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This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders

As the motor car became the prime mode of transport after the war, every small village and town sought to capitalize on the additional, but highly seasonal, trade it brought.

Looking west away from the town centre, with West Bank, a school boarding house on the left and opposite houses built around 1900 (a date on the nearest house is 1901).

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down.The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.The picture shows local shops with a proliferation

The steel industry used the docks to import iron and other materials used in the steel-making process.

Outside the row of terraced cottages at Breachwood Green near Hitchin stands a pristine Ford 100E model. In front of one of these houses stood the community's well.

This quiet north Hertfordshire village offers teas in the garden - or something a little stronger at the Three Horseshoes (left). The pub had been the village school in 1873.

On 24 June 1827, William Cobbett wrote in his 'Rural Rides': 'Set out at four this morning for Redbourn. The trees ... are very fine: oak, ashes and beeches; some of the finest of each sort.

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Newnham College was Cambridge's second college for women, and was built a lot closer to the centre than the first one at Girton.

However, some areas of the Durham coast were polluted with spoil dumped directly into the sea from nearby collieries.

This town can be confusing for the visitor, as not only has it two rivers, but also two High Streets.

In the 17th century James Thistleton left money for building a Free School, and in the 18th century Nicholas Sharples from London gave money to it because he remembered his childhood in the village.

The church of St Mary and St Hugh was badly damaged by fire in 1708, which burnt down the spire and melted the bells.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

The camera has been set up on a triangle of land at the junction of the A444 Burton Road with the road to Sheepy Magna, which drifts out of shot to the left.

This photograph shows looms and other equipment installed in a workshop at the technical school; it shows the importance of the cloth industry to the town.

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

The dramatic cliffs and ruined castle at Tintagel have been photographed from many angles over the years.

This remote church sits hidden amongst trees at the head of a valley leading to the sea. The eccentric Reverend Hawker was vicar here from 1834 to 1875.

A corner of the 13th-century castle can be seen at the top right of the picture, though our main subject is the country house built by Thomas Mansel Talbot in the 1770s and its 19th-century additions.

This view is at the junction of Woodside and Rickmansworth Roads and looks south-west towards Oakfield Corner.

Viewed from the Corn Exchange on Market Hill, Luton's main street on a summer's day just before the turn of the 19th century gives little indication of the importance of this thoroughfare.

South-east of East Hoathly lies the large scattered parish of Chiddingly, a typical rolling Wealden-edge village composed of scattered hamlets, farmsteads and woodland.