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The bushes to the left hide the site of the old abbey at Abingdon, founded in 676 and again in 955 after the original had been destroyed by marauding Danes. It was the mainstay of this area.

This well-known public house stands at the foot of the Downs. The area was noted for grazing sheep. There is a spring-fed well by the roadside next to the pub.

There was an urgent need for this school for the sons of Methodist ministers, for the ministers were re-located every three years.

Between 1801 and 1901 the industrialisation process brought tens of thousands of people into Staffordshire. The population of Cannock rose from 1,359 to 23,974; Wolverhampton from 12,565 to 94,187.

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Entering the town, you may see some of the following: several acres of Victorian housing, from railway-side terraces to detached, self-confident villas; a church with a nice green spire; a white

Those of you familiar with Amberley will see that this picture pre-dates the restoration of the battlements on the 14th-century gatehouse.

In the 7th century, Selsey was the cultural centre of Sussex.

Polegate, with its typical flint walls and buildings, lies just below the extreme eastern end of the South Downs.

Formerly in Worcestershire, King's Norton became part of Birmingham in 1911.

Pictures taken of Four Ways in the 1920s reveal a delightful rural scene. Only 30 years later, it has become just another branch of suburbia.

These overgrown ruins are the remains of a Cistercian abbey that once attracted pilgrims by the thousand in medieval times. They came to a shrine that was said to contain a phial of Christ's blood.

Once a small village, Wroxham has now grown large as a result of the number of people intent on a cruising holiday. Local businesses have flourished.

To the left are the 'second-class' houses of Marine Parade, the spire of St John's church, built in 1853, and the 'first-class' houses of the Esplanade.

This pastoral scene alongside the River Wey still exists, in spite of the proximity of the busy Farnham by-pass behind the camera.

At the foot of St Dunstan's Hill, this mock-Tudor fronted Charrington's pub stands at the crossing point of the old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed

St Ives Island, on which the Chapel of St Nicholas stands, is actually a headland joined to the shore.

The village pond, originally for watering horses, was filled in about 1960 and the area is now a pleasant village green, still with some of the original trees.

Cheaper prices led to a heyday of caravanning in the 1950s and 1960s which has continued, though not quite on the same scale, to the present day.

This very well-known Sussex landmark has an air of quiet beauty and dignified charm about it.

Bosham, which lies on the eastern edge of Chichester Harbour, is renowned for its picturesque setting and sturdy Saxon church, which contains an unusual crypt and the grave of one of King Canute's daughters

Amberley Castle, seen on the right, dates back to Norman times and was strongly fortified in 1377.

Situated just outside Horsham, the village of Warnham is noted for its large mill pond.

Here we see picturesque timber-framed cottages in the centre of Fittleworth, to the south-east of Petworth.