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of what had become the longest reign on record, Victoria Grove encompassed the social and architectural extremes of the era, ranging from the exuberant St Hilda`s School (left) to staid town

Opposite, the Port Bredy Guest House takes its name from that used for the town in the Wessex novels of Thomas Hardy. Victoria Grove branches off between the trees (right).

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.

Boats travelling down the Thames estuary from London were met by stagecoaches here, and their passengers were transported onward by road to Dover.

This is limestone country: the soft rock, assisted by the streams, forms magical shapes and contours as the water tumbles down.

Lumley Avenue, with its chestnut trees and wide verges and roadway, is typical of the streets comprising the original grid layout of the Earl of Scarbrough's 1870s town plan.

Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

Ladies wishing to bathe would enter the machines from the landward side and horses would haul the contraptions down into the water.

Church Street leads down to St. Mary-le-Gill Church.

Rip tides up and down the strait made the ferry a dangerous option, and earned the Menai the nickname 'the British Bosphorus'.

The narrow ancient streets of Harlech, a town that sprang up to serve the stronghold, have changed little over the years, as is shown by this picture of the High Street.

Its survival is due to Sir Gilbert Scott's putting his foot down most firmly. When a complete rebuild was proposed, he threatened to withdraw if the spire was removed.

The sign is in the shop window with the blind drawn down, and can be deciphered when the photograph is considerably enlarged.

Positioned cosily under the downs, and with its cluster of thatched and slate-roofed cottages around it, the Perpendicular tower of St Lawrence's Church rises above the surrounding gravestones.

Just beyond, down the road, is J J Bacon's Stores. The village has a wealth of old houses, including a row of Kentish weatherboard cottages flanking the side of the parish church.

A secluded village in the middle of the Downs near the Hampshire border, south of Harting. There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high.

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs. St Leonard's church was built in 1895.

The pedestrian route to Shugborough still passes down the lane, beneath the railway bridge of 1848, over the canal and across Essex Bridge.

The smaller bridge to the right crosses the old boat slide, a weir bypass for rowing boats, an exciting and brief run down rollers from the upper river to the lower, and once common on the River Thames

The arcades are of Lundy granite; brought down from the top of Lundy island, the stone underwent a fifteen mile passage by sea before the masons could use it.

Hall Walk on the Bodinnick side provides a fine view down the harbour to the open sea, with the town on the right.

Further up the road is the Victorian parish church, which replaced one of 1791 which itself replaced the medieval one, apparently burned down in the Civil War.

Trams first trundled down Cheltenham's streets on 22 August 1901. By the end of the 1920s they had been rendered redundant by the quicker, go-anywhere buses, and the trams were withdrawn in 1930.