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A Roman villa was unearthed at Carisbrooke in 1859 and found to cover an area of some 120 feet by 55 feet.

For centuries a strong tide has swept up Wootton Creek to work the ancient mill - one of the very few tidally- powered mills in the world.

The Market Place contains an interesting architectural mixture of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings. St Mary's Church has a fine knapped-flint chancel.

The City of Plymouth has given its name to some forty other Plymouths around the English-speaking world.

The coves around Dawlish and Teignmouth were used extensively by smugglers until Isambard Kingdom Brunel built his atmospheric railway line and the accompanying cliff tunnels in the first half of the 19th

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

The grace of the pier is matched by the best dresses and suits of the promenaders.

A battalion of the Black Watch parade on the castle esplanade.

The oldest parish church in Edinburgh, St Giles's was erected in the early 12th century on the site of an older building.

The hospital was erected and endowed for the maintenance and education of up to 300 children, of whom 100 had speech and/or hearing difficulties.

The west front is at the end of a very long fourteen-bay nave.

Above the doorway of the shop on the right is the famous logo of 'His Master's Voice' - the gramophone had become a fashionable gadget in every home.

Even in wartime the strict dress code for Weymouth beach remained, though many of the soldiers and sailors stationed in the town would seek out lonely coves in the vicinity for a spot of

This modern replica of an Irish round tower was built in 1869 to mark the tomb of Daniel O'Connell in Glasnevin Cemetery.

This view brings out the tremendous bustle of Brighton's beaches, dotted with small sailing boats and lines of bathing machines.

On the right, a contemporary wing of singular quality lurks behind the petrol pumps. For show, transportation of an earlier age adorns the forecourt.

Holy Trinity church is a most unusual building in that a number of shops are built in it. In the 1900s these included a tobacconist's, a bank, and two butchers.

Albert Park was opened by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, in 1868, and the land was purchased for the town by Henry Bolckow.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House. The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

Rockley Sands was one of the earliest holiday camps. It catered for family groups who wanted outdoor holidays with plenty of activities.

Bundles of Norfolk reed lie stacked at the edge of Ranworth staithe awaiting collection by thatchers. The Maltsters Inn can be seen across the road.

Stow-on-the-Wold is the junction of eight major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, and has always attracted travellers from far and wide.

By 1921 the green fees at the Old Links, St Anne's were 2s 6d on weekdays and higher at weekends, whilst the Lytham & St Anne's club charged a fee of 5s for play on any day of the week.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was acquired by the Crown before becoming part of Pembroke College. Its members worshipped here until the college built its own chapel in 1732.