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Harriet Windsor-Clive, the Countess of Plymouth, took an interest in the layout of Penarth, owning much of the land in the locality.

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

There is very much a Victorian suburban feel here, apart from the 1950s concrete swan-necked lamp-post.

This view looks towards the 1871 cast iron Trent Bridge from the Victoria Embankment, a view much changed today, with the awful West Bridgford Hotel of 1962 (now Rushcliffe Civic Centre) replacing

Much has changed since 1965. Traffic control measures mean that there is almost no legal parking in the area.

This is now the European School, and not much softened with age.

This style of building, with no chancel arch and a continuous roof, was common in large churches of this period.

Court sittings permitting, we can tour the castle today and see much of this fascinating place, including the condemned cell, and an early gallows.

It is obviously more restrained than the Victor Immanuel monument in Rome, but to some tastes not by much of a margin.

On the street, a new generation had not yet been born in the Victorian shot, but otherwise not much has changed.

When the Hall was eventually demolished in 1925, much of the stone was reused to build smaller properties in the village.

Actually, several more things have disappeared, including the signpost, which has been replaced by much smaller signs that are partially covered by the hedge.

Without doubt, this is one of the loveliest views in Guisborough, beloved of many Gisborians, and not least the author; the juxtaposition of the priory arch and the parish church is remarkable, with

The inner arch contains 40 beak heads, possibly suggesting the 40 days and nights of Christ's wilderness fast.

Much of the village was built from the stone of the old abbey. North York Moors

The County Magistrates' Court ran on simple and firm sets of rules, relying on moral and ethical principles as much as on legislature.

The men and boys outside the GPO are very much aware that a photographer is at work. On the right, one man wearing a cloth cap and another a bowler are standing side by side.

This view today is much the same as pictured here. The gateway in the stone wall (centre left) is now a garage door.

This has obviously not caused too much of a stir in sleepy Bedwas.

Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.

The church is built of a grey sandstone; the scraping of the interior has left it somewhat dull, but relieved by the royal arms dated 1684 above the chancel arch.

The canal also served a second purpose as a defensive dyke, though it is hard to see it as much of an obstacle to an army that would have already crossed the Channel!

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

There was a chapel and even a 'practice school' for the intended 92 students (the numbers later much increased).