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A classic rural Irish scene of this period, a pleasing main street, devoid of any traffic save for a farmer chugging up the hill in his tractor.

Judging by the debris and the description of its location on a bend of the river, this is where the water-powered mill used to be situated.

A panoramic view of the area, with Abergavenny in the somewhat hazy distance. Note the railway sweeping round towards the church in the centre of the picture.

Kingsgate takes its name from a gate erected to commemorate the landing of King Charles II and his brother the Duke of York on 13 June 1683.

An excellent view of Saltburn parish church with its distinctive tower, something of a landmark in Saltburn.

An interesting view of Loftus, again showing the towers of the Catholic church and the town hall.

He wrote most of his 26-volume 'Anglicae Historiae' while in this house. This 'History of England' became compulsory reading in all schools under Elizabeth I.

Rye sits huddled around a small hill, on the top of which stands St Mary's Church with its distinctive squat Norman tower.

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

The Lytham Improvement Act of 1847 set up a Board of Commissioners. By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks.

The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph.

Bastert was capable of acts of considerable kindness. Finding that one employee was walking ten miles to work due to money problems, Bastert paid the man's train fare.

This panorama takes in the Old Winton Road, which crosses on the right. A lone block of four houses were the only dwellings on that straight length of road in 1899.

It is hard to believe that Lydney's streets once echoed to the sounds of battle.

The name of the delightful Ham stone village of Montacute derives from St Michael's Hill to the west, in Latin 'mons acutus', or 'steep hill'.

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

This lively low-angle shot, virtually from ground level, looks north-eastwards along the Market Place and the northern side of East Street at its western end.

This was one of the earliest castles in England to be constructed from stone (in about 1090); the massive 125ft-high keep, the tallest in the country, was added by William de Corbeil, Archbishop of Canterbury

Bradgate, a park of 820 acres, was enclosed out of Charnwood Forest in c1200 as a hunting park, and it did indeed produce very fine venison.

Harlech Castle, built 1283-1290 for Edward I by Master James of St George, the military achitect, as a statement of his military power.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

Between the houses in the distance was the site of the Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Holy Trinity and St Augustine of Canterbury in 1926; it was never completed, and the remains were demolished

Up to two hundred years ago, the whipping of vagrants was a common practice; it seems that Datchworth was rather more understanding than most other villages and ceased the practice around the time of the