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Hay is being gathered at Chestwood buy horse power; traffic on the A39, which now roars across the valley below, is a mere nightmare for the future.

The children are bare-footed, not just because they are on the beach; boots were worn only on Sundays.

The old cliff line is protected by a wide expanse of sand, and the highest tides barely surround Crinnis Island.

In fact, Feckenham was virtually a town when Redditch was barely even a village.

Barely 50 years later, the scene is altogether different. Car ownership is no longer confined to the rich, and the mass-produced, 'sit-up-and-beg' vehicles were now a common sight on the road.

The castle here had fallen into decay by Shakespeare's time: in 'Richard II', he mentions its “empty lodgings and unfurnished walls, unpeopled offices, untrodden stones”.

The front of the National Provincial Bank, now the National Westminster, has barely changed since 1960. Even the arched entrance on the corner remains the same.

The bucket and spades, bare feet, donkeys and wickerwork basket chairs recapture a vanished era. 'The sands form an excellent bathing-ground, entirely free from danger', says a Victorian guidebook.

With barely enough wind to keep under way, small craft lie just offshore.

Overlooking Ilkley is the Swastika Stone, so called because of its attractive engraved markings; in reality, they barely resemble the emotive 20th-century swastika symbol.

The chestnut coppice in this view has recently been cut, and the hill is comparatively bare.

It was restored in 1868 by Ewan Christian, an act which Rev Sabine Baring Gould described as 'cruel'.

This picture, taken just where the A469 road to Bargoed turns to the left, shows what a diversity of shops and amenities existed in a town of barely 5,000 inhabitants.

Wall plaster has since been removed to reveal bare stonework. There is a Charles I letter over the north door.

It is a relief to reach the archaeologically rich and beautiful headland of Brean Down, a carboniferous limestone outlier of the Mendips reaching 300 feet high, from whose bare grassy slopes are

In an area of architectural gems (Rockingham Castle, Lyddington Bede House and Stoke Dry parish church), the village has a number of good ironstone houses of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries

Partly bare stone and partly whitewashed, and with numerous stone-mullioned windows, its cross passage is behind the two-storey porch.

Every one of the well-dressed children wears a hat: only the rather scruffy boy to the left is bare headed.

He also built the station - a great achievement for a man who could barely write his own name. The George Hotel replaced the earlier George Inn, which was re-erected in St Peter's Street in 1852.

The village pub, the Hare and Hounds, has barely changed since this photograph was taken 35 years ago.

Above, the Princess ascends to heaven, one breast bare; she is accompanied by two angels, one holding the stillborn baby, the other with crossed arms.

Lodge Hill was then a bare hill, but the Baron imported vast numbers of mature trees to give it its present wooded character; teams of horses toiled from far and wide to haul the trees to their destination

Polegate barely existed until the railway arrived in 1846; initially it was the station for Eastbourne, connected to it by a horse omnibus.

Substantial tree growth has filled the gaps around the dwelling house in our picture, and the height of the trees has rendered the windmill barely visible from Moor Lane.