense-making has taken place at Prinknash for many years, and a Bird Park helps to attract visitors. The celebrated Prinknash Pottery has recently closed, sad to say.

More recently light engineering and commercial enterprises have become part of the business park developments.

The houses on the right survive, but those to the left of the monument were swept away and replaced by a small park, just one of many 'improvements' after 1963.

To the south, Denne Park prevented expansion across the River Arun.

A Morris 18 (left) is parked behind an Austin 16 and PG 8782 (right) has 'GB' plates from a foreign tour.

Nottingham University College achieved independent university status in 1948; by then it stood in a park expanded from its original 60 acres to nearer 180 acres.

Refurbished and divided into a park and playing fields, the gardens were reopened in August 1937 as the Botanic Gardens and King George Playing Fields.

It runs beneath the car park, but has now been blocked off.

The fact that is was possible to park on the side of the hill without a problem makes this photograph one to be treasured. The building on the left is K Block, with F Block on the right.

The Rover 90 is parked outside a row of late 19th-century terraced cottages. These have been replaced by a row of similar, but modern, terraced houses.

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

No parking restrictions were in place at this date, and the Market Place served as the bus station. Car ownership was still a minority activity, despite the number of cars we can see here.

North of Fir Tree Road and just beyond Banstead railway station is Cuddington Park Golf Course; the name is a reminder of the parish and village of Cuddington, which was cleared for Henry VIII's Nonsuch

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

This has long since been demolished, and the area today is usually clogged by parked cars.

Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock

An adjacent footpath leads to a viewpoint over the Severn Valley and then down past Hallow Park, where Elizabeth I hunted in 1575, to the river itself.

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

Beyond the delivery van parked on the same side as The George Hotel stands a row of cottages once quaintly named Ship's Yud Row.

So, instead of being a sensitive pedestrian and architecturally friendly scheme, the area is now a peculiarly urban villagescape, half car park and half odd seating which one would hesitate to use

Municipalised now, this reduced park was, in the 16th century, owned by Geoffrey Walkaden, but by 1625 it had passed to Joseph Jackson, a merchant, in whose family it remained until it was removed by marriage

The grandiose scheme came to nothing as the First World War intervened, and the remains of the Old Fox lay rotting in Victoria Park.