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Bristol developed to become a major centre for the importation of timber for use throughout the west of England.

On the left of the picture is the war memorial. Note the man and child walking away from the camera in the centre of the photograph.

The name is probably a corruption of 'Keepers' Walk'. The long avenue of elms ran to Roundway Estate. Unfortunately, this area is now threatened by developers.

In various travel guides, Bourton is billed as either 'the Queen of the Cotswolds', 'the jewel in the Cotswolds' crown', or 'the Venice of the Cotswolds'.

The presence of the Isle of Wight has given the waters around Lymington unusual double tides - a boon to yachtsmen in and around the little estuary.

It closed in 1990, and for a short while was an antiques shop which only opened on Friday afternoons. The property is now a private residence.

The castle (right) dominates the centre of this large market town at the entrance to Swaledale.

The characteristic mid-Victorian, family-orientated, open-air seaside culture, which offered a satisfaction of its own, and the town's secure, peaceful ambience is captured in this view of the beach.

The chancel screen was dedicated on 10 October 1924, and was given by W Favill Tuke in memory of his wife. It was made of best English oak, and is 25 feet 3 inches high and 23 feet 3 inches wide.

The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St George in London Road, originally built in 1901, suffered major damage in the war - it was virtually demolished by a landmine.

Adeyfield, on 20 July 1952, the Adeyfield Neighbourhood Association organised a Jubilee Fair on 20 July 2002, on Reith Field.

Watling Street, three miles south-west of Gravesend. It gained its name from a river passage that once reached it from the Thames at Northfleet.

St Paul's Square, also known as Market Place, is bounded on the west by the churchyard of St Paul.

The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.

Stone from the same quarry was used in the construction of the seafront at Scarborough.

The High Street was laid out in 1826 as New Road, but development off the hill was slow.

The Park was formally opened on 1 July 1937. It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges.

This view looking towards town captures well the flavour of interwar development along the Tring Road itself.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby. Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

Perhaps the chapel was built to house the relics of St Edward the Martyr, which were moved there from Shaftesbury.

As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Horse-drawn carts stopped to collect sacks of flour to transport to Cookson's bakery and other places. Part of this mill's old machinery was transferred to the windmill at Wrea Green.

This timber-framed Tudor cottage originally occupied a site in Malden Road (now the Broadway) closer to the main crossroads, but it stood in the way of the eventual widening of the street.