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The buildings on the left survive, now with large shops built out at ground floor level, but the corner building on the north side of Lumley Road, to the left of the Clock Tower, has been (badly) replaced

The buildings on the right, formerly the Town School, were known as Maryport Chambers; they comprised the Ministry of Food and Labour, Devizes County Court Office and the Women's Voluntary Service.

The flatness of the Wolds is interrupted by the hill on which the tiny hamlet of Brigham sits.

Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch.

A dense procession of top-hatted gentlemen hurry along the pavement to their city offices. London Bridge’s lamp-posts were cast from the metal of French cannons captured in the Peninsula War.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

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.

Passengers take an opportunity to experience the sights and sounds of Belfast harbour as the Douglas packet makes her way slowly along.

Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey. The present buildings date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though some earlier Norman features survive.

It was also the birthplace of a useful invention: John Read of Horsmonden invented the stomach pump here, not the most glamorous association for a village!

De Montgomery was awarded Arundel, and given responsibility for defending the Sussex coast against possible French raids or even an invasion, both of which were considered a real threat.

Built in 1914 of local Longridge stone, this was the home of Sir John Townley and his family from 1947. Stone-framed windows, oak panels and a long drive suggest an earlier period.

We are standing in South Promenade, with the Chadwick Hotel on the corner. Lightburn Avenue was named after the second lighthouse at St Anne's.

Looking North-East to Fleet Street The junction to East Street is on the left, with Catherine Street on the right.

Situated in the forest of Charnwood, which was probably uninhabited prior to 1086, Woodhouse Eaves, with its close neighbour Swithland, is associated with the vast output of slate during the 18th

This inn is one of the 17th-century buildings in Westport to survive the Civil War skirmishes between the Royalists and the Parliamentary forces lead by Sir William Waller.

This superb Ketton stone-faced Gothic Revival church was built at the cost of just over £20,000 in just over one year, apart from the spire, for Squire William Fortrey by local architect John Wing (1728

The railway reached the fishing hamlet of Sheringham ten years later than its close neighbour, Cromer. Even then the trains arrived only from the Midlands and the North.

This is another view westwards from opposite the Bull Hotel, with a sighting of Boy Scouts in hats (beside the lamp-post) and a pavement placard for Devonshire Cream Teas.

It seems a fitting picture to conclude this selection of photographs and illustrate the pace of life in days gone by.

Here we move back to the west of the High Street. This view looks along Cheam Road, with the Cheam Road Hall on the right.

From early times, fishing was an important part of Paignton's living and trading.

The church, which dates from 1840, lies to the south of the castle motte, and close to the busy A50 bypass.

By the end of the 19th century, Church Road was Burgess Hill's main shopping centre.