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Architecturally something of a dog's dinner with bits added to the 1860 house piecemeal, Bletchley Park is famous for the cracking of the Nazi 'Enigma' code during the last war, admittedly in huts around

Savagely pollarded lime trees line this quiet residential street with its bijou Victorian villas, several of which on the left have drawn their curtains, or lowered blinds, against the deleterious effects

One of Gloucester's new electric street tramcars rattles along Southgate Street in hot pursuit of a local horse-drawn omnibus.

This view, taken from St Peter's Street, shows the great parish church which dominates the west side of Norwich's great market-place.

This view, one of the earliest in the book, shows the east end of the cathedral with no east chapel, only ragged masonry. The Lady Chapel became ruinous in the 16th century and was pulled down.

Chideock (always pronounced Chiddock) takes its name from the castle of the de Chideocks, built around 1379.

The Backs of Cambridge are probably as well known as the colleges themselves. Immaculately kept lawns sweep down to the peaceful River Cam.

The huge oil refinery at Fawley cost £120 million when it was built; it occupied the site of Cadland Park, the former home of the Drummond family. This refinery was the largest in the United Kingdom.

The Barbican lines Sutton Harbour, long a fishing quay and the original port of Plymouth.

The Turkish palace-style pier of 1872 has onion-domed kiosks and an elegant promenade above the water to a romantic Sultan's palace.

At the bottom end of the High Street, in the old market place, pride of place goes to the water pump crowned by a gas street light. The gabled building was newly built at this time.

Modern buildings also replace most of those on the left of the view.

It was rebuilt thanks to the efforts of James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth.

At this time Moffat was one of Scotland's chief inland resorts, boasting several hotels, a hydropathic establishment and private boarding houses.

This church has a lantern tower and is said to be the resting place of 39 Lord Mayors. It is the Guild Church of York. It contains a 17th Century pulpit from which John Wesley preached.

Boscastle's rugged harbour is a romantic inlet, twisting and turning for half a mile between brooding cliffs of slate and shale.

The world-famous regatta takes place on a scenic stretch of the Thames between Henley Bridge and Temple Island, site of an elegant Georgian folly.

unique woodland resource - the city is the best-wooded city in the country with about 80 ancient woods within its boundaries - also received an important shot in the arm in 1999 when the success of a

Portsmouth Football Club The club was established on 5 April 1898, when six local businessmen bought five acres of land close to Goldsmith Avenue for £4,950 and formed Portsmouth Football Club.

Beside Liptons, the Pearl Assurance sign hides that of the Kings Head. Beyond, Lloyds Bank (established 1835) remains, with the 15th-century Star Hotel visible behind.

This is another of the Lake District's classic viewpoints, the backdrop formed by the peak of Causey Pike (2,035 ft).

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

The simple weatherboarded house with the half-hipped roof in the middle of the line of buildings is a public house. It is selling Westerham-brewed ales, though its sign is, unfortunately, illegible.

The white building on the left is Jubilee Cottages, built in 1935. Despite modern development, much remains of the old Winscombe immortalised in Theodore Compton's 'A Mendip Valley' of 1892.