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Thomas Stonor built the Town Hall in 1664 to commemorate the restoration of the monarchy at the end of the Civil War.

The town council still holds its meetings at the 17th-century Town Hall - note its open loggia. The building is owned and maintained by a charitable trust.

The River Piddle winds beneath the chalk downlands of Dorset, giving its name to several villages along the way before reaching the sea at Poole Harbour.

Neatly-kept gardens and colourful flowerbeds brighten the station buildings at Burgh-by-Sands, a small village near the mouth of the Eden on the Solway Firth.

We are looking north towards Friary Gardens and Queens Road across the roundabout at the junction with Victoria Road. King Street became one-way for outbound traffic in 1994.

In 1912 the entrance kiosks were rebuilt with more exotic roofs; beyond is the then new bulbous-roofed Music Pavilion, erected in 1924 at a cost of £15,000.

The high pitch of the roof on the house to the right suggests that it may originally have been of thatch.

A deserted seat stands invitingly under the spreading chestnut tree on the village green at Cropton, four miles from Pickering on the southern edge of the North York Moors.

A view north up Church Street with Surrey Street Market to the right.

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813. He wrote some of his best known poetry here.

The pleasing interior of the church is the result of Sir George Gilbert Scott's work. He had the choir stalls re-arranged to allow more space.

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

Where better to begin an exploration of Taunton town than in Fore Street, very much the centre of this ancient Borough.

Frederick Barnes of Ipswich was appointed architect and it was hoped to open the new hotel, to be called the Royal Hotel, in time for the 1872 season.

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

The bus station managed to combine functionalism with aesthetics. The mosaic along its fascia measures 315?×?13ft, and consists of 16,000 hand-printed tiles. The artist was John Gordon.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion (on the right), and the Brown Cow.

By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

In its heyday, Beaminster could boast at least seventeen inns, built to cater for the many farmers who came to town for the weekly market, as well as passengers on the Crewkerne to Bridport coach.

There was a time when Crewe market was at its busiest after 6.30pm, workers having gone home for a bite to eat before coming out to shop.

The thatched linhay was ubiquitous at the time of this picture. Today, they are hard to find. Are the cows thin versions of the shorthorn, the standard milk cow of the era?

We are standing at the corner of Lady Lane, looking east. It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere.