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One of the highlights of shopping along Briggate was the glass-roofed arcades, such as the Queen's and the County.

In 1932, the local County High School left the Barton Peveril farmhouse (which gave it its name), and shortly afterwards this open air swimming pool was built in the grounds.

Trees still line the road; at the end of it stands the town's ironstone Holy Trinity Church, the longest in the county.

(A hundred was an administrative unit within a county, and was named after its central meeting place, in this case Willaston).

Here we see modern post-war housing development in what was known as West Hartlepool until the two Hartlepools merged to form the County Borough of Hartlepool in 1967.

Moving north, deeper into the Vale of Taunton Deane, we reach the cob or earth wall country, where whitewashed rendered cottages with thatched roofs become common.

On the right is that well-known hotel, the Royal County, created in the 19th century out of former town houses belonging to the Ratcliffe and Bowes families.

They were among eighty such enterprises in the county, and much of their product was utilised by the small local breweries, as well as being despatched to London.

Probably built on the site of a Saxon predecessor, it displays some of the best 12th-century Norman carving in the county. Gnosall has a stone lock-up that was used for miscreants and drunks.

Caernarvon is the capital of the county, and in the late 1890s held assizes and sessions, and was the militia headquarters.

Horncastle is one of the county's most ancient towns.

In 1909 it was rebuilt by the County Council. The shop in the picture is now a house called the Store House.

The sign on the chimney breast reveals that the Compasses was once owned by the Surrey Public House Trust - a firm that owned a number of hostelries and hotels in the county.

Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, is situated where the limestone ridge is cut through by the River Witham.

Chapter Three is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

Veryan, probably named after a saint with the improbable name of Symphorian, is one of the county's most beautiful villages, noted for its five round houses, built that way so that the devil could not

along Queen Street which dated from the earlier decades of the 19th century, including the Mechanics’ Institute and Athenaeum (1835); the Dispensary with its Doric demi-columns (1826); and the County

At the left is the corner of John Carr of York’s Georgian County Gaol of 1787: no attempt here to match the castle’s Gothic architecture.

Something of its former village quality remains, and it is still bordered by open countryside - something that not many towns in this county can claim.

Council offices and a civic suite were built alongside it after Solihull became a county borough in 1964.

Roughly east of Navenby, where the limestone descends to the flat east of the county, Metheringham is a large village with a mix of stone and brick older houses interspersed with Victorian and later development

One section is devoted to lacemaking in the county and another to Luton's own traditional industry - hat making.

Just before this picture was taken, the County Licensing Committee of Quarter Sessions decided that it, along with four others in Alton, would be closed.

Close to the village of Nettleden is one of the most beautiful places in the county.