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This street, now pedestrianised, was a busy part of the A30 trunk road. It was widened a century ago to cope with the increasing traffic.

The descent from Barkway, the second highest point in Hertfordshire, down to Royston, one of the lowest places in the county, was a nightmare for horse-drawn traffic and cyclists.

This gateway entrance to the City at the west end of Fleet Street was designed by Christopher Wren. The figures in the niches are James I and Charles I.

The estate vilage of Arlington with the old post office - now Mill Cottages - lies alongside the Lynton to Barnstaple road.

We are looking east along Whitby Road, with Vale Road meeting it on the opposite side. The wall and trees on the left have now gone, and the Sportsman's pub now stands here.

This church is the largest church on the Gower. Originally founded in the 6th century by St Cenydd, the priory was ransacked by Viking invasions in the 10th century.

The origin of its unusual name is obscure.

Not far from Lee-on-the-Solent, this is a wonderful spot for sailing. Is the man on the right about to set sail?

Replacing a medieval church that lay beyond the walled town's north gate, now commemorated by the street's name of Northgate Street, this church by Manners was started in 1835 in an early inaccurate Gothic

The 1st Eastern General Hospital was set up in Nevile's Court in Trinity College at the beginning of World War 1, with beds placed around the cloisters.

The coffee merchant E W Coleman's van is parked outside his shop (centre); beside its window is an LNER train timetable - Station Road is off to the left.

Abbot Huby's magnificent north tower at Fountains Abbey, in the valley of the River Skell near Ripon, is a Yorkshire landmark virtually unchanged since the 12th century when it was built.

The Stockton and Darlington Railway Company built the Zetland Hotel as a flagship project, hoping to attract other developers to the town as the concept of a new spa resort was being pursued.

De Vere House, on the right, which was largely dismantled and rebuilt in the 1920s, has gables, jetties, oriel windows and brick nogging.

On the right is the 1894 School of Industrial Art, built in Arts and Crafts style, with an inscription by William Tooke.

Off to the left is the village and the pond, famous for its ducks. One of the benches records that 18 lime trees were planted in memory of the men who died in the First World War.

On the right is a half-timbered building that houses a bank.

Note the unfenced playground equipment, and the little box on old pram wheels that so many children made, so typical of the time.

In front of Broadgate's post-war development is a statue of Lady Godiva, still notorious for nudity after 1,000 years.

Sutton Park is surrounded on all sides by suburbia. Sutton Coldfield itself is to the east, while Streetly borders the park to the north-west.

The two men in the rowing boat on the left-hand side prepare their craft for leaving the quay.

Although cumbersome to handle, a paddle tug still manages to turn her charge professionally in the centre fairway of the River Arun, whilst a stiff breeze catches smoke from the funnel and

The gently lapping waves, resulting from low swell, indicate clearly how solid granite walls deflect the force of even a slight sea.

A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with