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The tapering village green leads up to St Peter's Church. The 15th-century tower with flushwork battlements and pinnacles had a short spire until 1845.

By the 1950s, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity and one of the most prosperous towns in England, as this view of the town centre shows.

The tower of the medieval St Peter's Church, seen here on the left, dominates much of Dorchester's High Street.

What a tranquil sight greeted the miller every morning a hundred years ago. The dominant feature is the Norman St Peter's Church presiding over this view.

On the extreme left is D H Corneby, baker and confectioner. Further on is T C Baker, watch and clock repairer.

At this time, all but the uppermost section of the east window had clear glass. Stained glass was introduced later in 1922.

This is a fine view of a pastoral hillside. The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

The building is still there today; it is now a Grant Maintained school. The tower of St Peter's Roman Catholic Cathedral can be seen in the background.

Now in effect a suburb of Taunton, the village is still distinctly a village architecturally, with its 1586 Elizabethan manor house, recently freshly yellow ochre colourwashed.

St Peter's Church is now redundant. The statue of Thomas Gainsborough, the artist, was erected in front of the tower in 1913.

Smiddy Hill in Pickering, a bustling little market town west of Scarborough on the edge of the moors, probably takes its name from the site of a former blacksmith's shop in the area.

The Dog & Partridge sign stands in the middle of the green; the pub is still trading, and it is the Official Monster Raving Loony Party's headquarters. Yateley is near the Berkshire border.

Built in 1848 with funds raised almost entirely from public subscriptions, St Peter's was consecrated in July 1849 by the Bishop of Chester, Dr Graham.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches built with the local limestone. It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border.

This village lies around a green, and here the church of St Peter and St Paul can be found. At the first house on the right, a window beside the front door has been bricked up.

The 11th-century church of St Peter and St Paul is heavily restored. Cakeham Manor House is a medieval palace of the Bishop of Chichester.

The church of St Peter, with its 14th-century tower made entirely of wood and supported inside by a framework of huge oak timbers, also has a 13th-century chancel and a south aisle added a hundred years

The cars appearing here in St Peter's Square, where a roundabout now guides traffic, were to be followed by many more as car ownership increased from the 1950s.

This is another of the Lincolnshire churches built with the local limestone. It overlooks the Trent and Witham valley towards the Nottinghamshire border.

St Peter's School stands at the top of School Hill. During May 1941, Heswall was bombed, the school lost three classrooms and the headmaster's daughter and her fiancé were killed.

Over thirty years and a world war separate photographs B51061 and 70428. Traffic is light enough to be controlled by a 'bobby' in 1921; by 1955 traffic lights and pedestrian crossings are required.

At the top of Church Hill we find this Swedish-style church, built in 1902 at a cost of £2678.

Taken from the west edge of St Peter's Green, this view looks north up the long avenue towards Bedford Park. This is an early view, with the lime trees little over ten years old.

The Church and War Memorial c1955 Dedicated to St Peter & St Paul, the church here is first mentioned in 1310, though there was almost certainly a place of worship on the site in late Saxon times