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Here we see the unchanging pageantry of the Changing of the Guard. Since it is not summetime, there are few tourists.

Here we see one of the inscribed stones, restored for the centenary of the park in 1993.

Stanhill Post Office was the home of James Hargreaves, the inventor in 1764 of the Spinning Jenny. His invention made an enormous contribution to the textile industry.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the River Bure from the village street. Handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses line the grassy banks.

King's Norton is less than two miles from Bournville, and though urban sprawl between the wars linked it to Birmingham, the old village still retains much of its rural character.

Solid Georgian houses group around the crossroads in the middle of Fremington, just outside Reeth in Swaledale.

Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, still holds its market every Wednesday, just as it has done since medieval times.

According to a directory of 1899, it then consisted of a post office, a blacksmith, a grocery shop, a bakery-cum-beer shop, and a few farms.

Boots is not shy of advertising itself - no less than four signs are visible here, two of them huge.

The stone pavilion on the left, known to Plymothians as the 'Wedding Cake', was built in 1891-2 when Alderman Harris was Mayor.

The stone reads: 'Here stood the oak tree on which an arrow shot by Sir Walter Tyrrell at a stag glanced and struck King William the Second surnamed Rufus on the breast of which he instantly died on the

Milford on Sea's present exquisite church started out in Norman times, though much of the surviving building is 13th-century.

Cyclists were still quite safe to meander along in the middle of the road when this photograph was taken in Collingham, near Wetherby.

A number of Co-operative Society factories are located in the North East, the vast majority around Pelaw, where hundreds of products are manufactured, ranging from furniture to clothing and cleaning materials

This view shows well the more varied architectural styles after the 1850s compared with the stucco ele- gance of the Burlington on the right.

A clock peeps into view high above the quadrangle of Balliol College, one of Oxford's three oldest colleges.

The church tower rises above these small weatherboarded and tiled cottages in a side lane off the main High Street.

However, the gradual silting up of the Doom Bar outside the harbour has limited the size of ships that can berth.

Both the stationers, Poysers, and the shop of the noted Wisbech footballer, Jesse Pye, now form part of Robert Goddard's clothing outlet.

Visitors could watch the water-driven wheel turning whilst they partook of refreshments.

This fine view of the gardens shows some new buildings and the facilities available to visitors.

Away from the boisterous life of the river, Cheyne Walk, with its narrow, balconied houses and modish shops, was a haven of gentility, dedicated to refined if somewhat Bohemian pursuits.

Away from the boisterous life of the river, Cheyne Walk, with its narrow, balconied houses and modish shops, was a haven of gentility, dedicated to refined if somewhat Bohemian pursuits.

The station was decommissioned by British Rail and was saved and restored by the children and teachers of the local school, who still continue to run the ticket office as part of their 'work experience