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Rolle Street takes its name from the Rolle family of Bicton House, who owned the land on which much of modern day Exmouth stands.

This is the ancestral home of the chiefs of the Macleans. The Macleans paid the price for siding with James VII against William III, forfeiting castle and estates.

Along here could be found the imposing edifice of the York City & County Bank, the Yorkshire Penny Bank and the 18th-century Reindeer Hotel.

Along here could be found the imposing edifice of the York City & County Bank, the Yorkshire Penny Bank and the 18th-century Reindeer Hotel.

East of Gravesend, near where the Thames Estuary meets the North Sea, is Sheerness, a port and seaside resort on the north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey.

Here we see Bondgate with its famous slope of cobbles. The buildings on the right are mainly late 18th- and early 19th-century.

The Village c1965 This photograph was taken after the formation of Washington New Town.

The bushes to the left hide the site of the old abbey at Abingdon, founded in 676 and again in 955 after the original had been destroyed by marauding Danes. It was the mainstay of this area.

This well-known public house stands at the foot of the Downs. The area was noted for grazing sheep. There is a spring-fed well by the roadside next to the pub.

The coming of the railway put Whitby on the tourist map; its harbourside streets, ruined abbey, and souvenirs made from jet, which is a fossilized wood found locally, all proved a magnet for holidaymakers

The parade of shops remains, but with 21st- century changes. Today the chimney has gone, and the windows have recently been replaced.

This is a good view of one of the few places with access to a good beach for many miles of slate coast, although even then the sand is covered at high tide. Gull Rock is offshore.

Torquay's inner harbour was built by Sir Lawrence Palk, son of Sir Robert Palk, who bought the manor of Torwood in 1768.

The soaring Gothic of the Abbey Church, transformed from its late Norman structure into Perpendicular style, dominates the skyline of this shaded street leading up to the old castle, with the Castle

This was one of the principal shopping streets of the town, though the Methodist New Connection chapel and the Salvation Army Hall were also along here.

If coal was burned in these houses, it had to be imported from the mainland.

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

Building commenced on the site of the former red brick market in 1891 to the designs of the local architects Joseph and John Leeming.

This was the original site of the huge cattle market. In the 19th century the street was lined by saddlers, but these premises gradually closed when horses gave way to the horsepower of cars.

Many of the town's elegant buildings were built during the 18th century, when the town prospered from the East Indies trade.

The Trinity Weslyan Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Mawney Road and Linden Street, was built in 1888 and provided seating for 750 worshippers.

The statue of Queen Victoria is on the right and beneath it are two of Nottingham's other fixtures - Solari's and Capocci's ice-cream stalls.

Here we see evidence of early tourism in the area with a wonderful display of post-cards in the shop on the right.

A 'tidy' view of Market Square complete with flower beds, mown grass and full benches just before opening time. Many of the buildings surrounding the Square show evidence of ancient origins.