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After the death of his mother Queen Victoria, Edward VII did much to promote Ascot as a significant social event. This photograph of the racecourse was taken a year after Edward became King.

Middleham is famous for its racehorses, and this photograph of the Low Moor shows a string of horses ridden by flat-capped jockeys walking in a wide circle with the trainer supervising in the middle.

A lone elderly oarsman reflects on life on the still waters of the little bay below Wray Castle and its impressive ornate boathouse.

There is not much traffic other than a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

This beautiful display has survived, but vandalism and lack of funds has meant that many have disappeared.

These residential bungalows lining the harbour have been mostly swept away by hostile tides and the developments of the past century.

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square. The ornamental railings on the right are those of Botley Mill.

Our tour of the towns and villages near Lincoln starts in Gainsborough, a town of the ancient Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey that ruled what is now north Lincolnshire.

This street is composed of a myriad Victorian architectural styles and sizes. Three- and four-storey buildings jostle for position, selling all kinds of goods and services.

Elderly residents and visitors relax on the Esplanade in the last summer of the Great War, when most men of fighting age had responded to the call to serve king and country.

The main route into the city from the east is a fine illustration of the refurbishment and diversification of redundant 1960s office space.

The grave of Field Marshal Montgomery, who died in 1976, is in the churchyard, and his banner hangs in the nave of the church.

The cathedral, behind the fence (left), looks out onto the main retail area of the city, with Marks & Spencer's store (centre) still thriving.

This view is south-westwards from the quarry gallery to Anvil Point (centre left) where Purbeck's coast becomes a vertical wall of stone.

The parish church of St John the Baptist is shown from the north-east.

The machicolated heights of William Herbert's gatehouse and closet towers look down on the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap Thomas.

Leading to Runcorn Hill, Highlands Road and the surrounding area is a lovely part of the town. Of the cottages shown here only the one in the foreground still survives.

Viewed from above the River Roeburn, the scene overlooks the roofs of the village cottages, most of which were put up during the 17th and 18th centuries.

The grandeur and size of Perpendicular architecture owes its inception to the wealth created by the wool trade.

Corbets Tey, inspite of being in Greater London, still retains much of its rural charm.

Atherstone is one of only two places where the game of Shrovetide football is played; the other is Ashbourne in Derbyshire. In 1846 the game was finally banned from the streets of Derby.

The clock tower shown here, partly enclosed by an hexagonal shelter and situated at the centre of a traffic system, stands on the site of what once was a wayside chapel.

In the churchyard is the grave of the great Victorian Liberal Shaw Lefevre, Lord Eversley, who worked closely with the long-serving Prime Minister Mr Gladstone.

Before the railway came in 1838 and today's town began to grow, this was the centre of Woking. Here it appears as though it is completely deserted with not a soul to be seen.