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There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

The only set of traffic lights in Kettering coped with a trickle of traffic.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

An interesting picture revealing the extent of the differences in working practices that have occurred over 75 years.

The original castle was built on this site by Baldwin FitzGerald following his appointment by William the Conqueror as Sheriff of Devonshire.

The Norman fortress begun by Alan the Red of Brittany in 1071 dominates the entrance to Swaledale.

Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.

Behind the Barley Mow pub in the centre of the picture, the northern and southern branches of the River Wey unite.

At number 68, on the extreme left, Grimmond's Bakery and teashop is now visible, but Luxford's has become Eastman's the butchers, losing the lovely stained glass decoration from its plain frontage.

Here we have another view of this heavily traffic-ridden main road with its shopping parade. On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

Two brigs belonging to the Training Squadron ease their way pass Drake's Island.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

Shortly after this photograph was taken, the Ware Hardware Stores closed, and the building became tearooms catering for visitors to the town.

The tranquil village of Whitwell lies directly under the flightpath of aircraft landing at Luton Airport.

The octagonal canopy is over 12m high, and its ornate decoration emphasises the significance of baptism in the life of the church.

At the top of Sceptre Hill on the way to Tonbridge stands the Hand and Sceptre Hotel; built in 1663, it became an inn in 1728, serving during this time as a district court.

It was the creation of Bernard de Neufmarche, one of many Norman conquerors, to keep the Welsh in their place. This site, on higher ground at the confluence of the Usk and the Honddu, was ideal.

A splendid open car heads north, driving in the middle of the road. The house on the left had belonged to Dr Atkinson, who died in 1917.

An attractive village south of the railway line and the River Wreake, Frisby has a number of good houses.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

The Drill Hall (left), which was then the HQ of the 4th Battalion Royal Lincolnshire Regiment, has recently had a complete restoration; it reopened on 20 March 2004 to resume its place in the entertainment

The view is closed at the far end of the street by Norman Burton's, built in the early 1800s, and just to the right the café sign invites you to Frances Hill's tea rooms.

A few hundred yards along the present B1514 road past the turning to Pepys House, the road forks at the roundabout where the main road runs eastwards towards the A14 and the left road takes us