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The young girl in her fashionable cloche hat dips for minnows in the River Beane, whilst her friend waits patiently for her turn.

The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929.

The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929.

A 14th-century building, it has a strange pew perched up on the wall 'like an opera box'. It also has two rather precious books. One is a Breeches Bible that dates from 1560.

The pillar box is now further down the High Street. In the foreground are Nos 1 and 2 Debden Road. No 1 is divided by a drainpipe from 100 High Street.

Note the old-style telephone box (left). Most of these cottages were built at the turn of the 19th century, when stops at Robinson's Tea Rooms were part of the popular wagonette trips.

Up until the First World War it was used as a cinema, and as a venue for wrestling, boxing matches and roller skating.

Note the cadet resplendant in his scarlet uniform and rakishly angled pill-box hat.

A sign of the times is here in the form of the AA box (right) with two AA patrol men going across the road for a quick one!

The interior was restored in 1904 when the old box pews were replaced and a chancel screen installed.

Outside the Moot Hall is an early concrete telephone box designed by Gilbert Scott.

A sign of the times is here in the form of the AA box (right) with two AA patrol men going across the road for a quick one!

A telephone box marks the spot. The Pendle witches travelled through the Trough to Lancaster for judgement. Brennand Valley is just one of many beauty spots threading the fells near Dunsop Bridge.

The green now has five ash trees and a modern phone box. The houses on the left are part of the Coronation Walk estate, which was built soon after the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Here Nailsworth is seen from the 'W', the zigzag hill road linking it to Box village. By 1900 the 'Pepperpot Church' has been replaced by St George's as we know it today.

Overlooked by the slopes of Box Hill and the sweep of the North Downs, this delightful village acquired its name from the badgers whose setts were by the River Mole.

The Lookout at the summit of Box Hill is due to the generosity of Mr Leopold Salomons of Norbury Park.

Findon is on the top of the Downs, just north of Worthing, and was noted for an annual sheep fair. Now horse breeding and training is an important local activity.

The 1920s Elm Tree Cottage on the left is now partly hidden by a large beech tree, while the 19th-century cottages behind the pillar box (which is still there today) have an extra bay to the

The Gothic west front with a Decorated-style window and the gable tower were added in 1891 in white brick, almost masking the earlier red-brick 'preaching-box' behind.

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.

Although Queniborough is virtually a part of the outer edge of suburban Leicester, this photograph presents an almost chocolate-box view of the village.

The paddler giving them a tow is an example of what had become the classic design for this type of vessel: a tall funnel immediately abaft of two large paddle-boxes.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.