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The character of Antrim's coast is nowhere better expressed than where it is possible to see the black basalt overlying the white chalk rocks, as here at the Wishing Arch.

Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times, owing much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.

This photograph captures the Edwardian gaiety of the Thames at Boulters Lock, a particularly fashionable spot; here dozens of smart cruisers, punts and small craft parade before an admiring audience.

This hilltop village, at the head of the Coombe Valley, sits astride the main road between Bude and Barnstaple. It was once the Pilgrim's route to St Michael's Mount.

This photograph was taken along Roman Bank - which is not Roman at all – and the scene is totally different today.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

At that time, Exe Bridge was all that was needed to deal with Exeter's traffic. Today, a parallel bridge has been built, creating an enormous roundabout.

At this stage only the nave had been completed in its austere early English Gothic style.

The elegant Victorian life boat house with its round tower and conical roof, quite new at this time, has now gone, and a modern concrete life boat station replaces it further south-east, painted an attractive

Campers drift back to their caravans after watching one of Poole Harbour's famous sunsets.

Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England

This picture of the square at the south end of Dublin Street, is interesting in that it shows the original market cross, which was repositioned here when the Rossmore Memorial was erected in the Diamond

The mock timbered gables of Red House at Darley Dale are now home to a horse and coaching museum, which runs coach-and-fours through the grounds of nearby Chatsworth House for visitors during

Askrigg station is on the North Eastern Railway route between Northallerton and a conection with the Midland Railway at Hawes.

We go along the Frimley Green Road, and arrive at Frimley Green, with Wharf Road to the left of the picture. The shop and the house next door have been replaced by a modern parade of shops.

The shop of J Singleton, where you could shop and also acquire a haircut, is no longer a general-purpose shop.

The Normans transformed the Benedictine abbey into one of England's greatest Christian establishments, the abbey building being larger than Worcester Cathedral.

The village is situated at one end of the beautifully named Golden Valley.

St Peter's church was built in the 1830s to replace the old church at Hamsey, which was isolated on a former island in the Ouse meadows.

Here a little Victorian girl poses among the rowing boats laid up on the beach at Arnside.

Fishing boats lie at their moorings on the left, while a small cargo carrier lies moored just off the beach. Horses and carts were still the best way of loading and off-loading in a tidal harbour.

The church of St Mary the Virgin at Upper Swainswick dates from Norman times.

Barely 12 years old at this time, and still looking pristine, this mock-Tudor hotel was rebuilt and reworked by Herbert Green.

The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place. Only remnants of its medieval tower survive.