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Note the handsome facade of the Old King's Arms at the top of the street. The inn is now a carpet shop, though the inn signs above it remain.

There were once cottages on this site, and on 24 May 1849, Anne and Charlotte Bronte arrived to stay in one of the cottages for a holiday. Anne had consumption.

Two miles south-south-west of Bridgend, Ogmore was originally built in 1116 by William de Londres to guard crossing points on the rivers Ewenny and Ogmore.

The narrow, twisting High Street is flanked by buildings of all shapes and periods, many hung with the characteristic dark blue slates.

The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.

In 1831 John, Earl of Shrewsbury, made this house his permanent home.

Of the three arches at the north end, the central one leads to the chapter house, whilst those on either side were book cupboards where the abbey library was housed.

There is not much traffic to be seen in Victoria Street at this time.Victoria Street leads off Church Street, now the A591, in this busy little town; it was originally known as Birthwaite, but

In 1897 the Dominion Line began a weekly scheduled service between Bristol and Canada, with the result that the importation of grain through the docks expanded.

The park on the south side of the old Dee bridge is known as Edgar's Field in memory of the Saxon king, Edgar.

This photograph depicts local residents out shopping in Farnborough.

The east end of Oxford Street is ahead. To the right, where hair cuts are advertised at four pence, is Tottenham Court Road. The number 7 bus on the left is heading into Shaftesbury Avenue.

The Sanctuary is now well surfaced to accomodate motor traffic, and a 'Keep Left' notice has been fixed to the lamp-post at the end of Queen Victoria Street.

Tin and copper were once mined hereabouts and Mary Tavy was at the heart of it.

Someone, perhaps Mr Gillam the grocer who owned the shop (left), is writing on the blackboard: lard was 6½d, sugar 2½d (one penny today) and 4d, with bacon at 8d, and cheese 9d and 10d.

This stretch of the river to the left of the bridge is now Riverside Gardens, but in 1893 it was known as Gunstock Wharf.

There were seats on the roof, and a magistrate's room below for dealing with the less reputable element.

From the foot of the Foxton flight of locks, the canal cuts through the classic late 18th-century enclosure landscape of straight hedges.

This hotel nestles at the foot of Box Hill, alongside the rushing traffic of the main London to Dorking road.

The National Westminster Bank (extreme right) is next door to a seed merchant, still an important trader in a country town before seeds were brightly packaged and sold by garden centres.

Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey on the site of an earlier Saxon church dedi- cated to St Werburgh.

The Thames falls by three feet and six inches at Shiplake Lock. Alfred Tennyson was married in Shiplake church in 1850.

The gatehouse and gardeners' cottages on the approach to Errwood Hall at Goyt's Bridge in the Goyt Valley.

At this stage only the nave had been completed in its austere early English Gothic style.