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This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders

This photograph was taken about five years after R353020 (pages 62-63) and further down the hill towards the centre of Rockingham.

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Hidden behind the trees is the parish church of St Michael and All Saints; burial place of Bernard Gilpin (died 1583), cleric, orator, philanthropist, and founder of Houghton Grammar School.

Taken long before the days of amusement arcades and the bandstand, this photograph shows that Pier Road and the Crag consisted solely of dwelling houses, probably occupied mainly by the fishing community

This view of Worcester Cathedral was taken looking west along the length of the quire and nave to the great west window.

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

Castell Coch has featured in a number of films, both for screen and television.

Chesham has been a market town since 1257 when Hugh, Earl of Oxford, obtained from King Henry III a grant of a weekly market and annual three-day fair.

A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church.

Here we see the river bridges and Nag's Head island, which separates the main river on the right and the back water on its left.

County Hall was built in 1882 and was the administrative headquarters of Lancashire County Council.

The layout of the streets is still there but many of the older buildings have been swept aside by progress.

This view of the main road (known here simply as 'The Ringway') shows St George's Park just to the left of the dual carriageway.

It grew both in physical size - occupying a rabbit warren of connected shops on the corner of Cattle Market and Market Street - and in its range of goods.

Much of the woollen industry, by which Cirencester prospered, was organised by the monks of the great abbey which was completed during the reign of Henry II.

An air of tranquillity pervades this pretty scene with its unmetalled road, and it could almost be a photograph of modern Totternhoe.

Devizes is perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Avon valley. From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

A magician entertains a crowd of well dressed Victorian holidaymakers on the beach.

Dedicated to Wisbech's most famous son, Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846): one of the key figures in the movement for the abolition of the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The bridge was built to designs by Alexander Galloway, Rector of Kinkell, started in 1521 and widened by John Smith, 1840. The upstream facings were removed and replaced on the widened structure.

Wheeled bathing machines at the water's edge preserve the modesty of Victorian swimmers so none can be seen braving the waters.

Dinas Powis Tennis Club was founded in 1901, thanks to the generosity of General Lee as Lord of the Manor. Premises were amicably shared with the Bowls Club.