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Westmorland Avenue is one of the roads laid out for residential development between Tring Road and Wendover Road.

Looking eastward, this view shows one of the town's saddest architectural losses: Colebrooke Terrace, a shallow crescent of four pairs of Regency stucco villas.

The broad street of the village, with its grass verges, is lined with brick and weatherboarded houses.

The narrow high street leading to a small square boasted a varied selection of businesses at the turn of the last century.

The cries of traders echo through the expansive square, planned by Inigo Jones.The scene has been described by a contemporary guidebook: 'All night long the rumble of heavy wagons seldom ceases,

Eastbourne owes its development to the seventh Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront

Ballaugh is in the Sheading of Michael.

Without doubt, Pembroke is one of the most impressive defended sites in Wales.

West of Long Sutton and east of Spalding, Holbeach is another of Lincolnshire's numerous small market towns. It received its first market charter in 1252.

This view of Borough Hill was taken from neighbouring Newnham Hill. The forest of masts and aerials was a feature of the landscape for over 65 years.

But he is better to known to most of us as Lewis Carroll, the author of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.

This view shows the rear of the Assize Court. The whole area has changed almost beyond recognition.The castle walls to the right of the view are now demolished.

We are looking west, with the Great Wharf of the Basingstoke Canal on the left.

This oval-shaped double avenue of lime trees was laid out by the Chaloner family in the 18th century.

The narrow high street leading to a small square boasted a varied selection of businesses at the turn of the last century.

The modern segment of Hawkhurst, known as Highgate, grew up along a section of the A268 during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sykes Farm is typical of the isolated farms in this area. Another was Birkenhead Farm, where James Baines, woollen draper and benefactor to education in the Fylde, was born.

Swanwick and neighbouring Bursledon, on the extreme left of the picture, are popular villages on the banks of the Hamble.

This typical High Street view could be of any village in the north-east. This is the 1950s version of today's modern superstore, where you can buy everything from ice cream to petrol.

These gardens are at the rear of Ayscoughfee Hall, which is now in the process of being restored. The building is partly used as the Spalding Tourist Office.

In 1873, this wonder of nature had a quarrymen's village at its entrance.

By contrast, Argyle Street, belonging to a previous generation of building, had no green spaces at all, and the solitary tree that towered over the tenements of Sandyford is believed to have begun

Crantock is fortunate to be separated from the brash resort of Newquay by the estuary of the River Gannel, and because of this it has managed to retain its tranquil, country atmosphere.

In 1906 there was still a great deal of romance attached to soldiering, perhaps because of the long distance travel it involved, and the glamour of action in far-flung corners of the empire.