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An empty pair of boats head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal. Unusually, the butty has no steerer, although the tiller is in place.

In this view the thatched King's Head on the left and the Red Lion in the distance are 17th-century buildings amid the early 19th-century three-storey ones, which belong to that later phase of economic

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

The Ram's Head is in the foreground, with the Parr Arms just behind.

A paddle steamer momentarily obscures Penarth Head on route to Cardiff where it will join the massed ranks of vessels from all around the world.

This is a scene that we seldom come across these days – a traffic jam caused by a lorry meeting a herd of cows walking to, or perhaps from, their milking parlour.

Gawcott, a mile and a half south-west of Buckingham, lies at the head of a stream (flowing north into the River Ouse) whose course runs along the right-hand side of this road.

At the divide, under the clock tower, the left-hand fork heads for Pinner village, while the right-hand one will cut through the mediaeval deer park at Pinner Park to Hatch End.

The International Stores (right) has had a shop here since c1900, but by 1986 it had become Gateway.

Here the River Parrett heads towards the sea. Bridgwater was an important port, with railway docks and the terminus of the Taunton and Bridgwater Canal.

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile, a gent's outfitter's; in the centre are the Tiger's Head (landlord Edward Smith), and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

Clacton's pier opened at the height of the pier boom in 1871; extensions in 1890-93 included a new polygonal head, complete with a pavilion.

Feock is on a peninsula at the head of the Carrick Roads on the Fal, and without a car the bus would be the only way to get to Truro.

The start of an adventure for this group of youngsters as they embark for a trip around the pier head? Or will they be transferring to a bigger craft moored further out?

It was from the Old Boar's Head in Fleet Street that travellers could take a coach to Colne or Manchester.

After years as a pub and hotel, the King's Head underwent major and scholarly restoration in the 1990s, and the front is now coated overall with yellow ochre limewash.

The one hundred heads on the exterior are carved by Edward Smyth. It is now known as the Church of the Most Holy Trinity.

Each of the four square corner towers is topped off with octagonal machicolated turrets, from which unpleasant things could be dropped upon the heads of unwelcome visitors.

There were once four pubs in Great Budworth – the White Hart, the Ring o'Bells, the Saracen's Head and the George and Dragon (left), the only one to survive.

The King's Head dates back to at least 1726, but it underwent a major reconstruction in the 1880s.

Saracen`s Cottage (far left) once accommodated servants and horses whilst their superiors were staying at The Saracen`s Head, Dunmow`s main coaching-inn.

In the background a trolleybus is about to pass a tram as it heads towards the Town Hall. Like the electric tramcar, the trolleybus drew its power from overhead and did not require rails.

A mother and her two sons head home (right). Since the 1930s thousands of houses have been built in Portchester. The A27 is at one end of Castle Street.