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Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

Sadly, every brick and tile has gone, to make space in true Wigston style for an open car park.

This area is now the main car park for visitors. One of the gondolas from the big wheel at Blackpool ended its life as a cafe here, and stood just to the right of our picture.

It looks like a good solid Silver Cross pram parked outside the tobac- conist's on the left of our photograph.

Most of the buildings have gone, and on the site of the clock tower there is now a large indoor shopping complex and car parking facilities.

Henry Bell, who became a Provost of the burgh, designed and built the steamboat 'Comet'; an obelisk to him stands on the Esplanade, and the flywheel from the 'Comet' is preserved in Hermitage Park.

The development of Castle Bromwich really got under way in the 1930s with the Hodgehill Common housing estate.After the second world war, in which Castle Bromwich played a major part with its Spitfire

Set off the main road, this square accommodates considerably more parked cars today.

This disappeared in 1997, replaced by a pretty park. The Post Office has gone, and the Westward Ho! based Buckleigh Laundry is now called Buckleigh Linen Service.

This building is no longer operating as a guest house; the caravan and camping park is now the main business, and it has had an indoor swimming pool since about 1980.

Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

It looks like a good solid Silver Cross pram parked outside the tobacconist's on the left of our photograph.

In Leeds, Scott was also responsible for the old Beckett's Bank building in Park Row (1862, now demolished).

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

West from Haven Green the road leads to Castlebar Park, which still retains many of its mid 19th-century villas.

The pump has been replaced with a car park.

In the distance a Mini car is parked, which dates this photograph to 1959 or later.

The almost new Vauxhall Wyvern E model is parked nearly opposite Collins, the antique dealer, and adjacent to the rather modern houses behind the slag-block wall.

The Transporter Bridge was opened on 17 October 1911 by Prince Arthur of Connaught, whose father had opened Albert Park in 1868.

We go north again to the centre of the National Park and the best-known town in Powys. The Frith photographer must have been impressed, as he took many views of the area.

Not every residential unit would have a garage, hence the need for designated parking spaces as well.

Within the park is the memorial column dedicated to Richard Young (1809-71), a local shipping magnate, Member of Parliament, five times Mayor of Wisbech and Sheriff of London and Middlesex.

The huge Canadian vessel 'Port Royal Park', driven broadside into the pier during a gale, inflicted structural damage so severe that demolition was considered.

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.