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In the village there is a memorial to two pioneers of aviation, Lord Brabazon and Charles Stewart Rolls.

The most popular car of the time, the Mini, is parked in the foreground.

It was built on the site of a medieval leper hospital, to serve the nearby almshouses.

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump. This was quite acceptable in the 1950s perhaps, but is not legal now.

The Sealed Knot stage re-enactments of the 1648 assault on Scarborough Castle with musket, pike and cannon.

The Arcade became one of the most fashionable shopping streets in the area. The gothic architecture remained an enthusiasm for builders and architects throughout the late Victorian period.

The corner of the Guildhall building can just be seen on the left.This view looks towards Endless Street to the large vertical Bus Station sign in the distance.

Formerly named 'Hill of St Thomas' or 'Hilstret', it runs from St Thomas's Green to Market Street. Note the 'parked' carts to the left and the busy traffic!

It comprised 775 acres, including woodlands, lakes and a manor house, part of which was turned into refreshment rooms.

This photo was taken in the days of Watney's draught red barrel and 'a Double Diamond Works Wonders' advertising. The only lager on sale was bottled, usually Lowenbrau.

Loch Fad is the largest inland stretch of water on Bute. On the western shore stands the regency style house built in 1827 by the actor Edmund Kean.

Swans are a familiar sight on the Crammer pond. In 1967 the Crammer was walled in, but the wall was soon removed as a result of public protest.

Here we see a delightful grouping of children enjoying a paddle in the sea. In this timeless scene, the guardian white cliffs can be seen in the background.

Out of town shopping and subsequently deserted high streets were still some way off in the future.

It is inscribed with the initials of Stephen Chilman, who modernised it in the 17th century. Today it is a private home.

Colneford House stands on Colneford Hill and overlooks the green we see in W194011. The walls of this fine old house are covered in superb pargeting. Over the central porch is the date 1685.

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564. The garden was planted out with trees and flowers mentioned in the Bard's works.

The gauge between the rails was 3ft 6ins, the same as the tramways of Birmingham, Coventry, Walsall and Wolverhampton.

In this photograph a flock of gulls home in on unattended fish.

The butcher's on the right-hand side of the road is taking every precaution to keep the temperature down inside his shop.

The Wet Dock was constructed between 1839 and 1842, and at the time it was the most revolutionary and the biggest of its kind in the country.

This part of the canal has been recently restored. The track on the left runs from Westwood stone quarry.

It is hard to imagine the wild and deserted heathland of a century earlier when you look at this crowded and formal scene, with properly laid-out gardens, high buildings and a tamed stream.

Until the second half of the 18th century the steel used by Sheffield's cutlers was either imported or was locally made 'shear steel' which was forged from 'blister steel' made in a cementation