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The zany comedienne Joan Sims, star of many crazy 'Carry On' films, started her acting career in amateur dramatics in the Basildon area.

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

Wimborne Street c1955 Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’, where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious ‘Flower-de-Luce

A charming turn-of-the-century tableau of Salutation Square, the main access into the town. Note the hotel carriage by the entrance and the various horse-drawn conveyances.

A few miles to the south of Nairn stands Cawdor Castle, one of Scotland's finest medieval buildings. It is famous for its association with Macbeth and the murder of Duncan.

The picturesque coastal town of Eyemouth is situated five miles north of the border where the Eye Water flows into the North Sea.

In the early years of the 19th century, there were only 93 houses in the town.

True, the shops may have similar uses, but the Victorians made the most of the spa town by building wide, airy thoroughfares.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

This was one of the principal ways in which Victorian and Edwardian retailers advertised the location of their premises; on large city stores the letters were often six feet high.

Newark owes much of its development to the fact that Henry I gave Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, permission to divert the route of the Fosse Way through the town.

There are few places in the Black Country as attractive as this secluded corner of Old Swinford, where superb Georgian houses grace quiet streets below a medieval church.

Set in the midst of particularly fertile part of the county, Ottery had a market for centuries.

One of the most beautiful of the many lovely Broads churches is St Helens at Ranworth, a short walk from the staithe.

This photograph of the village of Byfield, on the old turnpike road midway between Daventry and Banbury, shows plenty of pedestrians, but no traffic.

Naseby is famous for its Civil War battle of 1645 between King Charles I and the Parliamentarians, with Sir Thomas Fairfax as Commander-in-Chief and Oliver Cromwell as Lieutenant-General of the Horse.

As with many seaside resorts, one of the popular attractions was a trip in a boat.

The Market Square is at the busy cross-roads in the centre of this delightful small town.

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century. There are some impressive altar tombs and a font dating back to the 1300s.

St Mary's, the parish church of Higher Brixham, was the town's original place of worship, dating back to the 15th century. There are some impressive altar tombs and a font dating back to the 1300s.

This is all that remains of the Guesten House, built in 1320 for visitors to the monastery.

This photograph could well be a study in oils, but the church of St Lawrence, standing next to the canal, is said to be large and uninspired.

Leeds was the industrial power house of the old West Riding.

On the upper reaches of the Wear and once a part of County Durham, Washington was where William Doxford built his first ships before moving to Pallion in the 1870s.