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Before the days of motorways and bypasses, Honiton was the gateway to Devon for travellers coming from the south and east of England, who passed along this long straight road.

This photograph shows the southern portal entrance with the Devil's Chair to the left; in the distance (right) are two stones left standing of the southern inner circle.

These cottages are typical of this lovely Lakeland village, which clusters around its 16th-century church.

The chalets were spartan, but there was the certainty of meeting new friends as well as a plethora of free activities. A good time was assured for all.

The timber-framed Tudor House, one of the city's finest buildings, dates back to about 1500, and has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

We are looking back towards the Parade and Marine Terrace from the Harbour Pier, with fishing boats and pleasure craft afloat on the rippling water.

Flat-capped fishermen enjoy a chat and a view of the Lower Harbour by the swing bridge (right) in the ancient port of Whitby, situated where the River Esk runs into the North Sea.

The access to Butter Row Lane has now been improved by the demolition of the rather odd-shaped building on the right. The shop opposite it, then the post office, has also gone.

The photograph is a valuable record of the building before the great fire of 1907. The castellated parapets, the very fine windows and the chimneys are in the Tudor Gothic style.

The Thames is quite wide at this point, and forms two separate streams as it flows on either side of Nags Head Island. The Nags Head Inn is the building we can see here at the end of the bridge.

The fencing on either side of the river has now been painted white. In the distance, the telegraph pole and phone box have been removed.

This road is the main shopping street in Fleet, and it contains a mixture of architecture from Victorian to modern.

This post mill is one of Suffolk's best-known tourist attractions. The brick round house and wooden mill date from 1796, with Victorian alterations.

Beside the memorial to the dead of two world wars is a statue to another of Colne's brave sons, Wallace Hartley.

An example of immediately post-war council housing, this street is now leafy and well-established, and largely in private ownership.

St Katherine's Chapel was part of the complex which formed Warrington Teachers' Training College.

Two identical versions of the fountain still survive in a Glasgow park and Pretoria city zoo in South Africa!

On the left is a fountain commemorating Queen Victoria, and on the right is a monument to Warrington soldiers of the South Lancashire Regiment killed in the Boer War.

Suffolk had a new landmark with the building of Sizewell A. It was later decided to build a second Sizewell B and a third Sizewell C.

The red brick Shire Hall of c1600 once had an open ground floor – it was filled in during the 19th century. The van (right) belongs to Banyard's the butcher's, whose shop was in nearby Church Street.

New Quay became an important ship-building settlement from the late 18th century (244 ships were built here between 1779 and 1882), and since it was well protected from south-westerly gales, it was one of

Rose Cottage (left), a handsome Gothick Revival villa on the corner of Queens Road and Quaker Lane, was extended and converted into the Victoria Cottage Hospital in 1899.

It is the profusion of trees that makes the New Forest a splendid place to visit, particularly in the spring when the leaves are fresh and green, or in the autumn when the trees present foliage of the

A pram and its occupant wait outside the tobacconists, with its impressive display of advertising signs, in this line of quaint overhung shops.