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As a reminder of Tetbury's wool trade heritage, an annual woolsack race is held up the town's steep Gunstool Hill, each competitor carrying a burden of wool weighing 65 pounds.

There is a small Garden of Remembrance here, together with one of the town's wells. The Bath House is behind, with its chalybeate spring producing water at a constant temperature.

A classic view of a 'boreen' or small road. The luxuriant vegetation reveals the almost Mediterranean climate of the west coast, whilst the roads hereabouts are dotted with isolated smallholdings.

This part of east Berkshire consists almost entirely of 19th-century development; here and there are a few large Victorian houses with huge plate-glass windows and free Renaissance decorations.

Here we see the stand of the Lancashire Cricket Ground, called Old Trafford, as it looked just over a century ago.

No town centre worth its salt was complete without its Co-op store. On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society.

In this picture we can see the remains of the two-storey rectangular fortified hall built by Fitz Osbern on the narrowest part of the ridge. It is not a keep, as its walls are only 3-6ft thick.

Coney Beach funfair was built in 1920 on an old ballast tip. The first ride was a figure-of-eight ride, housed in two World War I hangers.

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Algitha Road was officially opened on 13 July 1882, the fourth of that denomination in Skegness.

The sight of a man setting up a large tripod camera seemed to fascinate children: hundreds of pictures in the Frith archive seem to point to this.

A pair of loaded working boats head south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel.

Keay House - centre left - was named after the first Chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

The last two arches are showing signs of some form of reconstruction as the century closes.

The people of Gloucester would call Robert Raikes 'Bobby Wildgoose' as he walked down the road - he always looked grand.

The missing stone arch of Nanny Moore's Bridge marks the site of a mill.

A quiet hamlet on the north side of Kit Hill near Callington. Such a scene, but with an improved road and without the figure by the wall, would still be familiar today in many rural parts of Cornwall.

The House of Correction stood on this site until 1829. The county jail was then relocated and the new Town Hall was built incorporating some of the cells.

The ornate spires on the left form part of William Wilkins' screen which walls off the Front Court of King's College.

Malborough lies away from the coast, high above the Salcombe estuary, but it is an ideal place to stay when exploring the beautiful stretch of coastline between Bolt Head and Bolt Tail - the favourite

Malborough lies away from the coast, high above the Salcombe estuary, but it is an ideal place to stay when exploring the beautiful stretch of coastline between Bolt Head and Bolt Tail - the favourite

Shiplake is situated on a chalk cliff, prettily overhanging one of the loveliest bends of the river.

The Goatscliff entrance to the village of Grindleford is little changed today from the day when this photograph was taken.

In 1973 construction began on the Town Hall extension, a modern office block linked to the rear of the existing building by means of a first-floor bridge.

Walking to the right, we come to New College, which was completed in 1911; on its opening the size of the Academy was doubled.