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Barnwood is mentioned in the Domesday Book, at which time it was owned by St Peter's Abbey in Gloucester.

The tearooms were built at the same time as the promenade; generous help was given to the Urban District Council for their construction by Harold Porritt. The swimming pool has not yet appeared.

Very little remains of Clare House Pier. The promenade is busy with people, a number of whom are partaking of refreshments at tables outside the tearooms.

Here on the beach at the Isle of Grain smugglers would land their booty to be transported to London. Behind the beach are concrete anti-tank defences, left over from World War II.

The police station, seen here on the left, now serves as the Bromyard Youth Centre, with the library beside it. The timber building at the far end is known as the Bible House.

The newly-cut village green at South Kirkby, near Hemsworth, gives a neat, urban appearance to this former West Yorkshire mining village.

It is the mid 1950's, the early days of television. Bearing in mind the fact that you cannot get much flatter than Fenland, just look at the height of the TV aerials!

Lymington's parish church at the western end of the High Street, with its prominent cupola and weather vane, was originally built in 1250, though it has many later restorations and additions.

One of Maidstone Zoo's zebras. The grounds of Cobtree Manor, at Sandling, close to Maidstone, now house the Museum of Kent Life, Cobtree Manor Golf Course and a 250 acre park.

Like so many little Kent villages, with its cottages and houses clustered around a small green, Saltwood epitomises the rural atmosphere of the county at the turn of the last century.

Barnaderg bay at the end of Ballynakill Harbour, close to Letterfrack. In the distance is the mountainous tract of Connemara. A rather beautiful boat is drawn up on the rocky foreshore.

The Ship Hotel, on the right of the photograph, was one of the eight inns and taverns that at one time or another stood along this side of the Market Place.

However, it was not all good news. An industrial town's prosperity ebbs and flows with the vagaries of the world market.

This hilltop village overlooks the head of Gillan Creek at the northern edges of the Lizard, close by the Helford River.

Below Acle bridge a provisioner brings supplies of fruit, vegetables, milk (in churns) and other essentials to holidaymakers and people living on houseboats such as this one on the right.

Amberley straddles high ground to the south of Stroud, amid glorious Cotswold scenery.

Though there are one or two motorcars around, the scene is relatively traffic free; people appear to be quite at ease either walking or standing in the middle of the road.

Bundles of Norfolk reed lie stacked at the edge of Ranworth staithe awaiting collection by thatchers. The Maltsters Inn can be seen across the road.

This photograph shows the busy junction at the top of Station Road and Northampton Road, which combine like an arrowhead opposite the Gardens. The Headlands stretches off to the left.

The simple delights of a seaside holiday are all on view.

Boats are drawn up on the beach under the walls of the fishing township, and their nets are drying on the rails beside the slipways.

At this time, Peterborough's people were looking hopefully toward peace after a brutal war whose only consolation had been that God was supposed to be on our side.

A marvellously posed picture of the Ruxley watersplash, at Ewell on the Hogsmill River. It was situated in Ruxley Lane, now the B284.

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf