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This view shows the busy heart of Tavistock looking towards the oddly named St Eustachius's Church. The buildings we can see are the same, but their usage has changed.

Reading developed further south on higher land along the banks of the River Kennet, well away from the then marshy meads bordering the River Thames.

The curious onion-domed extension to the Town Hall, between it and the church has long been demolished, but it serves to point up the quality of Alfred Waterhouse's 1875 Town Hall.

The abbey was built on the high ground north of the River Kennet, which in this view is behind the photographer. We are looking north-east into the cloister east walk past the refectory end wall.

Situated in the Dutch Quarter, where Flemings settled, Stockwell Street still has some good medieval houses.The gabled Stockwell Arms seen opposite still exists—in 1866 the bellringers of St Peter's

Look at the depressing differences in the first building on the left, which has gained a coat of cement render and lost its original windows.

This is part of the Tivoli Centre on Coventry Road. Erected in the 1960s, it neatly sums up the building trends of the time.

The Maxim Flying Machine is operating, and several of its gondolas can be seen whizzing round and round. Other amusements in the picture are the River Caves, a helter-skelter, and the roller-coaster.

This later view of the pond is worth comparing to the earlier photograph of the same scene.

Newport's importance as a mercantile centre is shown here in this photograph of vessels loading and unloading on the banks of the Medina.

The sign against the side of the shop, above the window and entrance, reads 'R.E. Seigh - Grocer and Provision Dealer. Shipping Supplied'.

A great fire destroyed much of the town in 1708, with the result that Holt is principally Georgian in appearance.

Traditionally the gathering place for the Royal family in the New Year, it was originally bought by Queen Victoria as a twenty-first birthday gift for Edward when he was Prince of Wales.

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Today, it would be difficult to stand for long in the middle of this road junction at the bottom of town; here West End meets Fore Street and Penryn Street (right).

The thatched mill house is deep in the valley about half a mile inland from the beach at Duckpool, and there is just a glimpse of the coast in this view.

On the edge of Bodmin Moor, near Liskeard, are several important archaeological sites with Celtic remains. This is St Cleer's Holy Well in the village named after him.

In 1746 Prince Charles Edward Stuart fought at the battle of Culloden Moor. Following the battle, 300 clansmen were herded into Inverness town jail and left without food or water for two days.

The chains on posts are still here to protect rowers from the hazards of the weir.

Prettily situated among trees and fields, the church of St Mary the Virgin is small but contains many treasures, including a silver chalice dating back to Elizabethan times, a 500-year-old font and

Here we see the use of local stone for building. The Prince of Wales is a name chosen to honour many pubs, and is fitting for a Royal County.

The ruinous 70ft high 12th century keep, all that remains of Henry III's favourite palace. It was the only Royal Castle in Surrey; the motte was raised soon after the Norman Conquest.

The centre of this straggling village on the outskirts of Hitchin boasted two public houses beside the Green and across the road from the cedars and prominent yew tree in St Katherine's chuchyard.

At the turn of the century the ferry was only for foot passengers. To the right is the Haven Hotel, and one of Guglielmo Marconi's radio masts.