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Facing Victoria Park, these 1930s shops and flats combine attempts at rendered Moderne architecture with safer Neo-Georgian sash windows and brick.

It was demolished six months later, and new houses were built in the park. Sir Walter Scott stayed in the village whilst writing his novel 'Ivanhoe'.

There was no bus station in the town, so buses parked in designated ranks painted on the road surface.

The marshland is part of the Parrog and now houses a thriving caravan park.

Park Street 1892 North-west from Winsford we reach Exford, where the River Exe is but a stream.

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

The small parking strip adjoining the Clock Tower contains two motor taxis, a pony trap, a landau and an open omnibus drawn by two horses happily munching away in their nosebags.

One of the sails from this impressive structure was blown off and landed in the park during Windy Sunday, 24 March 1895, two years later the rest of the sails were removed.

Parts of the Cloth Hall, the clock and bell tower, were re-erected as a shelter in Ravensknowle Park.

This view looks along the towpath towards Park Street bridge. The Nestle's factory is just out of sight on the right. The boys are fishing from a miniature wharf which still survives.

In the foreground there appears to be an event at the YMCA, and the general view over the municipal park shows another gathering in the gardens, perhaps related to the same event.

Near to the Three Peaks, Clapham's old Manor House (1701) is now used by the National Parks Centre. The original pigeon holes can still be seen in the gable ends.

Nearby are Goodwood House and Park, built in 1660 and greatly extended in 1760. It is The Duke of Richmond's estate, and has fine art collections.

This is still very much the age of the bicycle, as we can see from all those parked two-wheelers.

Amid scenery loved by the author Jane Austen, who was a frequent visitor here when her brother Edward Knight owned the adjoining 560-acre Godmersham Park, the River Stour flows quietly past

Away to the right are the south lodges to Moor Park, a pair of small lodges linked by a Tuscan Doric arch. From this viewpoint these are now hidden by young oaks.

In the foreground is the church primary school, parts of which date back to 1853, now much extended.

You could be forgiven for thinking Stoke Park looks vaguely like Washington's White House, for there is an American connection.

In the late 1950s all this area was cleared to build a multi-storey car park.

Here we see Park Street in the days of horse-drawn transport. Half-way up the street is what appears to be a water-cart on damping-down duty.

organised to deliberately publicise the situation where ramblers were excluded from large areas of mountain and moorland by a few grouse-shooting landlords, became an important catalyst for the National Parks

Situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park, these splendid waterfalls are still a major tourist attraction in the area, although they are associated with a number of tragedies.

regulation signs do little to enhance an otherwise idyllic scene on the A50 Leicester-Coalville (Bradgate) Road, looking across to All Saints' Church, standing adjacent to the entrance to Bradgate Park

Here we have a summer scene showing part of the Glebe area behind the Promenade. People in the shelters watch the play on the three public tennis courts.