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The Wellington Monument 1891 One of the town's most famous landmarks is Matthew Wyatt's magnificent statue of Wellington on horseback.

Band performances were held mostly at the Colonnade after it was opened in 1911.

At the time of this photograph the Convent's first Mother Superior, Sister Alice (Crocker), was still in charge; she died in 1902 aged 72 and her replacement was Sister Erminild, a daughter of J M

Just outside Camelford, which we can see in the background, Outground Mill took the water for its overshot wheel from a side stream. The corn miller at the time was John Harris.

The Technical College c1950 Clowne is situated about 9 miles north-east of Chesterfield. Many men found work at nearby pits, including Barlborough on the outskirts of the village.

For many years, it was impossible to move here without a photographer snapping you, pushing a card in your hand and telling you to call at his kiosk on the front for some happy holiday snaps.

The Falcon Inn at the corner of Grosvenor Street was once the town house of the Grosvenor family.

The white gate at the bottom of the neat garden near the camera opens onto the Alton to Medstead road.

It is a peaceful day in Evesham at the end of Edward VII's reign, with some good examples of shop signs, such as Deakin's fruit and marmalade, 'the best that skill and science can provide', and

This double fronted Georgian house exudes all the comfortable status that the Established Church could expect at the time it was built in the late Georgian times.

In the centre stands Hylton House, home of the last Lords of the Manor, later to become Seager House School, a girls' school evacuated from Hayling Island at the start of World War II, and then Moreton

Even less has changed in this scene in the old part of what is a very old small town, which had its own Bishop at the beginning of the 10th century.

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

There has been a bridge over the river at this point for centuries.

The building, whose simple Doric doorcase we see here, stands near the council offices at the end of Glynne Way, and dates from the 1740s.

Sherborne School for Girls dating from 1899 and founded by Mrs Kenelm Wingfield Digby, is here seen on Bradford Road - its home from 1903.

At this time, views such as these could be replicated a hundred times throughout the county of Devon. Thatch, unsurfaced road and total absence of traffic was the norm.

Much of the credit for the success of Cheltenham Ladies' College must go to the indomitable headmistress Miss Dorothea Beale, who arrived at the college in 1858 and remained in charge until her death

At the time of this photograph, these were known as the French Gardens; they are now known as the Rose Garden.

The timeless occupation of harvesting oats, at one with nature when performed by man and beast, is seen here on Anglesey.

This lovely leafy scene is somehow made complete by the attentive man below the fallen tree looking at the lady ...

At the centre of this picture is a distinctive stone lamp standard given by Edward Simeon in 1804 'as a mark of affection to his native town'.

St Mary's church is now approached through a housing estate, but is well worth a visit to admire the magnificent Norman doorway as well as the contrasting simple but lovely modern screen at the west end