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Rows of holiday caravans do not conjure up history, but this corner of the Fylde has its share. John Hornbie, a bachelor, lived in that part of Newton known as Scales until his death in 1707.

Mills and rows of cheap housing were swept away during the development of Marlowes in the new town of Hemel Hempstead.

The ornate canopy over the pavement on the left still shelters pedestrians from rain (and sun), but the shop is now a café called Ruby rather than a shoe shop.

It is sometimes almost unbelievable when we realise how much of our heritage has been destroyed during the past century.

The three young lads out in a rowing boat sum up the simple pleasures of the mid 1950s, the quiet void before the rock 'n roll era and the Swinging 60s began.

In the 1920s, Tom Richmond's West End Boating Stage offered rowing, Canadian-style skiffs and punts. A motor boat plied between here and Collingham Bridge.

Most of the village was owned by the Whitbread family, including these rows of 16th-century timber-framed cottages.

Here we see the Parish Church as we look from the High Street through Middle Row, part of the 'old town' of Ashford.

He built rows of houses with gardens for his employees. At the time of his death, 400 workers were employed by him at Dinas Main Colliery.

The terraced walk of the Pantiles, with its row of shops behind a colonnade faced by lime trees, was first laid out in 1638.

Some men would take to the water first thing in the morning, rowing for a while before leaving for work in the City of London.

The terraced walk of the Pantiles, with its row of shops behind a colonnade faced by lime trees, was first laid out in 1638.

This row of houses is still there today, but perhaps looking a little more looked-after.

Notice the small row of cottages on the right with its rendered roof and catslide dormers; the traditional shop fronts; the plain render; and the sash windows.

The row of houses is in Passfield Avenue, so named after a Labour Party peer of the time.

A small row of sandstone cottages were built at the time of the birth of the railway in Salthouse Road; these cottages still stand today, and represent some of the earliest residencies built in the emerging

Its first house, Green Bank, is bigger than the rest and has a bay window, being built for a mill manager or the owner of the row.

His letter helped to save it and in 1878 a decision was made to restore the building to a plan proposed by Scott and city architect Henry Rowe.

To its left the pyramidal tower belongs to the famous Black Boy Hotel on Long Row, demolished in 1963 and replaced by an utterly gutless Littlewoods store.

Since 1965 an extension to the hotel has replaced the low building beside the thatched house. The village staithe is on the right of the picture, with a row of Georgian houses behind.

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

A small row of sandstone cottages were built at the time of the birth of the railway in Salthouse Road; these cottages still stand today, and represent some of the earliest residencies built in the emerging

This panoramic view is very evocative of two major factors in the city's history: the rolling hills which surround it, and the rows of terraced worker's cottages, which testify to the city's once significant