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The house on the corner of Montrose Street to the left is now another medical centre, with a dental surgery next door.

Because the River Cam itself is not wide enough for conventional races, races called 'Bumps' are held.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

Note the telegraph poles on the left, once a regular sight alongside canals.

Netley, on the east bank of Southampton Water, was another of Henry VIII's coastal forts, though this one was a conversion of an existing building, the gatehouse of Netley Abbey.

Another view of the mountain taken from across the valley with a very small man-made reservoir in the immediate foreground.

Raglan was not divided into wards but into two courts, the Stone and the Fountain.

Harcombe runs roughly parallel to Yawl; it is another long combe running north from the main valley of the River Lim.

This is another view that still looks much the same a century on. The delightful pub on the right is now a newsagents, and mr Acland's business is no more.

The filling station still exists, and there is another one opposite. The road layout has been radically improved.

The Jew’s House is another of Lincoln’s surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

Queens Road, at the top of Park Street, was chosen as the site for both the City Art Gallery and the City Museum.

The station closed to goods traffic on 30 November 1964; both Wilmslow and Chelford closed for goods on 4 May 1970; Styal in 1963; and Handforth in 1958.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

Extensions were added to the palace over the following century after it was first built. Then in 1647 Bishopthorpe was sold to a Colonel White, who added further to the building.

This was taken to the left of photograph 29932, but now from the Walberswick side of the river. We can see the house with a large chimney stack in both photographs.

The International Stores was popular for groceries; also, note the many newspaper and magazine advertisements outside Martins, the newsagent's shop (right).

Mickleton Halt, costing some £512 when it opened in 1937, with shelters, an oil hut, and paraffin vapour lighting on both platforms, was listed for closure in 1941.

However, both the cottage and the 15th- century church tower have lost most of their ivy.

Opened in 1755, it is the third such building to occupy the site - both its predecessors were destroyed by fire.

The rather odd looking and out-of-scale motor car in the centre of the road has been transplanted from another photograph - a common practice in the early days, used to prolong the life of a postcard

Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade. It was refurbished and re- opened in July 1990.

Both boys and girls were admitted, having first had to pass an entrance examination. Under the headmaster, Dr Edkins, the school was renamed Accrington Grammar School in 1921.

This is another scene that has little changed: there is still a chemist's and candy shop on the right and garage on the left, minus petrol pumps.