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Facing us in the distance is Barnett's the fishmonger's, a local business in the Market Place of long standing - it closed in 2000.

The tower of the parish church was rebuilt in 1709.

The village of Wyke Regis, now a suburb of Weymouth, north from Chamberlaine Road (foreground).

The lighthouse was built by Trinity House in 1844; the occulting light at the top of its 50ft tower could be seen up to 16 miles out to sea.

It was formed as a hollow in the ground filled with melted ice at the end of the Ice Age. There were many such hollows, but most of them have long since dried out.

The beautiful white gates pictured here are not the ones that give this village its name - the name probably arose from much older gates at the nearby Vale Royal Abbey, once the largest Cistercian abbey

A busy late morning scene in Colchester's High Street at the turn of the century.The Town Hall, which dominates this view, was not completed until 1902.The High Street lies along the central axis

An unusual view of the Abbey Gateway—in the centre—and the bridge over the Cornmill Stream, a tributary of the River Lea, with people relaxing around the broken walls.

This church has the most impressive chantry in a Wiltshire village church, according to Derek Parker and John Chandler in Wiltshire Churches, an Illustrated History.

Recent archaeological investigations by The National Trust have revealed an arc of at least 15 stones buried in the circle itself.

A boy appears to be sitting for the photographer, perhaps wanting to lead him in to reveal some of the caves' secrets.

Five miles east of Wells in the eastern Mendips, Shepton Mallet was a prosperous wool manufacturing town, which declined when northern England's Industrial Revolution got under way.

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

A typical station approach of late 19th-century houses and the aptly named Railway pub.

Bandstands are, by their very nature, fascinating pieces of municipal equipment.

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

Both the Rose and Crown (left) and the George (right) public houses thrive, but the corner shop (left, beyond the Rose and Crown), in this photograph Norman the grocer's, has led a chequered life, being at

On the left is a Wealden-type house of c1400; it was restored in 1974-76.

This view of the 1935 Silver Jubilee seat is taken from outside the King's Head on the A12, looking down the High Street.

This hotel was probably first built at the end of the 18th century, when the Turnpike Trusts began to improve the county's roads.

The No 14 bus chugs up Dee View Road from Heswall Village, passing the Dee View Inn on the right, which stands on the junctions of Dee View Road, The Mount and Dawstone Road.

St Illtyd's is built in the Decorated style and dates from the early 14th century; the nave was rebuilt and a north aisle added in 1849 at a cost of £1,200.

The post office at Ayot was used by George Bernard Shaw in a rather lesser known play, 'A Village Wooing'.

Randell House was previously called All Saints' Home; it housed young homeless children from London slums until 1937, when it became a house of rest and prayer for ladies.