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Traffic control measures mean that there is almost no legal parking in the area.

The building to its left has been demolished to create a car parking area, and the ornate clock on the wall of W Sumpter's stationer's shop (left) is also, unfortunately, a thing of the past.

Manufactured by Walter Mcfarlane & Company of Possil Park, Glasgow, it cost the princely sum of £1,000.

The signs were hinged in half moons so that they could be tipped over to show which side of the road was available for parking.

West Cliff - Khyber Pass, the Royal Hotel, the Metropole, the Spa, Royal Crescent, the Park, the Museum

St Mary's Church is on rising ground west of the town, with Lowndes Park to its north and east and The Bury to its west. The large cruciform church dates back to the 13th and 14th centuries.

From market place to bus terminus, centre for further education and declining shopping area; by 1955 Park Square was ripe for the redevelopment that did not actually happen for another 25 years.

The site of the houses on the right is now part of the hotel car park.

The parked car is outside the Perrymount cinema, with Commercial Square beyond.

In the park to its north is Crowcombe Court, a Georgian country house built in the 1720s and 1730s for Thomas Carew.

In this view of the park we can see the helter-skelter, the water chute and the big dipper.

Tin Ghaut and the adjoining houses up to the church have now been demolished to make room for a car park. It is called Progress ... but I wonder.

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

The house with tall chimneys on the left was the gable-end of the George Hotel, with garaging attached to the main building; the higher gable with the BP sign marks the entrance to the car park.

It opened as a public park in August 1924, completing the 153 acres of breathing space we now enjoy. The house was used as a school from 1921, but it burned down on 15 July 1951.

Having Avenham Park in the background does enhance the pleasure of a walk over the bridge. Avenham Tower can be seen in the trees to the right, and the paths lead away to Frenchwood.

The lorry is parked at the entrance to Red Lion Square, giving an idea of what close neighbours St John's and All Saints are.

Beyond the thick wooded cover, the more open land of the deer park is corrugated by the medieval ridge and furrow of open field cultivation.

Today Bishop's Wharf is the site of the Riverside Retail Park, and the tanneries are gone.

So, instead of being a sensitive pedestrian and architecturally friendly scheme, the area is now a peculiarly urban villagescape, half car park and half odd seating which one would hesitate to use

Behind the photographer is the very large Broadoak Park, home of the Worsley Golf Club; the short road leading to the clubhouse is called Stableford Avenue.

The bicycles parked outside the bank on the left might well have been bought at the Cycle & Sports Depot farther down the street.

Meads Road, of course, had old trees already: a villa is seen on the right, and on the left carriages shelter from the sun alongside the flint wall fronting Saffrons Park, now a sports ground.

The drive leads to the Tudor mansion, an E-plan house started in 1577 and set in a Tudor deer park; it was restored to Tudor appearance after Georgian alterations in the last century.