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In Cheap Street is the Conduit, originally situated in the cloisters of Sherborne Abbey and used as a washing house, or lavatorium.

This view looks north-westwards from the south bank to the 1927-built South Bridge (left) which replaced a graceful five- arch Norman bridge.

This view from the roundabout looks north along Turner's Hill, where the contrast between the modern shopping parade and the smaller old shops can be appreciated.

Laygate Lane is one of a number of sturdy Victorian terraces in South Shields; many of them were built speculatively by developers as the town expanded thanks to the coal and alkali industries.

Even though there are no leaves on the trees, Lord Street is still busy; as at Blackpool, trippers visit all year round.

The area at the top of Staithes is known as Bank Top and here, in 1929, we see two recently- completed bay-fronted detached bungalows (right of view) which have been carefully positioned to take full

An interesting view from the south bank of the Thames looking east, before Christchurch Meadows on the left were made into a riverside park, and, more significantly, before Reading Bridge was built

The six-arched bridge, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, was built in 1864 using bricks made locally. During the same period he also rebuilt the church, which had become derelict.

A fire on August Bank Holiday Monday 1931 destroyed a small seaward end pavilion, erected in 1907, along with the mid-length shelters and shops.

In the foreground is the Grand Union Canal, with the houses of Blisworth and the 15th-century tower of the church to be seen on the opposite bank.

The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Henfield is a long, straggling village a mile or so to the east of the River Adur.

The River Mole forms the county boundary here, south-west of the church, so the right bank in the view is in Sussex. This is Long Bridge, seen from Church Meadow, now a more manicured space.

The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.

Cornwall's cathedral city is at the centre of a mining district and sits comfortably in a broad valley, at the junction of the rivers Kenwyn and Allen.

Through Stone Bow we look back across the setts to its rear, with the High Street stretching away into the distance through the archway.

Always bustling with shoppers, Falmouth's main thoroughfare turns to the right here at the church to continue along Arwenack Street.

The pebble beach beside Lyme Bay acts as a dam at Charmouth, and prevents the River Char from having a conventional estuary.

The mill is actially on the Bathampton or south bank of the Avon, beyond the toll bridge. In this view it has been converted into the Weir Tea Garden Hotel, and the meadow turned into a tea lawn.

A wide range of architectural periods is represented in Astwood Bank, though Victorian buildings are particularly numerous. The 1960s brought a number of new developments, of which this is typical.

All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.

All Saints' Church in the distance survived bombing and post-war clearance, along with a thatched pub, the quaintly-named Barking Dickey, which later became a greengrocer and then a bank.

At the end of South Gate is the Market Place, which has on its east side one of Lincolnshire's finest churches.

Now a busy road through the town, in the days before mass car ownership Deardengate was almost empty except for pedestrians.