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These tall weatherboarded net 'shops' (net drying sheds) cluster on the foreshore below East Cliff.

The station and extensive sidings at Peak Dale were mainly for the transportation of limestone from the surrounding quarries - we can see some of them in the background of this photograph.

Ruts either side of this ravine prove the use of this short cut to West Mark.

Despite the growth of Shifnal (it developed to provide accommodation for both Birmingham and Wolverhampton to the east and the new town of Telford to the west), it has managed to retain

The circular estuary of the Stour and Avon, where the two rivers penetrate far inland, and the shores of Christchurch Bay, attract thousands of sea and wading birds, particularly during the winter months

This shows a pretty view of the west end of Hinderwell.

This late Elizabethan house is filled with treasures, including fine works of art. The descendants of the original family still occupy the building.

Chesterfield Road c1955 Eckington township is situated 6 miles north-east of Chesterfield and 7 miles south-east of Sheffield, and may be the place mentioned in the early 11th- century will of

A row of drifters settled on the South Beach. The sheer volume of boats of all shapes and sizes is staggering. Again, the east coast herring fishing boats are prominent.

No 11, selling boots and shoes, together with Lipton's teas (left), was the shop of clothier Harry Lane. No 12 was another tailor, Sidney Wellman (centre left).

St Oswald's church at the top of this ravine used to be on the edge of the East Riding.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green, seen here in the gentle post-war years. This stretch of road has a history all of its own.

The cathedral is accepted as being one of the most beautiful buildings in Europe; it dominates the uphill area of the city and its surrounding buildings.

Paddle steamers provided pleasure trips and a bus service of sorts out to the coastal ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.

Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, Lord of the Manor, had to obtain a £10,000 loan and a special Act of Parliament for the building of the Promenade Pier, which was opened on 15 May 1873.

This dramatic statue of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, occupies a prominent site in Broadway.

Dittisham is one of the larger villages along the steeply wooded banks of the romantic Dart estuary. A foot ferry takes passengers across the river to Greenway, once the home of Dame Agatha Christie.

Both the 800-tonne Swing Aqueduct and the swing road bridge have been opened to allow the passage of a steamer on the MSC.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.

The advent of the power-loom, however, brought about a decline, but by 1900 new industries had sprung up, including printing at Locher Mill, a laundry at Glentyan Mill and flax and paper mills at Johnstone

Within two years 1,000 houses were built, and by 1954 an average of ten new residents were moving into Hemel Hempstead every day.

North of Saxmundham, Yoxford was once a coaching stop on the London to Great Yarmouth route.

Standing outside the village Post Office on the left, the bewiskered elderly man leaning on two sticks and wearing a bowler hat was probably a figure of some status in the village, where there were a

The town of Richmond grew up round the Norman castle, which was begun around the year 1071 by Alan Rufus, a son of the Duke of Brittany, and William the Conqueror's man in these parts.