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Known locally as Jacob's Ladder, the original steps date back six hundred years. Coffins would have been carried from the town below up to the church.

Built to provide a theological lecture room, the Divinity School dates back to 1427-80.

After all, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had also visited the town back in 1847.

A little further downstream, just through the railway bridge, the view down river from the Staines bank has changed; now there is extensive housing development on both banks, much fortunately still hidden

A little further east along the Essex shore our photographer reaches Tilbury and continues his maritime theme; he firmly turned his back on the remarkable 1670s Tilbury Fort, built by a Dutch engineer

This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.

Conditions here were so bad during the Great Blizzard of 1891 that the local blacksmith and his apprentice had to dig their way to the local well and then dig back across the village to get water to relatives

The Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

The company began in 1847, and the brewery tower dates back to 1869.

Near the middle of Wales, sheep are driven along a back road near the old market town. Llanidloes was one of the major centres for wool and flannel production from the late middle ages.

The scene is backed by the then new police station.

This is the scene looking back down Kirkby's Main Street towards the Royal Hotel, which can just be seen in the distance.

This view looks back towards the town centre with London Road to the left by the Marquis of Granby and the tram leaving London Road.

Replacing much smaller and increasingly inadequate local facilities dating back to the 1830s, the requisite funds came in from across the social spectrum.

He built a studio at the back of the house, and used local people and places in his genre paintings.

On days of royal celebration, buns are thrown from the balconied roof; this tradition dates back to the coronation of George III.

The High Street has many interesting houses, some dating back to the 16th century. Over the years they have been repaired and re-fronted, making them look more modern than they really are.

Ellington's church is mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, but the oldest surviving part of the building dates back to the 13th century.

Back into Willingdon, continue north to turn towards Jevington, through Wannock, and onto the scenic Jevington Road.

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

The Bishop of Durham claimed Barnard, and he actually occupied it from 1296 to 1301, when Edward I took it back.

Of interest here are the prams; try getting one of these into the back of a Volvo estate car. The far pram is all the more interesting in that the design of the bodywork is ornate lattice-work.

St Mary's Church at Kempsey lies close to the banks of the River Severn, a few miles south of Worcester. Much of this interesting cross church dates back to the 13th century.

By the 1930s the tiny hamlet of Hare Street had been swallowed up into Gidea Park.