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Running parallel to the south of the road, the Great Ouse meanders between the two towns, and Houghton took advantage of both road and waterborne trade.

Except in this enclave, it is difficult to imagine that Kingsbury did not originate in the 1930s as part of the engulfing suburban sea.

When he died the country was still 90% Saxon; the Normans' policy, like the Romans', was 'divide and rule', with the majority of England's two million people subject to the Norman fist.

It is interesting that the boatman is using an oar on the starboard side, and is watching the effect on the craft as the boy standing with both hands on the port oar takes the strain on the rowlock.

Yet another clothier's church, St Mary's at Steeple Ashton had a steeple, as the village name implies, but it was blown down in 1670. Stone vaulting in the nave has been replaced with wood.

The River Beane runs close to the church, and is liable to heavy flooding.

On the third Tuesday in September, the Harpenden Statty Fair (Statute Fair) was held on the common close to the pond and the adjacent Triangle.

The girl carrying a baby (left) and the children playing in the boats are noticeably not visitors.

vestiges of the same industry in Bradford on Avon (it produced, among others things, the rubber washers used worldwide in aero- sol cans) are about to undergo commercial and residential development on the

Originally called Dunstable Street, there is no available record of the reason for the change of name apart from the coincidence of the accession to the throne of King George V.

Three years prior to the date of this photograph, an Australian visitor claimed that for its six hundred inhabitants there were five licensed premises along two hundred yards of Wrecclesham's main street

Seven miles from the Humber and to the west of Hull, Cottingham was another desirable place to live for prosperous merchants; in the 18th century there were five magnificent houses here, which were all

Muster Green is another open space maintained by the local council, and it flanks the A272.

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.

Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

One of the most important cross- village links, Gores Lane appears under one guise or another on all the oldest maps of Formby.

By 1955 both Russell Street and George Street had become one way, as the road signs indicate.

A splendid open car heads north, driving in the middle of the road. The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

It is interesting that the boatman is using an oar on the starboard side, and is watching the effect on the craft as the boy standing with both hands on the port oar takes the strain on the rowlock.

The road on the right leads to the church, dedicated to St Mary and built between the 12th and the 15th centuries.

This is another view of this splendid Norman castle, built on the site of a Romano-British fortress by Gerald de Windsor as a wooden stronghold.

Another bandstand survived, providing concerts and dancing (old time and folk) in the 1950s and 60s; it still provides a weekly concert in summer.

The milestone is known to the locals as 'the pineapple'; it is inscribed with names and mileages from Holt to Norfolk's principal towns.

Portmadoc handled slate traffic from both south Caernarvon and north Merioneth; the schooners were able to call upon the services of a tug for towing either in or out of the harbour.