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On the right is the imposing facade of the old National Provincial Bank.

In 1956 Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone opened a Methodist church in Langdon Hills, and in the following year the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester visited Kingswood Junior School, officially opened

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

The wharf tells of another watery enterprise.

Just after the end of the First World War the town suffered a serious loss with the closure of Days' Brewery.

As we leave the town in an easterly direction towards Skelton, our last view of Guisborough, and the resting place of generations of Gisborians since being opened in 1872, is the town's cemetery.

The Royal Medical Benevolent College was founded in 1855 to take care of doctors who had fallen on hard times, together with their widows and orphans.

The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane

This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.

The 12th-century church of St Helen was the parish church for Garstang, two miles away. Until they acquired their own church, Garstang villagers had to walk to Churchtown.

The Park Keeper's Lodge and the Aviary The gardens were laid out in the late 19th century on the site of old Purbeck stone quarries formerly owned by the Goddard family.

This famous vista, taken from Bankside, shows the glorious dome of St Paul’s rising over the roofs of London.The river is edged not with the anonymous and monumental office blocks we see today but

Situated at the corner with Donegall Street, and very near the parish church, the academy was in a pleasant enough part of the town.

The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks - quite a bargain!

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

Shortly after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the War Office commandeered part of the grounds of Woodcote Park for training purposes and erected a large encampment.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

The clock turret of Moreton's most prominent building displays the date of its construction as 1887, and on the south wall is the coat of arms of the Redesdale family of Batsford Park who

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

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

It was purchased by the town from the manor of Shirley in 1228 for ten silver marks—quite a bargain!

We are in a marshy area—Amberley Wild Brooks, beside the tidal and navigable River Arun.The castle was a fortified manor of the Bishops of Chichester; it was crenellated c1377 to defend the coastal

This detail from R84037 (page 34) is a reminder of how our streets were once filled with a profusion of tobacco advertisements - Capstan, Player's, St Julien, St Bruno, Gold Flake, Senior Service - hardly