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It is fitting to end on one of the most profound reasons for Luton to celebrate recently: the local football club, Luton Town FC, came top of League One and were promoted to the Championship League

A local labourer and his dog obligingly pose for the camera on the sandy path leading from the summit of Leith Hill, at 967ft the highest point in the south-eastern counties.

King Edward VII, as Prince of Wales, spent a night here during a teenage walking tour in September 1856.

These two photographs show the market place over a span of ten years.

The entrance portico of this hotel is presently rather dilapidated, which gives a somewhat false impression of the extensive additions to the hotel behind what is seen in this photograph.

The lakeside railway makes a circuit of the boating lake and the paddling pool. Most of the park was devoted to children's amusements, but there was one backwater for swans.

East Cliff is a popular spot of rough grassland where the downs meet the sea. The beach could be reached by a series of steps known as 'The Hundred Steps'.

The Providence Chapel was built in 1828, and is one of Cranbrook's most memorable buildings. It has a seven- sided front made of timber, cleverly grooved to look like stone.

Helensburgh was described as '…a favourite watering place, is pleasantly situated at the mouth of the Gare Loch, and is laid out with the mathematical regularity of an American city'.

A view which highlights the growth of industrial Kegworth. In 1965 uncomfortably large utilitarian factory/stores nestle close to the church, among the irregular tiled roofs of an earlier era.

This attractive view of the Close looks westwards towards Choristers Green.The original campanile (Bell Tower) was behind the house on the left of the picture, and was removed in 1789.

Note the Ever Ready delivery van in the centre of the picture and the branch of Hepworths on the right.

The cliffs south of Milton are renowned for the profusion of fossils to be found. Examples can be seen in local museums and at the Natural History Museum in London.

Post-war expansion of Cambridge pushed the suburbs into outlying villages. We can see early signs of the requirement to control traffic flow with the now ubiquitous Keep Left bollards.

This little group is a fine example of grand architecture on a small scale, typical of estate villages where uniformity in building style blends in so well with the landscape.

This is a picture of tranquillity perhaps, but the Gipping was effectively a canal with a tow path, made to assist the carriage of goods upstream as far as Stowmarket.

The churchyard is on the right, and the wooded ridge of the spur south of Dursley flows across the horizon.

One of the university's architecturally more interesting buildings is the Brotherton Library, paid for by Lord Brotherton and containing over 500,000 volumes, including its benefactor's private collection

On the left is the facade of the 16th-century Cross Keys pub, one of Pangbourne's oldest buildings. Near it is Church Cottage, where Kenneth Grahame lived in the 1920s.

By the entrance is Epstein's sculpture of St Michael defeating Lucifer, one of his last works. The cathedral contains work by many contemporary artists, including Graham Sutherland and John Piper.

Barrow-in-Furness street lighting was provided by gas light in the 19th century, and many of these gas lights continued in use into the middle of the 20th century.

One of the university's architecturally more interesting buildings is the Brotherton Library, paid for by Lord Brotherton and containing over 500,000 volumes, including its benefactor's private collection

An evocative view showing, on the right, the statue of the fourth Marquess of Downshire. The conductor Sir Hamilton Harty was born in Hillsborough, where his father was church organist.

East Cliff is a popular spot of rough grassland where the downs meet the sea. The beach could be reached by a series of steps known as 'The Hundred Steps'.