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Leylandii trees line the nearside of the plot, but the view down the road remains very pastoral.

Two East Kent coaches are bringing visitors to the Spa Hotel, once the home of Major Martin Yorke.

The college was in a lovely setting, and was within walking distance of the river, where the boys were taken for swimming lessons. This view now would include houses on the field and the school area.

St Clement's Church is a plain little building on the western edge of the town. It was built after the 16th-century flood.

The Guildhall (left) with its tower was built in 1881, and the Town Hall (right) was added in 1887 in commemoration of Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.

The long arm of the Medina estuary provided good shelter for seaplanes and was used for this purpose from the First World War onwards.

Once used as the site of Bury Fair, even by 1955 it had been relegated to a car park. The Angel Hotel which gave its name to the square was immortalised by Charles Dickens in 'The Pickwick Papers'.

One local resident had a cynical sense of humour.

At this time nearly 430,000 people were crammed into central Glasgow, and the city's tenement blocks were a breeding ground for all manner of contagious diseases.

Four years earlier, an Aldeburgh lifeboat suffered its worst disaster, capsizing with the loss of seven lives.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

Crowds gather on the steps of Gilbert Scott's imposing Gothic-inspired memorial to the Queen's beloved husband, Albert.

The designs of these bosses include the Tinners' Rabbits - three rabbits sharing only three ears.

This scene is recognisable today only by the presence of the parish church in the distance.

The rendered buildings have Georgian sash windows, but they conceal the medieval timber-framed structures of houses built immedi- ately outside the wall and its gateway.

This is a tranquil sight on a sunny day, with the mill reflected in the peaceful water and myriads of buttercups flowering in the grass.

The war memorial stands at the central crossroads of Ormesby St Margaret. The fencing behind has now been removed, and an open, grassy area gives the village a heart.

The 1921 edition of the Dunlop book recommended three St Anne's hotels as being suitable for those on motoring holidays.

It was in 1878 that the Association for Promoting the Higher Education of Women proposed to found a hall in Oxford for women students.

Another view of the delightful Hazelgrove area with its charming castellated grotto. This little folly was built as a shelter where one could rest and look out onto the well-laid-out flowerbeds.

The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.

Whaling ships once departed from here to sail to the Arctic in search of a catch.

This bridge over the River Usk is situated near the site of the old castle.

It was originally built for Daniel Burton, a bleacher of Rhodes; it passed to Salis Schwabe, who bought the bleach works and built the famous Rhodes Chimney.