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On the south side of Coltishall the river Bure flows gently through water meadows where cattle and horses graze.

The Rollers enabled punts to be moved from a lower part of the river to a higher part. Beside this stretch there was a nude bathing place for men called Parson's Pleasure.

Today the little village if Hockley has been absorbed by nearby Poynton.

Major T Reynolds was headmaster of Amesbury School, Hindhead, which was attended by David, the son of Field Marshal Montgomery.

We travel back to the London Road, and at the entrance to the Staff College, we find the War Memorial, erected in 1922 at a cost of £433.

The lonely grandeur of the Snowdonia mountains is emphasised in stark monochrome in this lake set high above the village on the flank of the Conwy Valley.

This road is typical of the building projects that were conducted after the Second World War.

Prosperity came to Warrington along with industry in the 1800s, and this is reflected in the quality of all the town's commercial buildings.

I wonder what the photographer promised the children if they struck a jaunty pose to add interest to his picture? Perhaps he said they would become a permanent record of Romford's past?

By the rules of the foundation, for eight centuries travellers have been given bread and ale on demand—the Wayfarers Dole.

In the beautiful valley which lies between Guisborough and Saltburn, we find the hamlet of Upleatham and this delightful tiny church.

Some parts of Victoria Park were left as woodland, and bracken, silver birch and oak thrive. It would be difficult to guess from the photograph that this was in the centre of a town.

Claimed to be the highest market town in England, Alston commands sweeping views of the North Pennines and the South Tyne Valley.

This was possibly not just for nostalgia's sake, but also because of the number of houses here with jettied bay windows, which afford commanding views of the sea from their upper rooms.

In the 16th century, the area round the churchyard was the commercial centre of Alcester; it included Butter Street, which borders two sides of the churchyard.

This is a general view of Chesterfield, Derbyshire's second largest town, from the east.

The magnificent parish church of St John the Baptist at Tideswell has justly earned the epithet 'the Cathedral of the Peak'.

This was one of Britain's major naval shipbuilding centres in the 18th and 19th centuries. For 500 years, oaks here were used in the building of some of Britain's greatest ships.

Two hundred years ago, convicts departed from here en route to Australia, while for many naval officers this famous gateway represented one of their last views of England before setting off to some distant

It was Abraham Darby's partners, Quaker merchants from Bristol, who put up most of the £3500 needed to establish Coalbrookdale Ironworks.

This shows a vanished scene, with the unique boulder-faced cottages surrounding the old Star Brewery - the subject of perhaps the bitterest of Eastbourne's conservation battles.

The photographer is now positioned east of Franklin's Outfitters, since demolished.

Here we have two views of the spacious harbour, opened in 1832 as the port for Canterbury, seven miles further inland.

The sand-dunes along the east coast of Norfolk can rise to heights of ten metres or more, making access to the beautiful sandy beaches relatively difficult.