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At Romney Lock, a Salter Brothers' passenger steamer – the 'Nuneham' – heads towards Windsor Bridge.

This reconstructed wayside cross stands on the old highway between Worcester and Evesham. Only the steps, base and shaft of the original remains the rest having been destroyed at some time in history.

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

Commanded by Capt J T Ross, the Belfast Steamship Company's express passenger steamship SS 'Dynamic' carries the Belfast Harbour Commissioners on their annual inspection in 1896.

In Eliza Street, a number of children are at play.

On the right is the Town Hall in all its Gothic splendour, which was completed in 1873 at a cost of £100,000.

Sir George also designed the physics laboratory at the Royal Fort, which was opened by Lord Rutherford in 1927.

At this time, the buildings on the right are awaiting their fate - they were eventually pulled down. But they themselves had their origins in encroachment on the original larger medieval market place.

There used to be two churches in Histon, but St Etheldreda's, not far from this one, St Andrew's, was demolished in 1588 to provide materials for a new wing at Madingley Hall.

Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby School, immortalised in 'Tom Brown's Schooldays', was born at Cowes in 1796.

There used to be two churches in Histon, but St Etheldreda's, not far from this one, St Andrew's, was demolished in 1588 to provide materials for a new wing at Madingley Hall.

A horse looks with interest at the two little boys in the road. The old road to Camelford and beyond, later becoming the A39, climbs steeply up Gonvena Hill from the bridge.

RECORDS of a harbour in Margate go back to the 14th century, when it appears to have been a small wooden structure sheltering the local fishing vessels.

Because the square was the home of many businesses, the rank would usually be a busy place, with customers coming and going.

Following the death of Admiral Chaloner's widow, Amelia, in 1902, the Gisborough estate was inherited by Richard Godolphin Hume Chaloner, later created First Lord or Baron Gisborough.

Today most of this area is covered by housing, part of the expansion of the town since the mid 1970s. On the left is Tuns Passage.

Although resented at first, the State Management Scheme soon became a badge of the city and brought many benefits.

The auction, which was held in Macclesfield in October 1938, was a spectacular failure, so much so that less than a tenth of the lots were sold.

This view shows part of the original castle moat, which was drained in 1862. At that time the rose garden was created, which lies within this beautiful woodland setting.

This view of the High Street at the Cross shows the war memorial (right). The Express Parcels Service is advertised next to the 18th-century Rose and Crown (left).

The restoration was directed at putting the house into a representation of what it might have looked like in 1564. The garden was planted out with trees and flowers mentioned in the Bard's works.

This stately home stands at the higher end of the village of More Crichel. An older building burnt down in 1742; the house we see here was erected soon afterwards by the Napier family.

The last remaining windpump in Cambridgeshire was taken from nearby Adventurer's Fen and resited at Wicken Fen in 1956.

The Wet Dock was constructed between 1839 and 1842, and at the time it was the most revolutionary and the biggest of its kind in the country.