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The chalets were spartan, but there was the certainty of meeting new friends, as well as a plethora of free activities. A good time was assured for all.

In 1886 the resident cavalry regiment was the 3rd Hussars, some of whom are seen here at sabre practice.

This hotel was originally known as the Rose and Crown, but changed its name in 1840 after the Dowager Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, convalesced here while touring in the north of England.

The nearest this long, straggling village has to a market square is a broadening of the Norwich to North Walsham road, beside which the War Memorial stands under chestnut trees.

A small brass recalls that in 1899 five sons of the village carved the splendid pulpit 'for the love of the church'.

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.

The old 'charas' now graced by the name of coaches brought many day trippers to our old port.

This photograph hardly does justice to the most magnificent of all British hillforts. Sir Mortimer Wheeler excavated it between 1934-38.

Beyond the nave and the crossing is the medieval choir and sanctuary, the oldest part of the church, dating from the 12th to the 14th century. It is crowned by an 18th-century vaulted ceiling.

This quaint old house sits on a corner in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

On 15 August 1819, Henry Hunt, a leading advocate for Parliamentary reform, stopped here on his way to address a meeting in Manchester.

Downstream, past Weybridge, the Desborough Cut of 1935 by-passes a winding loop, to reach Walton-on-Thames.

The refined and somewhat austere rusticated three-arch bridge of 1829-32 by John Rennie, the architect of old Waterloo Bridge, has been marred by a widening in 1958 in which footways were cantilevered

This was just one lock in the long climb from the west edge of London up the Chilterns: 25 miles and 42 locks on the Grand Junction Canal (later to become part of the Grand Union), the original main transport

Here we have a second view of the loaded boats we saw in photograph L122053. Now, the name of the butty can be distinguished: 'Marjorie'.

This shows the fine Palladian Guildhall of 1825 with its Regency cupola and clock. The cupola was removed in 1904 as the roof was sagging.

The overhanging lucam was used to hoist sacks of grain from a cart directly up into the bin floor. A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway.

The Church of All Saints was built in 1843. In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.

It is unfortunate that today four of the seven upper-storey bay windows have now been replaced - without their bays - and some of the properties are boarded up.

The medieval fair was held at the upper end of the High Street (Townhead), but as the town began to spread southward, the fair moved to the north bank of the Clyde, near the Stockwell.

The home of George Bernard Shaw has remained unchanged since his death: his hat still hangs in the hall, whilst his typewriter stands on his study desk where he wrote 'Pygmalion', 'Back to Methuselah'

The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city’s wool and lead exports.

This tiny street of small shops offers a glimpse of the city's gleaming white castle, which rises from a great mound raised in prehistoric times.

At Wroxham, the capital of the Broads, there is a full mile of shimmering open water, which is thronged with pleasure craft in the summer months.