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In 1910 the Borough of Wallasey was formed. This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.

Oliver Cromwell once came to spend the night at Ripley Castle, home of Sir William and Lady Ingilby.

The original was built by Sir Thomas Gorges on his 250 acre estate at Bodenham.

The large war memorial dominates the square in front of the County Hotel.

The Croston Hall squires much influenced the running of the village, but they became impoverished; the Hall eventually fell into rack and ruin under the last squire, Captain Geoffrey de Trafford.

This creek on the River Wyre near Poulton-le-Fylde has become part of a modern marina. The white building beyond the sailing boat (center left) is Wardley's Hotel.

The post office is on the far left, and immediately next door is A Shenton, dealing in baby linen and ladies' clothes.

This seems a quiet day, for my childhood memories of passing through Newark are of nose-to-tail crawls and relief on crossing the bridge.

This photograph, taken shortly after the war, shows the Moot Hall in a rather sorry state of repair.

The upstairs bay window of the shop on the left is no longer to be seen, as the façade has been rebuilt. It belonged to Tower's, who were boot makers.

The car on the left obscures what was the front window of the Daventry Weekly Express office (or The Gusher, as it is affectionately known by the locals).

The church of St Mary was built in 1847.

Timber from Scandinavia, with a builder's merchant's lorry and cranes, stand on the Quay beside 1864-built Pier Terrace (right).

The late Victorian era saw the development of shopping parades.

The late Victorian era saw the development of shopping parades.

South of Farnham, on the greensand heathland, there are two famous and immensely popular lakes, Frensham Great Pond and Frensham Little Pond.

Further downstream and opposite Hampton Court, Molesey Lock is photographed from Riverbank, the busy A3050 along the Surrey bank of the River Thames.

These jettied houses (with the first floor projecting and on brackets) and the building to the left of them, Helensbourne, are 16th- century and timber-framed beneath the render.

The Checker and the upper floor of the old bakehouse are now occupied by the Unicorn Theatre, opened in 1953 - it has a version of a Shakespearian-period stage.

Over 150 years ago, Church Street was the main way out of the town to Chatburn. Dates can be seen on house frontages - one drainpipe bears the date 1757.

Kinmel Hall stands on a site said to date back to 1311, but this present country house emerged from the ashes of a former mansion destroyed by fire in 1848.

There is a tendency to see the development of the London suburbs only in terms of public transport, but the motorcar proved increasingly important from this period.

A Tudor fort sitting on top of Beblowe Crag, Lindisfarne was raised for defence against the Scots.

This was the retail hub of the town, with each blind shadowing a shop window on the sunny northern side of the exceptionally wide street.