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Now part of a strictly controlled conservation area, this group of shops on the corner of Green Lane and Norton Road blend into the environment.

The parish church of St Leonard has one of the finest towers in the county; the spire is 162 feet high.

Until the 1990s, this was one of the few places where the lifeboat was kept on the open beach. Further along Crag Path is the former red and white brick watchtower (centre).

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.

Only the keep of the castle now survives.

The streets are packed with onlookers, and anxious officials wait by the entrance to the site of the new town hall.

Historians are of the opinion that when the forester Purkiss took the body of William Rufus to Winchester, he must have travelled through or near Chandler's Ford, and roads here have been given the names

One of Oxford's most striking buildings, Keble is characterized by its red and blackish-blue brick, polychrome patterns, bands, chequers, trellises and buff stone.

This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

Only the distinctive three-stage Perpendicular tower of St Nicholas Church, in the centre of the picture, serves as a major landmark in this street - it has been radically changed during the past half-century

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

One of Masham's distinctive features is its large market place, where fairs would see as many as 70,000 to 80,000 sheep and lambs up for sale.

In the distance are the turrets not of the castle, but of the Cliff Railway which carried visitors to the top of East Cliff, the sandstone bluffs that hem in the east end of the town.

An assortment of small fishing and rowing boats has been hauled safely above the high water mark in this picture of the eastern end of the Marine Parade; the famous white cliffs are visible beyond the

Only the keep of the castle now survives.

Designed by Thomas Hopper and Edward Haycock for C R Mansel-Talbot, Margam was the subject in some of Fox-Talbot's earliest photographs.

Here we have a view of Alexandra Gardens looking westwards. When the preceding photographs (25607 and 35371) were taken, the photographer would have been somewhere at the far end of the gardens.

The next three Edwardian views show Christchurch Park, which was the southern limit of development at that date.

The church of St Wistan, which appears to have been remodelled in the mid 18th century, is of considerable interest for its rare, complete interior fittings of that date, enhanced by a number of good

Few canal sights in Britain match the splendour of the Caen Hill flight of 29 locks which raises the Kennet and Avon canal 230 feet over a two mile stretch.

Erected in 1924, this church replaced a building of 1829.

As the photograph clearly illustrates, the church was gloriously over-sized and over-opulent for an area dependent on butter, cheese and a little fishing.

A line of genteel houses is now an indifferent row of shops.

The lych gate was built in 1905 and paid for by Edward Huth in memory of his parents, who moved to Wykehurst House in the 1860s.