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The churchyard contains part of a Saxon preaching cross, found buried by the church in 1910. It is said to have been erected by Lady Godiva, whose son Aelfgar owned Upper Penn.

By the 1950s, it was becoming apparent that Chelmsford had a traffic problem: these Ford Consuls and Austin A35s, among others, had seen to that.

This imposing Ind Coope hotel was built close by. The original spa building still exists in the road to the left of the picture.

By the banks of the graceful River Wensum is the 15th-century gateway to the city's diminutive canal, which penetrates its way to the margins of the cathedral.

Inside is a splendid collection of a hundred portraits of members of great East Anglian families, which were bequeathed by the antiquary Prince Frederick Duleep Singh.

It is a tragedy of our century that the elevations of many of our finest buildings are defaced by the necessities of modern life. If only Mr Bird could have sited his garage elsewhere!

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

The Square is dominated by the 190ft-high Town Hall tower. Even in 1892 it was not the original; that had been so badly damaged by fire that it had to be demolished.

Designed in the Jacobean style by the Manchester firm of Hindle & Davenport, the Town Hall was built in 1901 to replace an earlier one situated in the Market Place.

By the time this picture was taken, Port Erin had been transformed from a fishing village into a popular resort.

The leafy Victorian estate village of Canford Magna was created by the Guest family of Canford House for their staff.

The village of Sea Palling was changed irrevocably by the east coast floods of 1953.

Malmesbury is virtually surrounded by the two tributaries of the River Avon.

It was occupied by the family of Jane Austen's brogher, Frank, between 1808 and 1811. An extension is said to have been added for Miss Ellen Osborne when she ran a private school here.

On the far right, opposite the end of the pier and hidden by the Devon mist, is Larkstone Cove, site of a lime kiln where Welsh coal burnt Welsh limestone to produce the lime that was vital to regulate

London Road continues as Colt Hill and was truncated by the Odiham bypass, which was opened in 1981. There is now only pedestrian access to Odiham Common.

By the more affluent 1950s car ownership had increased, and the resort's long sea front served as a convenient car park.

The Cornish Arms on the left has got a new sign on a post by the roadside, the monkey puzzle has been felled, and there is now a tangle of overhead electric wires spreading out from their poles.

By the 1960s, only craft drawing less than 21 ins of water could attempt the river north of Stourport, and even then their passage into Bewdley was blocked by a shoal about one mile south of the town.

The village of Rudgwick stands hard by the Surrey border, its church literally just a few yards from the county boundary.

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Note how the road and the river are sandwiched into the narrow gorge cut by the River Derwent following the Ice Age.

Duffield was an important place in medieval times, and the A6 passes by the foot of the tree-covered Castle Mound, the motte of what was once one of the most formidable Norman castles in England.

The town has become a haven for leisure yachtsmen, with many of its shops devoted to water sports and its old inns occupied by the sailing fraternity.