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This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.

of the Broadway was totally transformed: in the early 1930s Arnolds Cottage, a double- fronted late Victorian villa, was demolished, to be replaced by a single-storey terrace of shops with a bank

The site of Goodwood Furnishing (right) was originally occupied by the Rimmer family's fish, game and poultry outlets, and it is now home to a branch of Lloyds TSB Bank in a purpose-built

There is still a bank on the corner, but the market cross of 1790 is now located to the right of the square, after standing in the park opposite between 1968 and 1986.

We are travelling out of the city towards Manningham Park and on to Shipley and Bingley.

The checkerboard finish on many of the buildings fronting the square is traditional and, in this case, dates back to the 18th century.

We are looking back from Bath Square, with the General Post Office on the right.

The photograph shows Bell Street as a quiet back street in a small market town with only one car and a solitary cyclist - a far cry from the busy shopping centre of today.

We now turn left from the High Street into Sheaf Street and look back down the hill to Brook Street. The scene appears very quiet, with only one car and a cyclist to be seen.

On the right is the old Belle Vue Tavern dating back to the 1760s, which was an earlier haunt for smugglers.

Probably dating back to a chapel-of-ease on the site in the 14th century, St Michael and All Angels is a striking landmark visible from most of the town.

This view looks back towards the town centre. These Georgian buildings with their refined sash windows have gone.

Further along The Broadway, and set back, is a row of shops which in fact incorporate a fragment of The Red House. This row was demolished in the 1980s to make space for a large office block.

Back in the days of Edward II, it was the principal town in the region for making fine linen. Its products were shipped to Yarmouth on barges capable of carrying several tonnes of material.

Churchtown can trace its recorded history back to the Viking landings, but it is also true that the settlement will have been in existence before the outcasts from Ireland made their way ashore.

building we see here is largely Elizabethan; we know from the local records that it was `new-builded` in 1597, but archaeologists have now worked out that some of the internal timbers date back

The Wye has long been famous for its salmon fishing, as records going back to the 10th century show. It has been controlled over the years in an effort to conserve stocks.

This view looks back towards the town centre. These Georgian buildings with their refined sash windows have gone.

Records show that St Lawrence stands on the site of a Christian church dating back to at least 1108.

Amesbury dates back to at least 973; it is the nearest town to Stonehenge, and has a population of about 6,000. In 980, Amesbury Abbey was founded for Benedictine nuns.

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.

The origins of the Pierrots go back to the London success of the mime play 'L'Enfant Prodigue', staged in 1891, and they remained in vogue right up to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Gatward's is still there, but John Jackson's business has gone: replaced by the Midland Bank.