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The cattle trough on the far side of the Square in 1965 was about to vacate its position to one outside the offices slightly behind the telephone kiosk, where it has become a feature of 'Petersfield

The High Street, which forms part of the Roman Watling Street, has been devastated by road widening in the 1930s.

This similar view of the village gives a closer impression of the mission house and the row of managers' houses (right).

As part of providing civic local facilities, the council erected a large open- air swimming pool in the town centre in the 1930s on the site of Richmond House, between King Street and the river

The charters of Henry VIII allowed a fair to be held at the feast of Corpus Christi.

The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark

Barrow-in-Furness sprang from a tiny hamlet in the 19th century to become the world's largest producer of iron and steel, and a major force in the world of shipbuilding.

Six miles south of Craster, the seaside resort of Alnmouth was once the port for Alnwick.

The antics of our cameraman has attracted the attention of a number of boys gathered round the white marble angel that stands in front of the gates to Hillside Gardens.

Port Talbot is an industrial town in the county of Glamorgan.

One of the more interesting events in the history of this famous bird sanctuary occurred after the Battle of Killicrankie in July 1689.

By the end of the Victorian period, band concerts were a popular form of entertainment at most resorts.

This is a close-up of the statue of St Hubert on the post office.

Now in the care of the National Trust, Ditchling Beacon was one of a chain of fires lit to warn of the Spanish Armada in 1588. Much earlier than that it was a hill fort.

A herd of Shorthorn cattle is driven down the main street of West Witton, which stands at the eastern entrance to Wensleydale.

The recent history of the ancient village of East Keswick is inextricably linked with the fortunes of the nearby 'big house' of Harewood.

The Abbey of St Benet-at-Holm was founded in 1020 AD by King Canute.

Hoveton is one of the centres of Broadland, and is crowded in the summer months.

The east end of Brimington's 19th-century parish church is just visible behind the trees in this view of the centre of the village, between Chesterfield and Staveley.

Beoley predates Redditch, but it remains a small village on the northern edge of the present New Town.

Edward I granted Berkhamsted to his second queen, Margaret of France. On her death, Isabella, queen of Edward II, succeeded to the Manor.

This was the first of the open spaces provided for the workers of Wakefield at the end of the 19th century.

Located to the rear of the Hypostyle Hall towards the sanctuary, this fallen obelisk (1896, above) is one of a pair originally erected by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut – she put up four obelisks in

Standing above the valley of the River Wolf, the Church of St Nicholas is first recorded in 1288 when a Parochial Quota of £13 was paid to the Deanery of Tavistock.