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Those who come to Hampton Court Palace by way of Bushy Park or from Kingston enter through the Lion Gates, which face the end of the splendid avenue of chestnut trees.

The variety of shops in Morden was to alter after the underground railway station opened in 1926 and large-scale retail development began.

The entrance to the railway station can just be deciphered in the far distance, with the public conveniences in front, standing at the junction of Bow Street and Fountain Street.

The statue of Oliver Cromwell was erected in 1899 to mark the 300th anniversary of his birth. It was the gift of a local non-conformist Frederick Monks.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.

The Hemel Hempstead Cricket Club plays at Heath Park, and Boxmoor Cricket Club plays on the 'Oval' in St John's Road. Hemel Hempstead (Camelot) Rugby Club use Chaulden Meadow.

This was once part of a quiet residential area, with orchards and gardens.

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat

The bandstand was the original feature at the end of the pier, and the Royal Italian Band (advertised on one of the kiosks on the landward end) were one of the first visiting bands to have

This picture shows the ruin of the donjon. The curtain wall was once a lot higher, but was reduced when the castle was slighted during the English Civil War.

The buildings on the corner of High Street and The Broadway were named Warwick Mansions.

A Saxon hill village, known as Gumeninga Hergae, or the shrine of Guma's people, in 767, it has now become well and truly subsumed into suburbia, and into Betjeman folklore through his poem of the same

Trudi Westmore-Cox trained as a nurse and saw a desperate need for a hospice in Basildon, where care for the carer as well as for the patient is high on the list.

The right to hold a market in the High Street was originally granted to the lords of the manor by Charles II, and afterwards confirmed by his brother James in 1685.

The Chartists held meetings behind the Unicorn Hotel and on one occasion a crude explosive device was found there. Fortunately, it was not detonated but it shows how serious matters were.

The Antonine Wall is being put forward as a World Heritage site, in collaboration with Germany, Austria and Hungary to mark the European boundary of the Roman Empire.

Behind that is the Station Hotel, a replacement of an earlier building of the same name built in 1936. Between the two buildings runs the railway, at a much lower level.

The Crown Hotel, situated at the west end of Blandford's market place, was refaced in its original Georgian style in 1938.

These dramatic falls are hidden in the depths of Dungeon Ghyll in Great Langdale, and are seldom visited by car-bound tourists.

A pair of ramblers (right) heading for the hills stride out purposefully past the Rayburne Hotel and cafe in the centre of Coniston village.

Looking from Henley's superb river bridge of 1786 with keystones carved by Anne Seymour Damer with the heads of Isis and Thames, we see the boathouses at the east end of Riverside, which are still in use

The west door of Winchester Cathedral - one of the city's most famous views. Inside is the stunning 12th-century black marble font from Tournai in Belgium.

Standing in the shadow of a great chestnut tree, the Royal Anchor Hotel, once a posting and coaching house, dates from the time of Samuel Pepys who found 'good, honest people' here.

Its lands were sold to John Bellow and John Bloxham, though they later passed into the hands of the Forsters of Bamburgh.