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Like many other shopping streets in Salisbury, Fisherton Street has changed very little over the last fifty years, in spite of most of the shops themselves moving or closing down and being replaced

This imposing building is impressively situated on the shores of Southampton Water.The original castle, built by Henry VIII in 1542 as part of his many coastal defences, has all but disappeared, and

In 1627 Richard Foley opened a slitting mill at Hyde in Kinver for the purpose of cutting iron rods into suitable lengths for nailers.At this time nailmaking was an important industry in southern Staffordshire

Known by locals as 'The Cages', the three rows of lime trees were planted on the north east side of the road in the early 1840s.

Many of the houses along this stretch of the cliff top have decorative balconies overlooking the sea.There was no problem with parking at this time, in what is now a very busy area, within walking

The medicinal values of the waters around Malvern have been known to local people for centuries, and Doctor John Wall published a treatise on their efficacy in 1756.

Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine were crowned in the Cathedral, King John is buried there and his son Henry III came in great state for the re-dedication of the building.

Tickenhill Manor at Bewdley was given to the Mortimer family by William the Conqueror, coming back to the Crown at the time of Edward IV.

Great Harwood lies to the north of Accrington, and commands a lovely part of the Hyndburn Valley.

The new garden suburb of Gidea Park was begun in 1911 and was still developing in the 1930s.

This gem of a village is situated between the North Downs and the Greensand Ridge.

The bold black-and-white half-timbering of G Sedgwick's draper and outfitters shop in the centre of the picture (the owners are proudly standing outside) is in marked contrast to the same shop which

Members of the St Ives lifeboat wear the cork life-jacket designed in 1854 by Capt John Ross Ward. Cumbersome though it may look to us today, Ward's jacket worked.

The name of this long, narrow and very pretty open space is self-explanatory.

Situated just beyond Queen's Park, Wistaston is now a suburb of the town of Crewe. John Gerard, born in Nantwich in 1545, was educated in this village.

The Ship was described as one of the 'three good inns' of Mundesley in 1845. Among the facilities offered by the hotel were a quoits bed and bowling green.

Here we see the front of the Feathers Hotel on the right. The building was erected in 1565, although the top storey was added later.

It looks quiet here now, but once the market at Leominster was so successful that the cities of Hereford and Worcester were jealous of its success.

From Saxon times Feckenham was the administrative centre for the Forest of Feckenham, which once covered most of north Worcestershire.

This smock windmill was built in 1808 by Thomas Hunt of Soham in just five months. It was built on one acre of land allotted to John Chaplin after the enclosure of 1806.

This prosperous small town witnessed a day of rioting on 22 May 1822. The rioters were protesting against their starvation wages and the high levels of unemployment.

This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole. St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.

Can you spot the white-bearded man peering out at the photographer from the doors of the Man of Kent pub, right?

This floating school set up by the Royal Navy had trained hundreds of ships' crew from all over the world.