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This view was taken in Albert Road looking down Widnes Road.

Looking south down the main road towards Wilmslow, with the road over to Macclesfield going off to the left, affluent Cheshire is driving towards the viewer and the young couple wait for

Set in the heart of Broadland, it has been called 'little Venice', with soft green lawns spreading down to the water's edge.

The pale-coloured cottages, where a man is standing in a doorway (centre right), were pulled down to make way for the Foresters' Hall, the home of the Electric Picture Theatre and other events.

The rectory burned down in the 1950s. It was a Tudor building inside a later shell: those chimney-stacks betray its true vintage.

West Bay only acquired its name in the 1880s when the railway was brought down to its picturesque harbour.

Kendal Castle was built by the Normans to the east of the town, probably by Ivo de Tailbois, the first Lord of Kendal in the late 12th century, and it still commands good views to the north and

There is not much traffic—a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger—in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

The lorry coming down the hill (left) is a sign of changing times; by the fifties most goods were being moved by road, and the ketches seen in photograph 63963 (p.73) were long gone.

A small village, built to house Parham Estate employees, Cootham is situated near to the foot of the downs.?

A little further down the hill that we see in No O74048 is the post office; it has now closed, but the same thatched cottages remain.

Here we have a later view down Poultry and Cheapside, with Christopher Wren's spire of St Mary-le-Bow dominating the street.

The only link to this wonderful structure today is Pier Street, which runs from Millbay down to the Hoe.

Budleigh's sea front is mostly a Victorian construction, for a century earlier green meadows sloped down to the edge of the seashore.

The population in 1960 was 50,000, yet there are only about 75 cars parked at the station, as most people worked in the town.

A solitary pony and trap head down the street.

The crew, it is said, settled down at Beer, married the local womenfolk and repopulated the community.

Vandals burnt down the pavilion in January 2002.

Note the drystone walls leading down to the river crossing.

The steep road leading down to the bridge over the River Don at Oughtibridge, north of Sheffield, leads the eye to the steel works across the river.

The spectacular Market Cross was built in about 1600, replacing one burnt down in the major town fire of that year.

A cliff railway toils up and down the cliffside to help the bather gain access to the many miles of beach between Sandbanks and Hengistbury Head.

Down the street stands Batheaston House with its many chimneys: it was originally the home of the Walters family, 18th-century cloth merchants.

By the 1950s bingo had become popular, and the walkway down the pier was covered.