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This photograph of the west front was taken shortly after completion of the Temple Moore restoration, as we can see from the light-coloured stonework around the window, buttresses and parapets

It was here in the 7th century that St Hilda founded one of the most famous monasteries of the Anglo Saxon world. Here worked Caedmon, the first recorded English Christian poet.

The picturesque gardens of the houses on the hillside rise in tiers over the rocky cliffs, and flights of steps climb up into the streets of the town from the river below.

A sizeable crowd are fully engrossed in the action of a cricket match on the playing fields of the school, against the backdrop of the buildings, all of which are contained on an 85-acre site.

Rebuilt in 1856-8 on a medieval site, this church has fragments from the old church on display. The architect was Woodyer of Guildford, and the builder Holdaway from Wherwell.

Borough Green was once a hamlet in Ightham and Wrotham parishes, six miles to the east of Sevenoaks.

The ruins make it hard to believe in its history of royal visits; on one of these, the mayor of Norwich arrived with a hundred citizens to present a petition to the king's mother in 1469.

Just south of Middlesmoor is Lofthouse, the northernmost point of the old Nidd Valley municipal railway.

Bancroft was said to be one of the most beautiful streets in England by the artist F L Griggs in the 1890s, and it still shows a certain charm. The building in the distance stands at Moss's Corner.

In 739, the Mercian king Offa founded a Benedictine house for men and women, which he endowed with huge tracts of Hertfordshire countryside together with their rents and tithes.

At Douglas, passengers can land at all states of the tide.

The lower end of West Street, looking westwards, has all manner of public houses from the Sun Hotel (left) to the Lily Hotel. Between them are the showrooms of Bridport Motors.

Going north to the Godstone to Reigate road, that part of the A25 that runs along the greensand ridge south of the North Downs, we reach the village of Bletchingley.

The village of Radley is best known for its public school founded in 1847. To the east of its campus is the village, as it were at the gates of the school.

The font cover is one of the finest medieval covers in England, with tabernacle work rising in stages to 12 feet in height.

The Town Hall is to the west of the cathedral. It was designed in the Gothic style of the late 13th century by William Henry Lynn of Belfast, and completed in 1869; the tower is 160ft high.

Linking Lower and Higher Bebington, Heath Road also forms one boundary of the Wirral Grammar Schools site.

One can almost smell the fragrance of the heather that adds to the enjoyment of this pre-war concert.

Brading's Bull Ring is a legacy of the barbaric tradition of bull-baiting, where a tethered animal would be attacked by a succession of dogs.

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Here we see the main street, with a group of villagers watching the photographer in action. Their clothing is typical of the era.

Well south of the bridge and 'Roytown', the parish church sits aloof.

The twin arches, with the quatrefoil over, are all that remain of the 13th-century Lady Chapel.

The number of competitors and the strength of their support indicate the pleasure of the town folk in Lord Ashton's gift.