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Situated on the corner of York Road and Girling Street, St John's was designed by Josiah Gunton of London and opened in April 1902.

HMS' St Vincent' (120 guns) was completed in 1815, but too late to take an active part in the Napoleonic Wars.

This tall Lincolnshire-style brick tower mill, seven storeys high, was built in 1819; it was powered by five patent sails and winded by a fantail.

Ven House c1955 Further downhill along London Road, Ven House is set back from the road beyond a forecourt.

Goring is a riverside village lying between the beech-clad hills of the Chilterns and the windswept slopes of the Berkshire Downs.

Bounded by Gosmoor and Charlton Roads, Priory Park was a favourite spot for picnics and Sunday afternoon strolls down to the banks of the River Hiz close to Brick Kiln Lane, Charlton, which runs behind

This tranquil scene shows the Gothic-style brick Methodist church of 1878, beyond creeper-clad number 37 in the foreground.

Tens of thousands of new entrants into the Merchant Navy received their basic training at 'Vindicatrix'.

At intervals on Severn Side, both north and south, steps leading from the sandstone quays were constructed.

By the late 1870s, the line was facing tough competition from Cunard, White Star, Dominion, and the Guion Line; Inman's problems were further compounded in 1881 with the loss of the 'City of Brussels

The gatehouse has distinctive diaper brick patterning and the arms of Bishop John Russel (1480-94).

The earlier pub on the site, made famous by the music hall star Florrie Ford, was demolished in the early 1920s, and rebuilt to a vaguely similar design.

The view looks at St Mary's from the north, along a varied terrace of possibly late 18th- and 19th- century houses which are not enhanced by the long brick boundary wall.

With the building of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, which opened in June 1847, East Burton was on the wrong side of the tracks from Wool and its village facilities.

Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.

Barkway spanned the main route from London to Cambridge, and it was only the coming of the railways in the 1850s that transformed it into a countryside backwater.

Bell Lane descends to the west of the A361 and gives us a good idea of the variety of building styles that make up this little industrial village.

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

In the early 1970s the mill was a definite 'No Go' area for Kempston children. Semi-derelict; a collection of rusting iron and crumbling brick, its former glories (few) were well hidden.

Wrexham stands on a tributary of the river Dee. It has a long history - it was known to the Saxons as Wrightesham or Wrightelesham.

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

This view is from an upper balcony of Eldon House, one of the eleven-storey blocks of council flats built c1960 on the Loughborough Estate.

Nine Mile Ride runs east to west from south Easthampstead to south of the Arborfield Garrison, originally cutting through Windsor Forest; it is now developed with long lines of bungalows.