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Cars parked down the centre of the High Street occupy the site of the historic outdoor town market, which still operates today and makes this area a very busy place on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The town boasts a maze that goes back to prehistoric times. Most of the buildings we see here remain much the same, although their functions have altered.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour, and today is partly pedestrianised. It is shown here crowded with shoppers and an early car.

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

In this wide street, cars can park on both sides of the road and still allow for traffic. Cannon Street is one of the oldest parts of the town, and dates from the 1850s.

Built as Stoneyhurst Hall by Sir Richard Shireburn, the building was abandoned by the family and given to the Catholic Church; it became a school run by Jesuit Priests.

Southend pier is the longest in the world, reaching out one and a quarter miles (2 kms) into the Thames estuary.

One of the earliest centres of Christianity in Kent, this village, with its main street and small shops running down to the large 12th-century Norman church on the left, was the site of a nunnery founded

Par Harbour was built in 1830 by mineowner Thomas Treffry, known as the 'King of mid-Cornwall'.

The three-mile trip along the Dee to Eccleston Ferry was, and remains, a popular summer season excursion. Here we have a small paddle steamer on the Eccleston Ferry/Eaton Hall run.

Prettily situated among trees and fields, the church of St Mary the Virgin is small but contains many treasures, including a silver chalice dating back to Elizabethan times, a 500-year-old font and

Aylesbury Road has probably the best run of historic buildings in any of Wendover's streets. Some good Georgian fronts hide timber-framed earlier buildings.

The marshes are home to large populations of birds that include wild fowl, little terns, and black-headed gulls.

Kingsgate Castle was rebuilt in the mid 1800s by Lord Holland. It was a private house for a while, and then became a hotel run by the North Foreland Hotels Ltd.

Many parishes on the Lizard are rich in ore but St Keverne folk have a superstition that 'no metal will run within the sound of St Keverne's bells'.

The Stow was to be the New Town's first major shopping centre. The design is Z-shaped, running from north to south to catch as much sunlight as possible, with a square at each end.

Famous for its many antique shops, which line the broad High Street, Hungerford was given a fishing charter and a brass drinking-horn by John of Gaunt (the Duke of Lancaster), who granted fishing

Cheap Street, off Market Place and now pedestrianised, retains its medieval and Tudor character: it has a stream running down its centre in a channel.

In August 1920, Bristol Corporation obtained an Act to take over the former BP&PR railway line between Sneyd Park Junction and Hotwells.

The Romans mined Droitwich salt on a large scale, and this is the road they built running east from Droitwich through Feckenham to Alcester.

Corner Cottage, jutting from the end, is a century older, and has now been refurbished. Beyond is the church schoolroom and the lych gate - from where Monks Path runs to Cleeve Abbey.

E A Hodges, the long-established, family-run stationery and news store, remained a well-known presence in town at this time.

The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.

A similar view to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of