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Inside, the church is a tour-de-force of Victorian inventive re-interpretation of the medieval Decorated style.

A fine view of this busy and spacious Clacton street, taken a year before the outbreak of the First World War.

This wonderful view shows the East Devon coast from the great cliff of High Peak to distant Exmouth, circling part of the great sweep of Lyme Bay.

Standing on the bank of the Great Ouse about a mile from the centre of Kempston, the parish church is a stone building wherein the tower, at least, is Norman in origin.

This wooded area to the north of the town was laid out and intersected with walks in the latter half of the 19th century and remain today a pleasant, if steep walk to the northern rim of the bowl

This view shows Caerphilly following the restoration both of its fabric and its water defences by the Marquis of Bute.

The window boxes of the George Hotel are still a feature today, and the range of buildings on the right of the photograph continues to be used as shops, now antiques and furnishings, although previously

Here we see the river bank of the Ribble just west of the main railway bridge at the end of South Meadows.

Convenient it may have been, but many Lutonians saw the replacement of the Andrew Carnegie public library building with an example of modern architecture as an act of desecration.

The old village of Ealing was south of the Broadway, with the parish church beyond Ealing Green.

Like many of the small resorts on the west coast of Wales, the largely Victorian seafront enjoys a very seasonal existence.

The broach spire of the church with its lancet windows and its tower were added to the original structure in 1870.

The Beach House Temperance Hotel (to the right in photograph No 44204) is apparent on the left in this view of the broad Esplanade, looking towards the centre of the town.

Further up Church Road, we are looking at the backs of 18th-century houses on Church End, the lane which leads to the medieval parish church of St Laud, out of shot to the left.

Here is a general view of the old centre of Daventry. Comparing this with the earlier pictures, the memorial has gained a chequered kerbstone and a rash of road signs.

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

This view, with the Grand Hotel on the left, shows the extent of the beach.

Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lies between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

Boxes of Fry's cocoa are piled in the doorway of W Rogers' Golden Tea Warehouse on the right, and an assortment of children and adults have paused in the early afternoon to watch the photographer at

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

The interior of St George's Chapel is wide rather than high, an effect partly due to the consistent use of four-centred arches. The stalls were provided in 1478-85, carved by William Berkely.

After the First World War, a dignified war memorial was built at the north end of the Market Square with the names of the dead on bronze plaques.

We now move away from boot and shoe country into the south of Northamptonshire close to the border with Buckinghamshire.