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This road comes from Cold Overton, a fine Leicestershire village, on the hill just 2 miles away. As the sign shows, in 100 yards the road joins the busy A606 Melton-Oakham Road.

The Chapel lies at the heart of the school and the inside, like the outside, is in the Gothic style of the 19th century.

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

Situated along Ayston Road, to the north of the town, it was bought in 1895 by C R Haines who added a wing. Threatened with closure in 1925, it has survived and flourished ever since.

This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross.

At this time there is hardly any traffic congestion. By 1925 there were just over a million vehicles of all types on the roads, of which 695,000 were privately-owned cars.

There are bargains to be had at Brash & Willan's, where they appear to be selling off the stock of Wigham & Co (any relation to the shipbuilding firm of Wigham Richardson & Co?).

We are looking across the old inner harbour to the coal staithes. Partially hidden by one of the staithes is the paddle-tug 'Seaham'.

Though the North East is readily identified with coal mining, shipbuilding and iron and steel, among its lesser-known industries was the construction of railway locomotives and rolling stock.

A continuation of Church Street, Chapel Street leads on to the High Street.

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

It is difficult to realise that the apparently remote St Paul's church now stands adjacent to a busy roundabout at the junction of Pixmore Way and Baldock Road.

Railton Road runs from Brixton and today, at its south end, it continues to be a one-way street. It is unusual that many of the shops have not changed.

When completed, the Victoria Buildings had 31 shops on the ground floor and numerous suites of offices above.

Princess Charlotte, the only child of the loveless marriage between George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, made Crichel House her home for a time.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over Blackmoor Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

Back at the river, this view shows the crowds watching the Procession of College Boats, held every year on 4 June to commemorate George III's birthday.

Half a mile downstream the river passes through Sir Robert Taylor's supremely graceful and beautiful sandstone bridge of the 1770s that still carries the busy A4 London to Bath road.

The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.

This late 19th-century mock castle was built 'at great cost and with the best materials and workmanship' by John Turner Turner, a renowned sportsman and big game hunter.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size: 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins - a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

The Monmouthshire Canal ran from Newport to Pontymoile with a branch to Crumlin, which is what we see illustrated. The fourteen locks at Rogerstone were still in use when this view was taken.

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal climbs out of Yorkshire into the Pennines. After these three locks at Greenberfield, there is a short summit and a tunnel before the canal descends into Lancashire.

From a scattered fishing village based around two sandy bays on the southern coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, Abersoch has developed into a busy resort.