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Note the branch of Woolworth's just visible at the end of the street, and the branch of Dewhurst the butchers among the other shops on the right.

Isolated in the flat fields south of Rye, Camber Castle, one of Henry VIII's coastal forts of the 1540s, is now over a mile from the retreating sea: well beyond Tudor artillery range.

This photograph captures the atmosphere and feel of the village around the turn of the century. Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

This is St Mary's Parish Church, seen from the north-west, showing the two bays of the nave and aisles extended in 1860 (right).

Sited away from the city centre in the last remaining enclave of 18th-century and earlier buildings, the Cathedral with its fine broach spire of 1862 would hardly wring an awed gasp from even the most

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester and to the west of the busy A6.

Not visible in this photograph, but well worth walking to see at the west end of the street, is St Stephen's church, a large and handsome building which was founded before the Norman Conquest.

At the height of the great slate trade of the 19th century, slate was shipped out from Porthmadog harbour, and the town grew steadily because of this.

On the western edge of the North York Moors, Osmotherly was a centre for milling, weaving and clog making, and it grew considerably in the hundred years from 1750.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Begun in the mid 1830s, Walton Hall was to be both the family home and the country estate of Gilbert Greenall, a wealthy local brewer and prominent businessman.

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

It is notable for its collection of grotesque gargoyles, and for two carved capitals which are derived from the stories of Reynard the Fox; appropriate in Cottesmore country.

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.

This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film. Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

A real mixture of shipping make up this photograph of Weston Point Docks.

The Town Hall and the Market Hall stand out at the centre; the large building to the right of the Market Hall is Samuel H Facey & Son's brewery, which opened in 1862.

Bude's canal, built in 1823, was something of an oddity. For its first two miles, it was a barge canal – as seen here. Then, freight was trans-shipped into small 5-ton tubs with wheels.

This cobbled street is one of the best known in this compact town, which preserves its medieval street plan almost intact.

Some of the flavour of the old village remains in this view today, which looks eastwards along Broadwater Street East.