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If we stand where this picture was taken, we can see that the row of thatched cottages remains.

Bursledon consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.

John Sell Cotman, who founded the Norwich School of Artists with Crome, was born in this riverside village in 1782.

Taken from the bridge, this view looks along a busy Embankment to Embankment Gardens in the distance with its tree-lined river bank.

Grassington was at one time a centre for lead mining, but by 1900 it was once again reliant upon agriculture, athough there was still some quarrying in the locality.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

The bank on the right was Simonds Bank, opposite Princess Street, now called Princess Way.

Worcester was a walled city until the 18th century, and witnessed a great deal of conflict, particularly during the English Civil War.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

This picture faces the opposite direction to the previous one. The cabman's shelter seen in photographs 49616 & 64564 on pages 34 to 36 is still in place.

The Barclays Bank building was designed in an Elizabethan style by William Eden Nesfield in 1874 - at the time it was the Gibson and Son bank.

This picture, on the banks of the River Towy, was obviously taken in the fishing season, where coracles were used for their convenience.

The beautiful River Avon penetrates to the very heart of England at Shakespeare's Stratford.

Of the businesses that surrounded the square in 1922, only four remain in their original positions: Barclay's Bank, originally built for the East Cornwall Bank in 1885 with the town clock on its corner

This first one starts on the banks of the River Trent and crosses the grain of the county: the limestone ridge, the chalk Wolds, the flat lands between the hills and the knobbly coastal sand dunes.

On the left outside Rodber's furniture and floor coverings shop can be seen tables, beds and a chest of drawers, and also their delivery van.

It used to be said that George Square reminded visiting Londoners of Trafalgar Square, but the central column was a monument to Sir Walter Scott rather than Lord Nelson.

At the other end of Grove Street, Bank Square took its name from the Union Bank of Manchester, with its fine clock and cupola.

For years it was believed that Bamburgh in Northumberland was the world's first lifeboat station when a converted coble was placed there in 1786.

This view and 27204, pages 72-73 are well away from the town; the banks are consequently more thinly populated and the boats, punts and skiffs far fewer than one might expect.

South of the Redhill/Reigate built- up areas are the Earlswood Lakes, which lie in the midst of the grassy heathland of Earlswood Common.

Victorians promenade on the newly-opened second Swanage pier.

The south side of Windsor Road lay undeveloped until c1880 with the construction of the block seen here beyond the roundabout.

The five-arch later 19th-century red-brick bridge still rather pompously carries a narrow roadway across the pond in the south west angle of the Heath.