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Here we see a busy scene at the height of the tourist season.

In the days when this was an abbey church, the ornate door on the right, the abbot's door, was part of the monks' processional route from the choir to the cloisters, which were located in the corner of

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

This must be the most visited and certainly the best placed souvenir and refreshment shop in Cornwall, just a stone's throw from the tip of Land's End.

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

The Gardens were part of a scheme to enhance Southport's image as a garden city.

Here a young girl throws crumbs to a family of ducks, a popular pastime for holiday makers. On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site.

The 1950s was the last decade of the supremacy of the open air pool. Most were rebuilt or covered over and replaced by the modern heated indoor pool.

Limestone rocks are a major part of Lathkill Dale.

The old gateway to the priory of the Knights of St John stands in St John's Lane, south of the Clerkenwell Road.

On the right of the picture is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Wherwell is famous for its ruined priory, established by the Saxon Queen Elfreda, mother of Ethelred the Unready, possibly as an act of repentance following several dark deeds.

Just 2.25 miles south-west of Roche Abbey stands All Saints'. Its fine Perpendicular spire is unusual, in that the corner walling of the belfry is sloped off.

The Weaver Navigation prospered throughout the 19th century owing to a very active policy of continuous upgrading and modernization programmes that included deepening the river, widening the channel, reducing

It was to the wrought iron railings outside the front entrance of the municipal buildings that relatives of patients in the isolation hospital came for news of their loved ones.

Penrith Castle was built by William Strickland, later Bishop of Carlisle, who was given permission to build Penrith Castle in 1397, following the sacking of the town by raiding Scots in 1354.

Here we see the southern end of the sands on a very crowded day in the 1950s, with the cranes of the harbour and Nothe Fort in the distance.

This is an odd echo of the past; moored hereabouts 700 years ago would have been ocean-going trading vessels loading up with tin.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

So called because a moneyer is reputed to have stayed here for a time in the 14th century, this is really part of a medieval merchant's house.

'P' Block was the home of the Production Engineering Department, and was therefore seen by many as the nerve centre for car and van production in Luton.

The boating lake did good business during the long hot summer of 1914.

Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of