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A picturesque vista of Holt Hall, with its towering chimneys and many gables, cradled in magnificent parkland with shady trees.

This view of the cathedral from the north side shows sheep grazing in what is now almost the city centre.

The Boat House Inn ferry offered a more sedate way of crossing the Severn than by the nearby Kingsland Bridge.

Note the absence of road markings, the Co-operative shop on the left, and the various cars and passers-by.

This is a daily sight around the capital of horse racing - stable lads exercising racehorses on Newmarket Heath.

The spire, seen here from the back of the church, has been a landmark for mariners for centuries.

A great field tree survives in this rather dreary comment on the quality of mid 20th-century domestic

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

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

The bridge has been raised to allow the passage of a small paddle steamer, which is probably on an excursion from Scarborough.

On the right, there appears to be one of the few musical urinals in the British Empire: a combined toilet and bandstand.

Originally built in 1760 as a market house, the courthouse, which stands in the centre of the square, was enlarged in 1810.

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

The ancient parish church of Holy Trinity dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries and has an unusual brick-built chancel.

Looking west along the High Street, we see buildings which are characteristic of North Norfolk: flints set in mortar, with brick facings.

Looking west along the High Street, we see buildings which are characteristic of North Norfolk: flints set in mortar, with brick facings.

St Augustine's church is of the Early English period, with a later Perpendicular embattled tower with pinnacles. It was restored in 1860.

Although the base of the building may be older, the village pound, or lock-up, was certainly in use during Victorian times.

This gate is a Norman structure dating from 1262, and it is a rare example of a fortified gateway on a bridge.

Wednesbury grew rapidly between 1851 and 1861 with the opening of firms like the Old Park Works and Lloyds, Foster & Co.

The Bishops' Palace building was almost certainly attached to the inside of the curtilage wall; the bishops' tower has long been named by locals 'Coverdale's Tower'.

Ten years before, Cockerell's prototype hovercraft had made its first test runs off the mouth of the Medina.

The entrance is the small gateway just in front of the car. On the left is Leicester's gatehouse, which had been converted into a private dwelling.

This thatched cottage sits at the northern end of the village and was once a pub whose custom came from those travelling to and from Shropshire.