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This is how the River Avon looked just north of the city centre in 1923, forty years before the water meadows on the left were turned into the huge Central Car Park.

Since then, there has been much addition to it, but the integrity of the old building has not been compromised. It is privately owned and not open to visitors.

This view shows the entrance to the harbour dominated by the 95 ft-high Chaine memorial tower, a nineteenth-century reproduction of a round tower.

This one-ninth scale reproduction of Bourton opened for public viewing on the same day that George VI was crowned king in 1937.

An inscription warns all users to first boil any water taken for drinking purposes - the possible consequences of ignoring this advice are not given. Behind the pump we can see a tractor and trailer.

As a seaside town, Budleigh has developed almost entirely since the beginning of the eighteenth century. It was known as Saltre in 1210, and had become Salterne by 1405.

A fire destroyed many of its buildings in 1507. It is hard to believe that it was scheduled for demolition earlier this century.

It was most likely built by William Lightfoot, mayor of Salisbury in 1451 and later MP for Salisbury. Crane Bridge carries the road over the River Avon.

Herrington's window (right) is a treasure-trove of 1960s grocery products: Lyons Swiss Rolls, Brooke Bond Tea, Woodbines, and Bev. It later became the NatWest Bank.

The Chantry Café probably occupies the site of the priest's house.

This picture shows the handsome façade of the Tudor Café on the left; just beyond it is the Anchor Pub, now a Starbucks café.

C Harling catered for those visitors looking for the delights of bathing and boating, and the advertisement on his hut (right foreground) suggests that 'Holloway's Pills and Ointment are family blessings

This very poignant scene does not require words of explanation to anyone who has lived near the sea.

The timber work on the gable end of the building fronting the road remains the same, but the front wall is now all stone, giving the entire structure a much more medieval apperance.

Hunstanton is pictured here while the town was still under construction: note that on the right of the photograph there is no Town Hall.

The centre of attraction in Kingsbridge is the Market Hall (right). Although it has been rebuilt, the supporting pillars we see here are the original Elizabethan ones.

Separated from the main part of the town by the River Weaver, Welsh Row is, as this name tells us, the road leading towards Wales.

The Town Hall is showing the grime of the passing years. The bus shelter rather spoiling its frontage was for those people waiting to go to Haslingden and Bacup.

Cattybrook No 2 Factory was brick built in 1932, 'steel framed with a Georgian- wired glass roof on a single span' (John Bromham's Brief History).

An electric tram service started on 6 February 1904, and continued to operate until 1932. Previously they were steam powered.

On the left is the Duke Hotel, formerly the Duke of Edinburgh Hotel. On the right is the Ritz cinema, showing the X-rated film Boys Night Out and also The Crimebusters.

Many of these solid, brick-built houses are still easily recognisable today. They overlook the cliffs and the photograph is taken towards the east.

The photograph shows the hypocaust heating system for the bathhouse in the foreground and, behind it, the 'Old Work' - the tallest chunk of Roman masonry surviving anywhere in the country.

In the days of the stagecoach, however, the journey could take sixteen hours in the 'Wonder', the fastest coach in England.