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In Edwardian days groups of customers surround traders as the business of the day is noisily conducted.

E J Baker, the High Street butcher, was delivering to the substantial houses, many of which still stand today.

The village church is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and parts of it date back to the 13th century. It actually stands inside the grounds of Clandon Park.

The advent of the power-loom, however, brought about a decline, but by 1900 new industries had sprung up, including printing at Locher Mill, a laundry at Glentyan Mill and flax and paper mills at Johnstone

North of Saxmundham, Yoxford was once a coaching stop on the London to Great Yarmouth route.

Standing outside the village Post Office on the left, the bewiskered elderly man leaning on two sticks and wearing a bowler hat was probably a figure of some status in the village, where there were a

Dartford is an ancient market-town which grew into a busy industrial centre on the River Darent, at the point where it was crossed by the Roman Watling Street, parts of which lie buried four feet beneath

It cost £9,000 to build, paid for by Mr John Walter II, proprietor of The Times newspaper, whose daughter Catherine died at the age of 23 in 1844.

The town of Richmond grew up round the Norman castle, which was begun around the year 1071 by Alan Rufus, a son of the Duke of Brittany, and William the Conqueror's man in these parts.

Within two years 1,000 houses were built, and by 1954 an average of ten new residents were moving into Hemel Hempstead every day.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.

Both the 800-tonne Swing Aqueduct and the swing road bridge have been opened to allow the passage of a steamer on the MSC.

Lacock was given to the National Trust in 1944 by descendants of William Fox Talbot, who lived at Lacock Abbey between 1800 and 1877.

The YMCA outdoor activities centre is on the western shore of Windermere, a little distance north of Lakeside.

Grove Street runs east from the Market Square, a mix of 18th- and 19th-century buildings, and a mix of shops and houses.

There is evidence of a Christian community in Overchurch (the original settlement, now incorporated into Upton) since AD 700- 900, and a Norman church building there survived until 1813

Chalets, a villa and the Bay View Hotel overlook the Hive and Burton Beach from the end of Beach Road. The sandy rocks of Burton Cliffs project towards Lyme Bay (left).

The church beyond is St Michael's, rebuilt in 1901 to the design of Sir Arthur Blomfield, who was also the architect of the Bank of England in London.

In the middle of this collection of buildings is a pub called the Admiral Rodney.

Two miles south east of Rotherham,Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This view looks from the garden of the Old School House, built in about 1850, and once the village school, of course.

Moving north of the Checker and across Abbey Close and into Abbey Gardens, we reach the site of the abbey church, which was about 300 feet long, and the cloisters and monastic buildings.

When this market hall was built a number of houses, shops and even a church were demolished to make way for it.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still