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The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white.

This photograph looks from the west towards St Austell in its rural setting.

There was great rejoicing when the new stone and iron extensions were finally erected in 1912, having first been suggested by William Scoresby the elder (1760- 1829) a hundred years before

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

This view was taken further down the shopping precinct.

This tranquil scene, with pleasure craft moored along the towpath, contrasts with the activity here in the Victorian period.

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

The Baptists have been recorded in Bluntisham since the mid 17th century; a Meeting House was built on this site in 1787, and rebuilt in 1874.

This was a coaching inn on the London to Norwich turnpike, now the A11, since at least the mid 18th-century.

Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty.

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

The paddle-steamer is not approaching the Cobb wall on a busy day.

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

The photograph is taken from the Norfolk bank of the Wellstream that flows into Wisbech.

The photograph is taken from the Norfolk bank of the Wellstream that flows into Wisbech.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation.

Here we see another view of the main street.

Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.

From further west this view gives a good idea of the Georgian and later brick frontages added to the mainly 17th century timber-framed cottages lining the High Street and giving the town its distinctive

This pub should technically be called The New Railway Inn, because it stands on the site of a former inn of the same name.