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One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.

Bargate was originally built to guard the main road into Southampton. Over the years it has been a toll-gate, prison, guildhall and museum.

A similar view again highlighting school buildings and the church. The large house on the left has been built on South Back Way with a pleasant southerly aspect and a spacious garden.

One of the finest medieval gateways in the country, Southampton's Bargate dates back to the late 12th century.

This is the same scene as photograph No L117026 taken from a little further back.

This little church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul, sits on the edge of Romney Marshes; its origins go back to the 12th century.

The Red Lion, seen on the right, is the oldest inn in Adderbury, dating back to the 16th century. Situated on the main Oxford Road, it became a coaching inn, and today it is a hotel.

We are looking back the other way from R16047, with Sparks bakery and restaurant next door to the local branch of W H Smith (left).

A fish 'jouster' or seller loads his trap with baskets packed with the latest catch. He will tour the local villages, travelling perhaps as far as Helston with his wares.

The view looks towards Morton Crescent and Alexandra Terrace. A century earlier this part of Exmouth was just a strand, backed by dunes, marsh and pasture.

The Chequers Hotel, beside which is a line of cars, is one of Newbury's most famous businesses. Though almost entire- ly rebuilt, some of the original walling remains.

The pub and shop go back hundreds of years. This is a large village with a number of neat houses. It is close to the River Wissey and the main road to London.

Taken from a position further back than 80576 (note the arches probably added in the 19th century that have since been removed).

The pub is called the Old Bush Inn. This is an old name for a pub; it dates back to times when the brewer would hang a bit of a bush over the front door to advertise that a new brew was ready.

There had been a church dedicated to St Werburgh, daughter of the King of Mercia, at Warburton before the Normans.

Its inn sits about a mile away looking out over the River Severn with its back to the road - in fact, it was originally built to serve boatmen travelling along the river, but no-one comes that way now.

A close-up showing the foundations of the original Chapter House dating back to the early 18th century.

The building with the jettied gables to the left dates back to the 17th century, on the face of it one of the oldest buildings in St Ives, although earlier buildings survive behind more modern facades.

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

Back in the Market Place, the clock tower is an architecturally undistinguished brick structure with a stone plaque telling us that its foundation stone was laid on 26 January 1899.

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

Corporation Street was the last major roadway development in the city centre made by the corporation.

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia. The building is owned and maintained by a charitable trust.

Although originally captioned 'Holker Hall', this photograph actually shows one of the houses on the Holker Hall estate, which has been in the hands of the Cavendish family for over 200 years and is