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Before the area was opened up for coal mining Ashington was but a farm; it was the Ashington Coal Co who developed the town, building 300 houses for pitmen and their families.

It is high summer, judging by the height of the River Teign and the shirt sleeves of the farm labourers.

Now known as Crown Square, this busy junction at the centre of Matlock has always been the hub of the town.

This card represents some other aspects of the life in and around the town in the 1960s.

Fore Street, leading into the A350 Trowbridge Road, is now a very busy road in and out of town.

The Parade was built in Georgian times as the fashionable residential quarter of the town. Near here, members of the royal family would stay during and after the reign of George III.

In the earlier years of the 20th century, Bere Regis had a reputation as the toughest town in Dorset, forcefully policed by the local constabulary.

But apart from the motor cars and the considerable increase in visitors, the town has changed little since Thomas Hardy worked here as a young architect a century earlier.

Opened in September 1955 on a site facing Oakley Road, the school offered superb education facilities for the more academic students of the town. As

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

Brading is one of the oldest towns on the Isle of Wight, once returning two members to Parliament.

The heart of the town has all the popular shops together and easily accessible to 1950s shoppers.

Gloucester has the gravitas befitting a city that has been an important crossing point on the Severn since time long gone, and has played a significant role in the drama of British history for

Historian Arthur Mee described Botley as 'a delightful old town with quaint shops, handsome houses, and pretty inns'.

High Street c1955 Mayfield's attractive High Street, with its raised brick pavements and fine architec- ture, speaks of the days when Mayfield was an important iron town.

This photograph of South Street shows the premises of the London and County Banking Company on the left.

This is an interesting scene showing the clean, young New Town. A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

The wrought and cast iron span shown here was opened in 1883 and still carries traffic into the town centre.

As the High Street runs down toward the medieval town wall gate and through to the harbour, the influence of Robert Wynn's Plas Mawr can be seen in the transomed stone mullions of the Castle

Until the construction of the A14 bypass, visitors to the town entered via he Old North Road through this narrow medieval bridge and into the busy High Street.

The centrepiece of the town is undoubtedly the great 15th-century mansion of the de Burghs, the Old Hall, set in a grassed square surrounded by Victorian housing.

There were once thirteen cotton mills here, and the town was linked by both canal and rail to other industrial centres all around.

Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.