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This photograph looks west. The ducks still paddle on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office and Stores (centre) is just a house now.

Wellington, about ten miles south-west of Taunton at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, is an attractive market town with its focus where South, Fore and High Streets meet.

This view looks west from Aberamffra Hill and harbour, just east of Barmouth. The swing bridge is visible on the left.

The church dates mainly from the late 13th century, though the west tower is later; in 1474 William Fitzherbert left £40 in his will towards construction costs.

Woodford, Waltham Abbey and West Ham were all disappointed.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

Two miles south-south-west of Bridgend, Ogmore was originally built in 1116 by William de Londres to guard crossing points on the rivers Ewenny and Ogmore.

The southern pavilion was rebuilt and extended only two years after its initial construction. Landing stages were built in 1896, and these were also extended in 1901.

The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

Situated to the west of Romsey, Sherfield English lies close to the county boundary with Wiltshire. The pub is still there, but Strong and Co of Romsey has long gone.

This looks eastwards up West Street, with hand-carts and horse-carts, and plenty of activity in the Market Place, beside the Town Hall (right).

When Leeds town hall was opened by Queen Victoria, the streets were lined with palm trees and triumphal arches.

In recent years, land to the west of the village has been developed for sports and recreation. To the north-east, houses have been built up to Charlton Nature Reserve.

The island of Iona, near Mull off the west coast of Scotland, is known as the cradle of Scottish Christianity or 'The Mecca of Gael'. St Columba built his monastery here in AD563.

The Pearl Assurance sign has gone, and the upper windows of this building have been replaced, but the unusual brick and stone work above them is still there.

On the left is West's Garage, offering Shell petrol and BP car batteries.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

The railway arrived in Snodland in 1856, connecting Maidstone West with Strood.

This is a quintessentially Welsh west coast environment, exposed, and enjoying little vegetation. Low, single-storey whitewashed cottages face up to the marine elements.

Note the hay rake, coal-scuttles and assortment of pip- ing and rope adorning the window of the local iron- mongers in the centre of Lyndhurst.

The street rigidly defined the neighbourhoods of rich and poor. To the west were the homes of society families and to the east a poor and wretched neighbourhood, part of which became Soho.

when railway engineers were convinced of the impossibility of constructing a rail link over Shap, Fleetwood was conceived in the 1830s to link trains from London with steamers to Glasgow and

The lanes and streets of Porlock wind delightfully between attractive whitewashed and thatched houses, including The Ship Inn with its characteristic external chimney stack in the centre of the street