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Duncton sits at the foot of the Downs, with fine views nearby. Holy Trinity Church was built in 1866 in the Decorated style, on the site of a medieval church.

The Union Jack flying on the Victoria Tower indicates that Parliament is sitting.

This delightful little gatehouse has not changed at all. It sits by an entrance on the south of the estate.

In fact it is not difficult to believe that it was at one time the largest sub-post office in the country. It began life in 1770, however, as an administrative building for a mill.

Our tour of Reading town centre starts at the railway sta- tion, built in 1840 and remodelled in the 1860s.

This is another view that has now changed considerably because of the ring road, which could be said to slash its way through here.

The flagpole is not flying the Royal Standard, indicating that the Queen was away on this spring day. The Victoria Memorial was still a roundabout, which easily accomodated the light traffic.

Here we see one of the last bobbin lace makers at work.

It eventually merged with Nicholas School to become the new James Hornby High School (named after the final teacher at the St Nicholas's church annexe).

Circuses, including Barnum and Bailey's, once passed down this street on their way to the Vetch field.

Until the mid 1930s, coal was transported from the Midlands via the Oxford Canal to Oxford, and thence along the Thames to Benson, where it was offloaded at the local wharf.

The church tower is that of St Saviour's at Larkhall, consecrated in 1832, with its tall west tower imitating medieval Somerset ones.

The ridgetop village of Bolsterstone stands at nearly 1,000 feet above the sea on the edge of the Peak District moors north-west of Sheffield.

The caravan site on the right is on top of the Runton cliffs.

The Horse and Gate pub (left) has been redeveloped into shops, the Lion Hotel (right) is now flats, and parking is only allowed on the left-hand side of the street.

This mill at Commercial End with its attached buildings started to decay in the 1930s, and by 1955 the last barge was sunk in the old fishpond. The water channels were filled in by the 1970s.

Bridge Street was one of four main streets intersecting at Market Gate. All were not only shopping streets, but a key part of the regional road network.

Almost brand new at the time this photograph was taken, the first multi-storey car park of this size in the country opened on the site of Lee Street, the birthplace of Joseph Merrick, the tragic Elephant

The carriage road from Liskeard terminated at this tranquil village of brown stone cottages set by a creek swept by the tides.

St Bartholomew's enjoys an elevated position, possibly the site of a prehistoric fort, at the corner of Church Hill and Vicarage Road.

Although Ilfracombe is essentially a Victorian town, the elegant terraced houses of Montpellier Place (upper, left of centre) were built in the early 1830s.

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

Milton Street forms one of the main commercial areas of Saltburn, and is characterised by some fascinating glazed canopies across the shop fronts that survive to this day.

This scenic stretch of the Thames, overlooked by Christ Church Meadow, has long been a rowing reach; at one time the bank would have been lined with eye-catching college barges, which were used as