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On the corner next door is the public library, which was built in 1889 in part of the garden.

Punch and Judy, donkey rides, boating and a wooden refresh­ment hut where the renowned Cleveleys Gingerbreads were sold in 1927 were replaced when Jubilee Gardens was made.

Visitors relax in the splendour of Valley Gardens, and tea is served from the Sun Pavilion. The spa trade declined in the 1920s - although more visitors came, they spent less money.

The gardens were created in 1846 from the former Newbold Meadows, donated in 1836 by Edward Willes of Newbold Comyn.

These views of the Embankment Gardens clearly show the results of continuing are and attention. The town's War Memorial reminds of the sacrifices of World Wars I and II, and the Korean War.

The terraced and topiary gardens contain the first wisteria and mulberry ever to be planted in Britain, and were landscaped by Capability Brown and John Tradescant.

This was an era when labour-saving machines of all kinds were being invented for the home and garden. Next door, the silent film version of 'The Count of Monte Cristo' is showing.

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

Charles Howard landscaped the gardens in Cromwell's time; they were laid out in the form of an amphitheatre, with a garden terrace and an open-air conservatory of flowers and rare plants, and were

The church on the right is St Mary-at-Lambeth, which has since become the Museum of Garden History. Captain Bligh of mutiny on the Bounty fame is buried in the churchyard.

A fine view of a house whose gardens were compared by John Aubrey with 'the kingdom of heaven'.

That land was used for the gardens illustrated in this photograph.

In the 17th century there was a popular bear garden at Bankside.This poor creature is urged to dance to bugle tunes played by his owner, who is probably an old soldier.

Waddington has won the 'Best Kept Village in Lancashire' title on many occasions.When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1953, the village erected a Coronation Bridge and laid out Coronation Gardens

Herbert H Raphael's gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden

The wall running almost the whole width of the picture surrounds the Dean's Court kitchen garden.

The 19th-century botanist William Borrer once recorded over six thousand different plant species in the garden of his home here.

This is the same view as L130274, but taken hald a century later, with Millbank now covered by Victoria Embankment Gardens.

Here families stroll along the parade on the top of the cliffs, which was soon to be developed as Marine Gardens.

However, on 26 October 1917 his only son, Herbert, was killed in France, and in 1927 the Park family gave land to create a public garden in his memory.

The post box still stands in the garden of the shop at the corner of Station Road and Woodside Road, but the telephone box, peeping into the left of the photograph, has disappeared.

At the end of the street is Gardener's, the gents' outfitter's. On the right is the Oddfellows Office, here since 1933, and Barker's, fishmongers since 1946.

The tower has been further reduced since 1951 to provide stone for garden walls.

Magnificent sea views are afforded from the Promenade, down the north coast in the direction of Hartlepool and beyond, hence the name of these gardens.