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The monument of 1903 commemorates 17 Suffolk Protestants who were burnt at Bury during the reign of Queen Mary. The ruins of the Charnel Chapel are between the two avenues.

The coming of the railway in the 19th century turned it into one of the more genteel suburbs of the city.

The war memorial in the centre of Warborough was erected in memory of those who died in World War I. The building in the centre of the photograph is the Six Bells public house.

There are many charming cottages in the vicinity of Lyndhurst, some of them probably dating back to the 13th century when the harsh forest laws were relaxed somewhat during the reign of Henry III.

The winding gear and smoke-belching chimney of the colliery dominate the end of the council houses of West End Lane, New Rossington, at a time when coal was still king in South Yorkshire.

Dating from the 14th century, the White Hart is one of the oldest surviving examples of domestic architecture in the East Midlands. It is situated in the south-east corner of the Market Place.

Mr Manship's Central Café, seen in the centre of the photograph, no doubt offered a good range of refreshments, whilst gifts could be bought at the gift shop on the right of this view.

The Midland Bank occupies the site of Scales' boot and shoe shop and Spencer & Co's grand frontage has fallen victim to an infestation of 'Magnet Ales' signs on behalf of the Wheat Sheaf.

The western arm of Central Circus and the thin neo-Georgian buildings are not architecturally distinguished.

There is the modern settlement by the Ilford Works, two communities either side of the Mobberley Brook, and a cluster of houses by the Bird in Hand.

The Derby winner has always been celebrated by sporting artists, but it was not until Victorian times that race-goers themselves caught the imagination of the art world.

Pronounced 'clibbery', Cleobury Mortimer is famous for the crooked spire of its church.

The Moat Garden is the private garden of the Governor of the Castle. It is very well maintained and has been created in what remains of the original dry moat that surrounded the Round Tower.

Ann of Cleves House is possibly the most impressive of Ditchling's 16th- and 17th-century buildings.

The war memorial lists the names of members of the armed forces who lost their lives, especially in the First World War. On the far side of the green, the duck pond is a haven for wildlife.

One of Lamorna's most famous residents was the painter Samuel John Birch, who moved there in 1892 and stayed for the rest of his life.

Swans are afloat on the river on a sunny day.

Low Row is one of several pretty villages which mark the length of Swaledale, many people's favourite among the Yorkshire Dales, with its spectacular scenery and long history of lead mining.

One of the attractions of England's villages is how each one seems to play a part in the greater history of these islands.

In the fishing era, every household had at least one cat, for the very practical purpose of keeping the net cellars free of mice. Natural fibre nets of that time were damaged by mice nibbling at them.

This pub has a date of 1635 in sheep's knucklebones set in the floor of the bar.

The tower contains a grand carillon of forty-seven bells. Built to remember the fallen of the Great War, it is a fitting tribute, for one of Britain's two bell foundries is in the town.

Cow Lane has changed in recent years, with infill building visible to the left of the house in the centre of this picture.

On the left-hand edge of photograph H252061 (page left) we see the shop George Hilton & Sons, which was built in 1932 and designed by Harold Turner (a local architect whom we will meet elsewhere