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An overview of Ludham from the tower of St Catherine's Church shows the well-wooded, rich agricultural land surrounding the village before many of the hedges had been removed.

In a road of rather mundane buildings is the Palace Theatre, a remarkable building designed in a Moorish style by the Robert Adam of theatre design, Frank Matcham, for Moss Empires in 1901, with a seating

During the summer months there is a good service of steamboats between this interesting watering-place and London. Shakespeare's Cliff commands a broad view of the shores of France.

In the distance, the graceful Portland stone spire of St Mary le Bow soars sublimely over the City. It was the most expensive of Wren's refurbishments, costing £15,400.

In 1838 there was a grat conflagration which began in the rooms of Lloyd's coffee-house. Thousands of tons of masonry fell and the old Royal Exhange was destroyed.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machicolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

Of the great Benedictine Abbey of St Mary in Abingdon little survives above ground.

Impressive as this memorial to Viscount Leverhulme is, it should not be forgotten that there is another, and a very live one, on the Western Isles.

A thousand years ago, Fareham was a patchwork of ancient woodland, heathland, some cultivated fields, a harbour and a river.

The village in which John Bunyan once lived has almost become a place of pilgrimage.

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

Some of the streets of Vickerstown were named after renowned people from the recent Boer War (1899-1902).

The small stone village of Beddgelert stands at the confluence of the Colwyn and Glaslyn rivers. It sits in the shadow of Snowdon, and is a favourite tourist spot.

Holyhead is best known as the ferry port for Ireland, and stands on Holy Island, linked by a causeway to the Isle of Anglesey.

The town of Runcorn is behind the bridge; the retaining wall of the Manchester Ship Canal can be seen along the edge of the River Mersey.

This broad open space is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

Tetbury's Town Hall, or Market House, is one of the grandest of its kind found in the Cotswolds, and for centuries has been at the hub of the town's life and business.

This stretch of country used to have three major hospitals, the most famous of which was Cane Hill, built as a lunatic asylum in 1882.

Here we see the priory ruins viewed from the south as in the view of 1885; but by the time of this photograph, Margaret, later first Lady Gisborough, along with her head gardener, Kew-trained

The Triangle is at the centre of Cinderford.

Protected from overwhelming traffic by the encirclement of the Upton by-pass to the west and the M53 motorway to the east, Upton has changed little since these views were taken.

Here it is at the northern end of Charles Street, the architects' and planners' vision of utopia a la 1950s and 60s; dominat- ing the photograph to the left, in a Midlands-Miesian style, is Epic

Just visible inside the Round House is the broken granite stump of the old Newport Cross, which from 1529 to 1831 was the spot at which Newport's two MPs were declared.

This chapel takes its name from Dr David Lewis, the son of a vicar of Abergavenny, who became the first principal of Jesus College, Oxford. His tomb is on the left.