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Street Scene c1955 Queen Victoria first stayed on the Isle of Wight at Norris Castle, during the reign of her uncle William IV.

The abbey, in the Middle Ages the richest in Lincolnshire, was built on the site of the 7th-century St Guthlac's timber hermitage.

The inn on the banks of the river was two cottages and a shop in 1840. In 1851 it became an inn owned by the brewer Henry Prior.

This part of Sunderland developed into the commercial and civic heart of the town following the opening of Fawcett Street Station by the North Eastern Railway.

Although it is 10 miles from the sea on what is now an artificial River Nene, Wisbech maintains its long tradition as a sea port.

This small hamlet enjoys a hundred or so metres of beach enclosed by a rocky cove in an idyllic setting.

We can just see the old cottage of photograph 77066 again in its new location, on the left and partially concealed by the leafy tree.

This track could be part of the route along which came supplies of wool for Dolphinholme Mill.

Palace Green is a large, well-tended area between the castle and the cathedral, enclosed on both sides by a range of historic buildings dating from the 18th century.

Hutton John was anciently part of the Baronry of Greystoke, and was held by the Hutton family.

We are looking towards the corner of Island Road, with Brook and Williams's printers and bookbinder's shop and works on the right; this block of shops later became one of the first department stores in

The three sides of the sundial, which was erected in 1689, represent the notable features of Trelleck.

The Crown and Thistle Hotel, first mentioned in 1605, was a coaching inn, and one of the town's best known ones.

Monton had been a separate village until the incorporation of Eccles, when it was taken under the new council's wing. Monton Green is also the name of the road in our photograph.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

These eye-catching houses are situated on the bend of the road and opposite All Saints` church.

A unit of the Majestic class of nine battleships completed between 1895 and 1898 at a cost of approximately £1 million each.

Eastley was a tithing in the large parish of South Stoneham, which was where births, marriages and deaths had to be registered.

This view was taken from almost the identical position to the 1897 photograph, and it is surprising to see how many of the previous century's buildings continued to exist with the addition of modern façades

Midway between the ancient sites of two Norman motte and bailey castles at the extreme ends of the village, Holy Trinity Church is the topographical as well as the spiritual centre of Ascott; old

The focal point of Forty Hill in the 16th century was the great house of Elsynge, which lay between the site of Forty Hall and the Turkey Brook.

Towards the end of the 20th century, the population of Droitwich increased when the town took some of the overspill from Birmingham.

Visible evidence of medieval Sultan is sparse, but remnants of the castle motte survive to the west of the parish church.

At the east end of the Parade, by the last slipway, is the Island Sailing Club (left), which was founded in 1889, and is amongst the largest in the world.