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There is a pub in the village with the lovely name of the Spinner and Bergamot - apparently it was named for two local racehorses.

Canvey Island has been a great Thames-side attraction for many years, though now the sea walls have been raised to protect the low-lying island in the event of the closing of the Thames Barrier.

Dovercourt is the seaside neighbour of Harwich, and for many years now has been its shopping centre; Dovercourt was mentioned in Domesday, but Harwich not until the 12th century.The development of

Rochford is a small town on the River Roach in south east Essex, a few miles to the north of Southend.

The old-style sign for Boots the chemists is in the centre of the left-hand row.

The Grange Hotel was built following the coming of the railway.

The tiny sign at the far end of the row of cottages reads 'Teas - Weekdays Only'.

The street today is a mass of shops and attractive buildings, none more so than Tuckers Hall.

There were plenty of fishing boats in what used to be known as Beer Roads. The rocky promontory, East Ebb, divided Seaton from Beer and kept the two places apart.

Henry Blogg, coxswain of the 'Louisa Heartwell', pictured here, was the most decorated lifeboatman in Britain, earning three gold and four silver medals, the George Cross and the British Empire medal

It is situated on the Avon in an extensive and complex area of water meadows and carriers which control the flow of the river downstream.The parish church is extremely old and surprisingly large

Yealmpton, always pronounced Yampton, stands on the River Yealm near to the end of its short journey from Dartmoor to the sea.

Bottle kilns were once a familiar sight throughout the Potteries, and there were about 2,000 of them in the late 1930s.

Here we see National Trust shingle and cliffs at the end of Beach Road, with the buildings (top right) comprising the Burton Cliff Hotel.

Built in the 1750s, Martock's Market House originally held a row of shambles or butchers' shops.

Berkeley at the beginning of the 20th century was a small town of just over 6200 inhabitants.

Brooke House, the town centre's only housing unit, opened on 7 July 1962. A 14-storey block of 84 flats, it was named after Henry Brooke, the former Housing Minister.

Pardey & Johnson traded from the gabled building on the left. Basically a grocery shop and off-licence, it also accommodated Wickford's post office around the time of our picture.

The Castle was bought from the Duke of Manchester by the Grammar School and Huntingdonshire County Council for £12,500 in 1950.

This runs for 30 miles through the heart of Cheshire, and ends by the locks of Grindley Brook just on the border with Shropshire.

By the mid-Fifties, Crown Square had taken on a much more urban appearance, with black and white kerb markings, a Belisha beacon on the right, and traffic signs in the centre of the

This part of south Derbyshire did not have the abundant stone for its buildings which the north of the county enjoyed, so many villages have a definitely Midlands, rather than northern, feel about them

In the middle of Great Whyte stands the 'dummy clock'. Erected by public subscription in memory of Edward Fellowes, first Baron de Ramsey, it has recently been completely refurbished.

to believe that there is an annual cheese-rolling charity race with local teams, many in fancy dress, bowling a 'cheese' (usually a log cut and painted to represent a Stilton cheese) along this part of