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The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Public transport came early to Bournemouth, making the town a superb central location for visitors wishing to explore the locality.

When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

Legend has it that Mediterranean traders came here to Ictis (as the place was called then) to trade for tin.

Punting became very much a ladies' pastime, and the fame of the 'English Punt Girl' spread far and wide. In 1908 there was even an article describing her in the Travel magazine of New York.

Its claim to fame is the Barn Stone - a huge granite boulder swept down from Scotland during the last Ice Age.

Thomas became the Whig MP for Calne, Leeds, but it was his masterpiece - 'A History of England', that brought him fame.

The Havering manor was a crown manor from the time of Harold, of Hastings fame, until 1828.

The town of Little Walsingham grew up to serve the many thousands of pilgrims that came to the priory; it has more early 17th-century houses than any other town in Norfolk.

The monument was erected to commemorate the Crimean War; as with most of such things, it came complete with captured Russian cannon.

Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

The village of Eastham is about one mile inland from the River Mersey, but one of its claims to fame is that it has the largest canal locks in the country - these give entry to the Manchester Ship Canal

The George Hotel, here on the right, offered popular accommodation to Victorian visitors and those who came this way throughout the 20th century.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Shortly after it was dedicated in 1927, the Prince of Wales (the future Duke of Windsor) came from Bournemouth to lay a wreath in the presence of schoolchildren.

Its steep banks and overhanging trees would have provided protection for travellers when the winter storms came.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Then the railways came, and brought humbler people to the resort as well.

Many shoppers came to the town every week from distant places to do their weekly shopping.

This site has been in constant habitation since earliest days, and there was a moated village here before the Romans came. In Tudor times, the castle became the home of the Wyatt family.

This Thames-side town was once famed for its abbey, now almost entirely vanished; its stone was used for the building of Hampton Court.

Charles Lamb, the essayist, came to live in the country town of Enfield two centuries ago.

It could also have been so quiet because Belfast residents had so much choice when the time came for the essential walk.

Henry VIII came here with Anne Boleyn.