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Here children tentatively set out on a journey across the boating lake at Shoeburyness. This playground area was close to the sea.

The fishing off Sandgate was very good, with catches of plaice, codling, conger, and pouting the most common.

A fine selection of Edwardian pinafores, knickerbockers and caps is on display here.

A bus with solid rubber tyres heads towards its Camberley destination on a road that was not made up.

The land was purchased in 1801 for the grand sum of £8,000 from William Pitt, who had bought the land from one of his nieces.

Here we have a magnificent view of the broad sweep of the breezy seafront at Dover, with the castle overshadowing the town from four hundred feet above, and the Roman Pharos clearly visible beside the

The steam ferry boat of 1870 makes its presence felt as the smoke drifts across the woodland of Claiffe Heights; it has apparently just left the slipway beside the Ferry Hotel.

Chipping Ongar is so called because of its ancient 'cheaping', or market, and is still an important shopping centre. Until recent times, Ongar was the easterly terminus of the Central Line.

As the farmer leads his two draught horses along the road, the Convent of St Clare can be seen in the background.

In this picture we see most of Conwy's drum-towers, each of which is almost identical in size and plan.

Originally an inn, the house on the left of the picture is where Jane Austen lived during the last years of her life. The house was then called 'The Late Inn'.

Grafham Water is a reservoir for Anglia Water, constructed between 1962 and 1965, covering 2½ square miles - one of the largest lakes in England.

For away-from-it-all families, the open parkland extension of the Strand was ideal for a quiet riverside picnic, where the children could don bathing trunks and enjoy the unique delight of Medway mud

The union flags are out: perhaps the local people were celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth.

Milford on Sea's church, along with the one at Brockenhurst, was a survivor of the forest clearances and receives a mention in the Domesday Book.

The Green was, and still is, one of the more picturesque parts of Seaton Carew; the houses were mostly built in the early 19th century.

The spread of the holiday industry along the north-east Norfolk coast is reflected in this mixture of mobile caravans and fixed chalets.

Charlotte died at the age of 21. Had she lived, she would have been Queen instead of Victoria.

Grange-in-Borrowdale was originally founded as an outlying settlement from the medieval monastery of Furness Abbey. It is a popular centre for fell walkers. The peak of High Spy is in the background.

Gazing over the town of Windsor stands the imposing figure of Queen Victoria, depicted here two years before her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

Founded in 1823, this building, at the foot of The Mound, housed a statue gallery when this picture was taken. There was also a collection of casts that was open only to art students.

The ornate Victorian shop fronts of Dawson's and the branch of the Enfield Co-operative store, on the right, with their elegant lanterns, are in contrast to the stern brick frontages across the

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

The creators of the impressive neo-Jacobean panelling probably never expected that it would one day be partnered with a set of utilitarian chairs that would look more at home in a village