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There was once a Holy Thorn tree in Orcop that was said to have grown from a cutting from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. Unfortunately, it was blown down in a gale in 1980.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

It was the home of the Guild of St Anne of Knowle (a religious and charitable foundation), but in later years it served many other purposes.

Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners

The older part is naturally more interesting, with its quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Paignton pier, one of the oldest in Britain, strides 800 feet out to sea; we see it here in all its Victorian finery.

The town rose swiftly to the challenge of the new tourism in the Victorian era. Piers were constructed and seaside attractions of all kinds soon sprang up.

This crowded scene shows the stalls sited on Parliament Street in St Sampson's Square. The market was moved to nearby Newgate in 1955.

The frieze that tops the Corinthian portico proclaims in Latin that the Exchange was founded in the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, and restored in the seventh of Queen Victoria.

The Angel Hotel on the left was one of three to cater for the motorist; the others were the George and Dragon and the Brunswick.

New Canal street commemorates one of the many open waterways which ran through the medieval streets until the 19th century.

With the towers of the Minster in the background, this street lined with red brick and white-rendered Georgian cottages has a pleasing elegance and symmetry.

After Henry VIII's dissolu- tion of the monasteries in 1542, the Priory Chapel became St Mary's Parish Church.

This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.

There were 30 fishing boats here in the middle of the 19th century, but by the end of the First World War they were nearly all gone.

This view shows Trent Bridge with the Ossington on the left, the castle on the right and the spire of St Mary Magdalen in the background. One interesting fact about St Mary's is that the 252?

The Cathedral 1911 The west door of Winchester Cathedral - one of the city’s most famous views. Inside is the stunning 12th-century black marble font from Tournai in Belgium.

The early neighbourhoods were characterised by winding streets and plenty of open space. Some of the plans won awards.

Apart from the lack of traffic, remarkably little has changed since this photograph was taken.

The River Brett curves around the farmhouse, now at the blocked end of the village street nearest to Monks Eleigh.

The population of six thousand at the beginning of the 20th century had all the variety of shops necessary for a thriving independent community.

Traffic comes to a standstill for this large flock of sheep being driven along the main road.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.