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The jam-packed stalls of Hitchin market reflect the higgledy-piggledy dwellings that it replaced.

The tulips bloom in beautiful profusion, and the house is reflected in the almost glassy stillness of the pond.

Joining the two courts of St John's College on either side of the River Cam is the Bridge of Sighs. It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from one of the same name in Venice.

Holidaymakers at this time could be forgiven for thinking that there was something of an army camp about the site!

The De Brus Cenotaph is the most significant surviving relic of the town's priory.

The assembled staff pose outside a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients from London set up just outside the village of Ockley.

Built south of the town, the new docks were 825 feet long by 450 feet wide and are still busy.

On the edge of the village stands the black and white half-timbered Rufford Old Hall, owned now by the National Trust, but seat of the Hesketh family for about 600 years.

The small civil airport at Lympne was developed from the wartime fighter base, prior to the enormous expansion of London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, for short cross-channel flights.

St Michael's parish church is north of the High Street, and a reminder of a pre- Rothschild era for the village, although the chancel was restored at his expense in 1877.

The tiny flint-walled church of St Mary was rebuilt c1135, and is one of the smallest in the county. It is only 60ft long, and consists of a nave and a lower chancel.

A hint of the heavily-wooded banks of the Brun can be seen on the left of this picture.

Ripon is one of England's smallest cathedral cities; in 1836 it became the centre of a new bishopric.

That was an age of great prosperity, thanks to the flourishing wool trade, and there is little sign of such wealth and population in the small hamlet of today.

The churchwarden awaits the arrival of the owners of the abbey (who at this date would have been the Stricklands), ready to escort them up to their private gallery in the church; the gallery

In the years immediately prior to the Great War, a number of British car manufacturers got round the problem of the poor state of most of the country’s roads by offering ‘colonial’ versions of

At the top of Greenway Road, looking back towards the heart of old Runcorn is the war memorial.

There was a church in Holt by 1086, the year of the Domesday Book.

The somewhat interestingly named hamlet of Dirt Pot lies just one mile north of Allenheads.

We are on the Eastbourne main road, south of Uckfield.

Worth village stands in the Forest of Worth, east of Crawley, and was a place of pilgrimage. The fine Anglo-Saxon church of St Nicholas was a principal church in pre-Conquest times.

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.