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The reverse view of the previous five pictures shows the mix of architectural styles which has helped to make the town centre a conservation area.

Sir Ivor and Lady Cornelia Guest, later Lord and Lady Wimborne, were supporters of the temperance movement, in furtherance of which cause they closed the Swan Inn and opened The Firs (later

As we move further away from the industrialised regions, the equable climate and fertility of the soil begin to show themselves in the lush meadows and woodland.

Loughor, the starting point for this Carmarthenshire tour, is not actually in the county; it is separated from it by the river Loughor, and is on the outskirts of Swansea.

As the town grew further away from the village and the parish church, a new Anglican place of worship was necessary.

Witton Street is now completely pedestrianised, with a number of the buildings shown here totally restyled. Bratt & Evans, on the right, still survives, although it is now just known as Bratt's.

Through the trees on the right (although almost completely hidden now) the tower of St Christopher's Church can be seen.

The origin of its unusual name is obscure.

Castle Hill was one of Axminster's earliest residential streets, though always mixed with trade. The cottages on the right have survived, although they are much altered.

There are quite a number of cars parked in the narrow street in front of Harry and Alfred Kilminsters automobile engineering works (right), which specialized in car electrical repairs.

It was a quiet village of simple fishermen's cottages until the coming of the railway in 1862.

The clock on Botley's Market Hall is still a familiar landmark in the High Street. Just this side of it can be seen the premises of Botley Garages, now a sports shop and a hairdresser's.

By 1941 planning was well under way to rebuild the shattered heart of Coventry.

The Benedictine Priory, founded in 1043, grew to become one of the wealthiest in the midlands, and the sheer bulk of its buildings must have made an imposing sight on the Coventry skyline.The complex

This is the spot were the War Office meteorological balloon 'Saladdin', with Malmesbury MP Walter Powell in its gondola, disappeared from sight on the afternoon of 10 December 1881.

In the north of the county sits Silchester. This modern clock tower is part of Silchester House, built in 1820, but the clock tower is more modern.

The van (left) is coming out of Stanhope Avenue. Woodhall Spa is really a holiday town in the middle of Lincolnshire for people dedicated to golf.

Of the shops on the right, the Midland Bank is now, of course, HSBC.

Traditionally in the ownership of wealthy occupants, the private steps leading down to the beach still belong to these houses, except those on the extreme left.

This is the south quay of the harbour. The harbour was built between 1829 and 1834 from local and imported stone.

Amroth is a former coal mining village at the southerly end of the 186 mile-long Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, stayed here in 1857.

At a time when railway engineers were convinced of the impossibility of constructing a rail link over Shap, Fleetwood was conceived in the 1830s to link trains from London with steamers to

At the time of this photograph, traffic was not excluded from this street. A delivery van stands beside the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe of Dickinson and Morris.