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A crowd of people watch the bathers. Note the lady with a parasol. To the right of the picture, there is a swimmer on the diving platform.

Within a short walk of the Market Square are two interesting museums.

A typical feature of the Cotswolds, the centuries old craft of drystone walling flourishes to the present day.

North of Leyburn is the manorial village of Bellerby. Here the stream runs through the broad green in the centre. Around it are farm cottages, and in the middle distance stands the Old Hall.

Actually, it is not necessary to climb to the top of the Cloud to get an excellent view across Cheshire. This is the view from the road on the western side of the hill.

It still houses the excellent collection of historic weights and measures and the instruments of torture shown here.

The photograph shows the Royal Lodge as seen from the southern side of Snow Hill. It has changed very little since 1937 and is the home of the Queen Mother when she visits Windsor.

The middle section of well-remembered shops has now been replaced with department stores. The essence of a modern commercial centre is evident. Parking is at a premium, and it's not even market day!

The earliest Welsh photograph known is a daguerreotype of Margam Castle, taken by Calvert Jones. It was given to Christopher Talbot, builder of Margam Castle, and it hung in the castle for many years.

This photograph shows Eccleston church about ten years before it was rebuilt in the style of the 14th century by G F Bodley; the work was paid for by the first Duke of Westminster.

The popularity of Western books, films and television programmes in the 1950s and 1960s lured many would-be cowboys to this Wild West of the New Forest.

The church of All Saints at Fawley dates back to Saxon times, though much of the present building is Norman or later. The church was bombed in 1940, but has now been carefully restored.

In the 20th century, much of the low-lying marshlands around Fawley and Southampton Water beyond were given over to the import and refining of oil. Here we see a tanker unloading its cargo.

The octagonal Jacobean font is decorated with the arms of Scotland, Ireland, Maidstone and the Astley family, who were granted the former Archbishop's Palace in Elizabethan times.

Standing beneath St James's Chapel is the West Gate, a part of the town's 12th-century fortifications.

Other improvements included the provision of new lights, and the entrances were given clusters of ornate classical columns.

A sheepdog gathers a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep in the foreground. On the horizon, the brooding summit of Ingleborough can be seen, while a caravan site occupies the field under the viaduct.

Sheffield Polytechnic was formed in 1969 with the amalgamation of the Sheffield Colleges of Technology and Art; the new institution was housed in purpose-built facilities on land between Howard Street

Here we see the lower or Nether Bridge across the River Kent. Now part of the one-way system, the Nether Bridge links the older, western side of Kendal with the newer, eastern suburbs.

Another view of Chesterfield's sloping Market Place.

Fingle Bridge, typical of an old Dartmoor pack bridge, spans the River Teign.

Morcombelake, not far from Charmouth, originated in the early years of the 20th century as a retirement place for the elderly.

The cottages of the new village were probably healthier and more substantial than those of the old settlement.

The battlemented parish church of St James in the former lead mining village of Bonsall dates mainly from the 13th century, and has a distinguished pinnacled tower and spire built in the