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Between West Deyne and School House on High Street West, this was once an academy for young ladies run by Miss Jemima Adams.

On Saturdays the rush to the seaside was catered for at Temple Meads with additional trains at 12.00 noon and 12.57pm, and an extra one from Bedminster at 2.04pm.

Model sailing boats ply back and forth across the pool. In the background is the Moot Hall of c1540; in front is the war memorial, now surrounded by a garden.

This wild and rocky landscape in Wester Ross is typical of the Highlands. The looming quartzite peaks of Beinn Eighe are in the background.

The lane down to Skinningrove village runs off at the bottom left-hand corner. On the skyline we can just see the overhead tramway carrying buckets of ironstone from one of the mines.

In the 1930s, the Knap Hotel was owned and run by Mrs R Luen.

Maiden Lane appears more commercial today than in this view, which was taken from the gateway to St Michael's churchyard.

We are looking north from the railway station and level crossing, and there is little of distinction in the architecture.

Bronygarth sits across the England-Wales border, which at this point follows the line of the River Ceirog in the valley.

Kingsdown stands on the coast where the white cliffs of Dover give way to the extensive shingle beach that runs eastwards to Walmer & Deal. Caesar is said to have landed in this vicinity in 55BC.

We are looking eastwards down Main Street from Chideock House (left) and what is now the Old Post Office (right). It was run by Charles Gibbs and his daughter Hilda.

Semer Water is the largest natural lake in Yorkshire. It is drained by England's shortest river, the Bain, which runs into Wensleydale at Bainbridge.

The River Wye frames the town centre, running in a loop around the western and southern sides.

Each of these photographs takes the eye closer to the village centre with the railway now in clear view.

The village had once been a centre for lead-mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, though there was still some quarrying carried out in the locality.

Much of this scene had not changed since before the war. The post office (near right) was run by F S Mowlam in the 1950s. Further on we see the gabled end of the White Hart Hotel.

A herd of contented pigs rootle opposite the post office on the green which runs alongside a two-and-a-half mile stretch of the Romans' Stane Street.

We are looking east towards the Presbyterian church of 1870. On the right is the Crown and Anchor Hotel, whose landlord was Charles Quilter.

Little has changed at this junction on the roads to Newnham and Hinxworth, known as West End and Back Street.

The 'Hotspur III' was launched at the end of January 1938. It joined 'Hotspur I' and 'Hotspur II' running from Southampton to Hythe every half an hour during the day.

Buses still use the Broadway and Northbrook Street but today traffic cannot use the section of the latter thoroughfare much beyond Wheelers Garage during the daytime.

Visitors to the tourist attraction of Stockbridge enter downhill at either end of the High Street. Almost a mile long, it runs east-west, with narrow ribbons of houses on either side.

An ornate 19th-century fountain graces the park.This is one of three parks in Darwen, all very different.

Only 5 years after photograph No 23331, D G Roberts have expanded: their shopfront is longer and fronted by a mini-arcade, and they now have a first-floor showroom with a plate-glass window.