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The newsagent's to the left of the picture is Billy Hole's. The family still live and trade in the town.

The long-running TV comedy, 'Last of the Summer Wine', had not put Holmfirth on the tourist map when this photograph of the main square was taken.

'Stow-on-the-Wold, where the wind blows cold…' runs the ancient rhyme. The highest town in the Cotswolds can certainly be windswept, particularly in the winter.

This main street runs parallel to the shore, and displays many of the late 19th-century shops that accompanied its development as a resort during that period.

At nearby Fishlake, the village church is noted for its late Norman doorway. At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

Several princes and future kings have stayed here while at Britannia Royal Naval College - hence the royal prefix.

The Wayside Cafe (left) and the George Hotel (centre) face the Queen's Armes Hotrel and Gear's Garage (far right).

This is the seaward end of the High Street, which runs down onto the beach. In an earlier period this area included beautiful sheltered gardens and a bandstand.

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

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.

Broadgate was always the hub around which Coventry revolved, and Hertford Street was once one of the main streets running into it, though it was constructed only in 1912.

Sunday schools were where most children received a rudimentary education until the passing of Forster's Education Act.

Here we see the tell-tale power lines which show that trolley buses are still operating. The first ones started running in 1923, and carried on until 1963.

Mount Pleasant Inn still stands above the marshlands of Dawlish Warren, though it has changed somewhat since this photograph was taken.

Looking northwards, we can see a good selection of 18th- century architecture; perhaps the most attractive is St Edward's House (next to the three-storey hotel) with Corinthian-topped

The centre of Wollaston is often referred to as Wollaston Junction, recalling the time when two tram routes met here - one came from Stourbridge, and the other was the Amblecote to Kinver Light Railway

The High Street runs parallel to Market Place and Market Street; it is terminated to the east by Aveland House, a dignified three-storey late Georgian town house.

Eynsham has developed from a small agricultural village, and is now almost the size of a small town. We are looking along Acre End Street.

The store that was Bridge's shop in W305026 (pages 68-69) is now five years later run by F Park. Today it is a Victoria Wine shop.

The projecting sign of Boots (centre) certainly helped to advertise its presence.

Upstream of Tiverton, there are several weirs on the river Exe as it plunges down from Exmoor. The river rises high in these hills, but only a few miles from the Bristol Channel.

The Shropshire Union Canal was owned by a railway, the LMS, and was formed in 1864. It runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port.

The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors

In the 18th century there was a boys' school in Allostock run by a minister of the Unitarian chapel; it was attended at one time by Robert Clive, the future conqueror of India.