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The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

In the middle distance on the left are the masts of ships in the lee of Drake's Island.

Allington is a hamlet on the Medway just to the north of Maidstone. It is best known for its castle, situated hard by the River Medway. This view shows the excellent defensive site of the castle.

A typical Pennine farmstead, sheltered by a sycamore and standing on the edge of the moors, lies on the outskirts of Walsden.

A number of Dorset villages take their name from the River Piddle, or Puddle, as it is sometimes known.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Wribbenhall is situated on the opposite bank of the river to Bewdley, and architecturally its streets are far more interesting than Severnside.

There are plenty of people about on this warm sunny day. To the left, children cycle in the road; others sit on benches or the pavement.

North of the bypass are Rumbridge Street and the High Street, offering quieter shopping streets.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

Rotherham Grammar School grew out of a free school that had been endowed through royal patronage.

The Lodore Hotel, at the southern end of Derwent Water, is a fine Victorian Gothic structure, built at the foot of the twin cascades known as the Lodore Falls, which were very popular in the Victorian

This murky view looks west from the Pool of London towards what was to become one of the mechanical wonders of the late 19th century.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.

The view from the roof of Bent's Brewery. In the 12th century there was an Augustinian priory in the village.

In an earlier conflict John Bowyer, who was baptized at Biddulph in 1623, raised a company of foot for the Parliamentary army, and served with distinction at Hopton Heath.

In the background, on the right of the picture, is the spire of the church of St Mary the Virgin.

The stone bench along the wall was the only seating in medieval times, and origin of the saying 'the weakest go to the wall'.

This magnificent building has a history all of its own. 'No part of Henry VI's scheme for a college was of greater importance than that of a church', according to the Eton guide book.

Again we are looking west from the central part of East Street with the illuminated sign carrying the initials of the Cyclists` Touring Club (far left) having dropped its `Wines and Spirits` in