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Entrance to the private and state apartments was not granted by the Yeoman of the Guard until the visitor had passed through the King's Guard Chamber.

Back to the west of Blindley Heath the route reaches Outwood, a hamlet on the edge of heath and woodland, some of it owned by the National Trust.

The Swan Hotel can be seen in the distance and the shop, outside which is a parked car, is now a private house, once owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Owned by the National Trust, its grounds are open most of the year. The house is more well-known for its past associations with the Astors and Christine Keeler.

Croxley Green lies east of the River Chess, separated from Rickmansworth by the open space of Rickmansworth Park and Croxley Hall's woods.

In 1301, Edward Longshanks set about rebuilding and heavily fortifying the palace, and it was held by the English until the autumn of 1313. It was here that Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542.

The council paid £139,000 for the park in 1872, it being one of a number of acquisitions by the authority over the previous 20 years.

By the 1880s part of it was the town's cricket ground, so it already had some public use.

Behind the tree is the Bucks Evangelistic Mission, built in 1878 and replaced by the truly awful 1960s Granville Street Evangelical Church.

The original church was probably built by the Danes, and St Michan is likely to have been a Danish saint. The organ, which dates from 1724, is said to have been played by Handel.

The Velox reached 75mph; the model ceased production in 1951 when it was replaced by the Detroit- influenced E-type.

The building was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, during one of the retaliatory raids for the RAF's destruction of the ancient city of Lubeck. It was restored to its former glory in the 1960s.

Irvine believed the building to be late, rather than early, Saxon, as is suggested by the decoration. The controversy continues on the date of the construction.

A small transom-sterned barge is beached by the slipway. This photograph is dated c1874, as the railway viaduct is seen complete in the view.

From its humble origins in 1840s Rochdale when two dozen Owenite and Chartist workmen had clubbed together to open a store in T'owd Lane, the movement had become nationwide by the end of the 19th century

Wicker baskets carried by the ladies (in the right-hand rowing boat) were very much a feature of life until quite recent times.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the Ulverston Canal.

Browne's Hospital (72317 and 72319, these pages) is one of the most important medieval almshouses in England, dating from 1475 when it was founded by the wool merchant William Browne.

A step away from the green by the staithe is the inn, which is now called the Stokesby Ferry.

Harlaxton Manor is now owned by the American University of Evansville.

Between 1914 and 1920 there were huge increases in the price of basic foodstuffs, but by the time this picture was taken they were falling to near pre-war levels.

Between 1914 and 1920 there were huge increases in the price of basic foodstuffs, but by the time this picture was taken they were falling to near pre-war levels.

The mansion fell into ruin itself by the late 18th century. The endeavours of the third and fourth Marquesses saw the site excavated, footings laid out and eventually fenced in as a public space.

To the west of the Old Bell is Mill Lane, leading to the abbey mill which was owned by the abbey.