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The Swan Hotel acquired a multi-level car park to its rear (its first concession to the age of the motor car) and the erstwhile car showrooms at the northern end of Town Bridge were demolished and replaced

A Jaguar XJ is emerging from this road into the main one as an Austin A40 Farina manoeuvres into a parking space on the other side (left).

The tall three- storey building remains, now an Oxfam shop, while all beyond the towering Baptist Church on the left has since been demolished and is now the entrance to the car parks formed between

Motorists were few in the 1950s, and parking appears to be available for anyone at the kerbside.

The trees and park on the left across the road are the salient from the common into the suburbia of Lower Ashtead.

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

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

The car park is still on the left, and the gallows sign is still over the road. Between the sign and St Mary's Church is the Town Bridge over the river Welland.

This view looks south-west along the canal past the last lock, No 16, Hills and Partridges Lock, to Park Street Bridge. (Hills and Partridges works have now long gone.)

Taken from Winney Hill, this photograph looks over Harthill in the northerly direction of Kiveton Park collieries.

Much of the original structure was built using rubble from the remains of the Roman town of Verulamium, which stood close to the present Verulamium Park.

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

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

The fact that it was possible to park on the side of the road without problem makes this photograph one to be treasured.

Congleton lies in the valley of the River Dane - we have already caught a glimpse of the river in the park. Now we move two or three miles upstream to Colley Mill Bridge.

It began a new life as Wat Tyler Country Park in 1984.

The closest parked cars on each side are Humbers, with a Riley 9 further along the north side of the street (centre).

East of the park is the village, a figure of eight of winding lanes. This view looks east along Ashby Road to the small green at its junction with Station Road and High Street (to the right).

The car park has gone, and many of the buildings have also disappeared.

Here we see two horse-drawn narrow boats, the 'Linnet' and the 'Evelyn', belonging to George Garside, at the attractively sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

Further lakes and streams flow through the grounds of The Grove, which was once a private house, but is now a delightful public park.

It was renovated in 1984 and still stands, but it is well-hidden in woodland at Beckett's Park in Headingley.

At the top of the glen a pioneer amusement park was established from 1887, when the switchback railway from the Saltaire Exhibition was moved up the hill.

The lower buildings in front of the Metropole flank Regency Square which was laid out in 1818 and is now host to an underground car park. Francis Frith's Sussex A Century Ago