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This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds.

This is locally known as the back road to Lincoln, and it looks a well surfaced village road.

The A12 runs through the village, with Chapel Road (leading to the Congregational chapel of 1778) to the left and Blythburgh Road to the right.

Ollerton village was at the crossroads of three major routes, and its inns catered for the coaching trade, but now, mercifully, it is by-passed and tranquil.

Two miles south east of Rotherham,Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

As early as 1943, the parish council discussed the issue of whether Bovingdon would continue as a village or develop into a commercial or industrial area.

The village purchased it in 1223 and immediately miraculous cures began to happen, with dead people being restored to life. The same year Henry III visited the priory and granted the village a fair.

This village was once on the Darlington to Richmond railway line before its closure in 1969. The once thriving mill closed in 1947, and the Manor House, later used as a brewery, went in 1956.

When the first Earl of Dorchester purchased Milton Abbey in 1752, he had the entire village dismantled and rebuilt, moving it further away from his new home.

The Bank c1955 The village of Whitburn lies between South Shields and Sunderland. On the north side of the village green is this raised terrace.

This restful scene of the village pond in the High Street with its magnificent trees, thatched cottages and elegant pair of swans, fell victim to the sweeping expansionism and development of the 20th century

Prestbury, close to Cheltenham Racecourse, has the reputation of being one of the most haunted villages in England.

To see this small village in the absence of too many people is to get a feeling of how isolated these Cotswold villages would have been in earlier times.

At Fulking, 16th-century cottages still lie on either side of the village street that winds its way below the South Downs.

Two inns, the Britannia (left) and the Horse and Groom, still occupy the centre of this extended but fine country village that retains its atmosphere.

Castle Street is named for a Norman motte-and-bailey earthwork on the wooded hill above the village. The Fleur-de-Lis hotel stands to the right.

The village is part of the Holnicote Estate, the gift of the Acland family to the National Trust, to which many of the village's thatched cottages now belong - their preservation is thus assured.

The mechanisation of weaving in the early 19th century robbed the village of both its industry and population, and the hall, the inspiration for Ferndean Manor in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre, was

Village shop and parish church form the heart of this cliff-top village. Walls and houses are built of whole flints.

The limestone village of Conistone in Wharfedale is more correctly known as Conistone-with-Kilnsey, with its twin hamlet sheltering under the impressive overhang of Kilnsey Crag across the river.

The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel. Lever allowed villagers a vote about a licence.

This view of the village square, complete with its war memorial, shows the winding nature of the main village street; a coach is on its way to Chesterfield, 10 miles away to the west.

All the hustle and bustle of the annual horse and sheep fairs, held in the village of Topcliffe, on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, until the late 1960s, are captured in this splendid photograph.

Immediately south- west of the village and approached via Church Street is Langold Country Park, dominated by a fine lake.