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There is a toposcope just beside the Four Stones which was erected in 1929 by the Rotary Clubs of Stourbridge and Kidderminster.

Flat-capped fishermen enjoy a chat and a view of the Lower Harbour by the swing bridge (right) in the ancient port of Whitby, situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea.

The access to Butter Row Lane has now been improved by the demolition of the rather odd-shaped building on the right. The shop opposite it, then the post office, has also gone.

It appears to have been built in 1120 to replace a wooden church, which was probably destroyed by the Danes.

The thin strata of the rocks form attractive patterns in the headland, but they are soft and readily eroded by the sea.

The funds needed to build it were raised by the people of Romford, who were justly proud of the medical facility which gained a fine reputation.

Above the gate can be seen the arms of Sir Rhys Mansell (1487-1559), who by the reign of Queen Mary had become one of Glamorgan's chief landowners.

He and his descendants extended the house built by the Earl of Gowrie, but at the turn of the century the decision was taken to build a new palace.

The Van Dyck Room is so named because all the pictures to be seen on display have been painted by the artist, Van Dyck. It is also known as The Queen's Ballroom.

In 1808 a group of cottages stood on the western side of the road facing Dole Green, but only one early 19th-century building had survived by the 1990s.

Weather-boarded and glass shop fronts line this Edwardian street, which boasts a jeweller's, a draper's and silk mercer's named Stokes & Sons, and a trader by the name of J F Gammon.

In 1875 he formed the aquarium, aviary and menageries later purchased by the Blackpool Tower Company. A poster advertises the Victoria Pierrots.

These overgrown ruins are the remains of a Cistercian abbey that once attracted pilgrims by the thousand in medieval times. They came to a shrine that was said to contain a phial of Christ's blood.

Many of the thousands of visitors who arrive each year drawn by the trout farm and other local attractions probably leave in agreement with him.

When our cameraman visited Newton Aycliffe, it was still very much a new town and was still being developed by the Grenfell Baines Group.

On the left is the old Sea View Hotel, which was replaced in the 1970s by the dismal tower of the Transport and General Workers Union Holiday and Conference Centre.

The iron bridge, raised in 1914, carries the London road over the River Medway into Rochester; it replaced the old stone bridge, which had stood a little further upstream by the Bridge Chapel.

Laura Place you can look along Great Pulteney Street towards the Holburne Museum, built as the Sydney House hotel in 1796 to serve the Sydney Gardens beyond, a large hexagonal public park now bisected by the

Designed by the younger Wood in the 1760s, York House Hotel has descended to a Slug and Lettuce theme pub and Travelodge.

The bracing element of Skegness is amply demonstrated by the ladies' umbrella skills in the foreground.

Branston, around its church, has delightful winding lanes; by the church stands Hainton House of 1765, a Georgian house of some dignity.

The view along the grass-verged straight street is closed by the dignified 15th-century tower of St Guthlac's church.

The castle was dismantled by the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

By the 18th century, Bishop Auckland was an important market town at a crossing point of the Wear.