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On the right is part of the Marine Dealers' Stores run by the famous St Ives 'naive' painter Alfred Wallis. Works of Wallis's can be seen at the St Ives Tate Gallery.

Once known as Alfred Street, Burnham's main shopping street was an avenue at one time; but the trees were removed to accommodate traffic.

The Shropshire Union canal runs between Wolverhampton and Ellesmere Port. It passes through delightful countryside, especially around the Wheaton Aston area.

This photograph shows Cornmarket Street running down to Carfax, with the outline of Tom Tower dominating St Aldates on the far side.

The Furness Railway paddle-steamer 'Philomel' entering Fleetwood. Built in 1899 for the General Steam Navigation Co, the paddler was purchased by the Furness Railway in 1907.

Slad huddles round the road that runs from Stroud to Birdlip. When this photograph was taken, the village was an isolated rural community with most of its inhabitants engaged in agriculture.

Lose Hill, at 1,563ft, is the eastern extremity of a fine ridge which runs from Mam Tor.

The Bowl Inn, when Georges' Beers was still a family run brewery. Scottish Courage's Bristol brewery is said to be the largest in the UK now dedicated to the brewing of real ale.

Shops like this might see no more than a dozen customers a day, and were often run by widows, struggling to pay the rent to the landlord as well as suppliers' bills.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side-by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

The High Street (the A6 Leicester/Derby road) becomes Leicester Road as it runs south.

The closest the railway ever reached to Britain's most southerly spot was Helston, eleven miles away, so visitors had either to come by car or take one of the excursion buses which were run from 1903 by

Brittany Road runs inland from Kingsway at the corner shop pictured in photograph No H128002.

St Thomas Becket church is at the east end of Cliffe High Street, which runs west to cross the Ouse into School Hill and Lewes proper.

This is the view from Rochester Castle looking across the River Medway.

Some of the water off the surrounding high ground runs through Glen Rushen and Glen Mooar before entering the sea by way of Glen Maye.

Lightermen pose on barges at low tide at one of the many working wharves.

Electric trams began running in Bournemouth on 23 July 1902, though they were eventually given up in favour of electric trolley-buses.

North of Leyburn is the manorial village of Bellerby. Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre. Around it are farm cottages, and in the middle distance stands the Old Hall.

This is the view south along the beach from Rockley Point. The road to the main buildings and Poole can be seen running up from the beach by the ice cream hut.

All the buildings in the picture survive, although the shop fronts have changed. The white and gold-fronted Lyon`s tea shop is now an Italian restaurant.

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway—surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country—running alongside.

The railway was a working narrow gauge route running passengers up to the Corris quarries and bringing slate back.