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Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

Hairgrip fencing, that universal symbol of municipal parks, adds a slightly discordant, keep-off-the-grass note to the scene.

and slated roofs, while not overheating the blood, do present a well-ordered scene; their dates range from the pre-17th century to modern, close to the parish church and the entrance to Bradgate Park

A popular attraction during the 1950s were the annual lights along the front and in Roker Park.

Bruce Castle Park can be seen just beyond the trees. This is an interesting shot, taken at that moment when the area was being transformed from the semi-rural into a full-blown Edwardian suburb.

Here the street is seemingly deserted in the sunlight, save for a few parked cars; one is waiting outside the Plas Coch Hotel.

The first match was played against Reading at Fratton Park on 9 September 1899. The kit was salmon pink initially.

Butlin's amusement park is in the foreground.

In this view, the market place is mostly a car park, with market stalls along the south side of the Square - one is visible at the left.

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

The fields, now The Vale Park, lay between the railway station of 1839 and the gas works at the foot of the hill and the Bear Brook stream.

The Park was formally opened on 1 July 1937. It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges.

It was the country seat of the Duke of Leeds, who lived at Kiveton Park in south Yorkshire. Down by the beck is the 17th-century corn mill, once owned by the Neville family of Middleham Castle.

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

The van parked by the Gothic-style Methodist church (left) belongs to W Redman & Sons, the butchers, whose premises are next door to G H Handy, a tobacconist`s, which was once

High above here an amusement park was established with an aerial ride, Japanese gardens and a switchback railway.

On the right-hand side of the street by the parked car is the village inn, the Sir Walter Raleigh, named in honour of East Budleigh's most famous son.

When this area became a tortuous gyratory system, she was shifted to Howard Park.

The equivalent today would be the parking clamp and council vehicle pound!

This view of Birkenhead Road was taken very early in the wartime decade - the parked vehicles lack the white painted edges to the front and rear wings, and none of the windows in the houses

Aynho, on the Oxfordshire border south of Banbury, is a beautiful ironstone village dominated by its great mansion, Aynho Park House.

Opposite a Ford Anglia is tightly parked (left) between a couple of Morris Minis.

Croxley Green lies east of the River Chess, separated from Rickmansworth by the open space of Rickmansworth Park and Croxley Hall's woods.

Moving further downstream towards Marlow, we reach Bisham on the Berkshire side, seen here from the towpath just beyond Marlow's Higginson Park.