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Shipley, three miles north-west of Bradford, in the valley of the River Aire, is a busy town on the A65 Skipton Road.

In 1940, Aycliffe was one of the locations chosen for the building of a Royal Ordnance Factory.

Littlebourne is one of the charming villages which are scattered throughout the orchard-rich swathe of countryside which reaches between Canterbury and Wingham.

Little remains today of Shakespeare`s Forest of Arden, only isolated islands of woodland in a sea of agriculture. But the name lives on locally.

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

Viewed from just above the landing cove of this tiny fishing community on Veryan Bay, this scene has barely changed in modern times.

The earliest parts of All Hallows date from c1200; the chancel is 13th century, and Victorian additions include the east window and north aisle windows.

The County Lunatic Asylum was first built a little to the west of the town in 1820 to the design of the Plymouth architect John Foulstone.

Panoramic views of the city can be seen from the top of this tower, which was built in the 12th century to replace a previous wooden castle.

A horse-drawn carriage takes a journey into the extensive woodlands of Cranham, Brockworth and Buckholt. A century later this is still one of the most beautiful stretches of countryside in England.

Pronounced 'white'em', this is one of Oxfordshire's prettiest villages.

The elegant spire and pinnacles of the parish church of St John feature in many views of this town, situated at the foot of Skiddaw in the northern Lake District.

These elegant Scots pines on the shores of Buttermere are among the most photographed of any in the Lake District, but this must be one of the earliest pictures of them.

On the right is the imposing facade of the old National Provincial Bank.

The wharf tells of another watery enterprise.

As we leave the town in an easterly direction towards Skelton, our last view of Guisborough, and the resting place of generations of Gisborians since being opened in 1872, is the town's cemetery.

The Royal Medical Benevolent College was founded in 1855 to take care of doctors who had fallen on hard times, together with their widows and orphans.

The slums of the Gorbals were cleared, and in their place in the 1960s arose enormous tower blocks; in recent years they have been demolished to make way for low-density housing of a more humane

This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.

The 12th-century church of St Helen was the parish church for Garstang, two miles away. Until they acquired their own church, Garstang villagers had to walk to Churchtown.

The Park Keeper's Lodge and the Aviary The gardens were laid out in the late 19th century on the site of old Purbeck stone quarries formerly owned by the Goddard family.

This famous vista, taken from Bankside, shows the glorious dome of St Paul’s rising over the roofs of London.The river is edged not with the anonymous and monumental office blocks we see today but

Situated at the corner with Donegall Street, and very near the parish church, the academy was in a pleasant enough part of the town.

The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.