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of the fine, applied and decorative arts was bequeathed to Glasgow in 1944, but it was not until 1983 that the Burrell Collection, in a modern state-of-the- art complex, was opened in Pollok Park

The great hunting parks remained, although partly used for farming. Woolcombing and framework knitting became the principal industries in Loughborough.

When Henry VIII was hunting in Sutton Park with Bishop Vesey he was charged by a wild boar, but before the animal could harm the king it dropped dead with an arrow through its heart.

It was renovated in 1984 and still stands, but it is well-hidden in woodland at Beckett's Park in Headingley.

Oliver Cromwell's statue is now in Wythenshawe Park, minus his sword.

On the right, the two Ford Populars and the Morris Eight Series 1 tourer are parked outside the Home and Colonial Stores (now a pizza parlour and a video hire shop) and the block of three chain shops -

The tennis courts are a car park.

Opposite the fine Georgian house with the modillion cornice was Simmons and Sons which is now the entrance to Waitrose supermarket and a backland car park.

When Henry VIII was hunting in Sutton Park with Bishop Vesey he was charged by a wild boar, but before the animal could harm the king it dropped dead with an arrow through its heart.

Military vehicles from the local Vauxhall Bedford factory were tested at Wardown Park during wartime.

A market is still held on Thursday and Saturday - during the re-paving in 1996, the market was held in a local car park.

There were also two brick mounting blocks about 15 inches high for the less agile people to mount their horses: one outside Burgesses the bakers (opposite the present car park) and one by the entrance

The Market Place is now mainly a car park and pathway.

In 1938 the Regal cinema opened in Mengham Road, but it was demolished in the 1960s, and in its place is Mengham car park. In 1959 Hayling's population was 6,000; today it has tripled.

late 18th century, built in the form of a neo-classical villa by Samuel Pole; a short distance along the Bourne is Grovelands, a beautiful house designed by John Nash in 1797, and still within its own park

The Market Place is now mainly a car park and pathway.

Springs bubble up through the underlying sandstone, just as they do at Spring Grove House (now the Safari and Leisure Park).

The grand edifice was gutted and used as a car-park before its demolition in 1977 to make way for the St Enoch Centre constructed in 1981-89, a vast shopping complex which looks more like a railway

In 1580 Elizabeth had leased Carey the Manor of Berkhamsted, which included the ruined castle and the deer park, at the nominal rent of one red rose.

In this view of the park we can see the helter-skelter, the water chute and the big dipper.

Car parking was also problematical, and when the former market site became available the wheels of progress began to move.

From 1959, the 450-acre site was slowly developed as a pioneer shopping park.

The Abbey of St Mary de Pratis, which is laid out in the north- west angle of the park, was one of the largest in England of the Augustinian Order.

Harold G Turner Born in nearby Ardingly in 1885, Harold Turner became a well-known architect, particularly after his successful Gidea Park project in Essex in 1910.