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The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.

The first church was a chapel, built here in 1142; at that time a quay to the left brought the water nearer to the churchyard. Today the scene remains largely unchanged.

St Mary's church at Longfleet is seen from the lake in the new Poole Park.

A memorial stone at the entrance to Botley station recalls the murder in 1800 of one Thomas Webb.

The statue at the end is of Lord Byron. The library houses many famous manuscripts, including ones by Milton, Macaulay, Thackeray and Tennyson.

The lack of change from the previous shot is quite remarkable, considering there have been at least two world wars and a social revolution between.

This view shows the main entrance to Broadmoor Asylum, which is situated at Crowthorne. Built on rising ground in 1863, Broadmoor is still in use today.

The large central building used to be the coastguard station, and the half-moon battery at its front is now provided with seats instead of guns, making it a favourite place to relax

10th-century Anglo-Saxon church tower at Earls Barton.

This is the forecourt at the north front of Wilton House.The house was built for the first Earl of Pembroke when he was granted the old nunnery estate after its dissolution in 1544.

The entrance to Sulby Glen is at the Tholt-e-Will Hotel, and in 1894 admission was only a few pence.

For many years Sherborne was the capital of the Saxon kingdom of Wessex. As a cathedral town at that time its bishops were expected to be warriors as well as theologians.

The salt industry both here and at Nantwich suffered as a result of the shelving of a scheme to open the rivers of these towns to navigation.

In 1964 Runcorn New Town was designated, the aim being to increase the population from 29,000 to 100,000.

In the background is the Old England Hotel, one of many which sprang up in this little town as tourism took hold in the Lake District at the turn of the 19th century.

Fairby Grange stands in almost an acre of well tended gardens. In this view it must be a warm breezy day, for flowers are in bloom and curtains are fluttering at the open windows.

A favourite outing with holidaymakers was to take the Snaefell Mountain Railway to where it crossed the Douglas to Ramsey road at the Bungalow Hotel, and then walk along the road through the valley to

The mill at Witchampton stands on the site of a much older mill building.

A steam train pulls into Newby Bridge Station, at the southern end of Windermere.

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

Leaving Winchester Street and looking back at Morris's building behind the policeman, this was designed as Barton's Hotel by the architect for A B Scott's shop.

Bramber is located at the foot of a Norman castle guarding the tidal River Adur. The castle was stormed and wrecked by the Parliamentarians in the Civil War, in 1641.

An overview of Barnstaple taken from the Mount Sandford area. The lush fields are clear to see, as is the bridge, Raleigh Cabinet Works, and the estuary.

The parish church is at the top of the street, out of camera shot.