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Here we see the headmaster's house at Repton, which is known as the Hall. It incorporates part of the 15th-century Prior Overton's Tower.

On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera.

Great Totham Garage is still to be found behind the shop in Maldon Road.

This schooner may well have been unloading limestone, which was shipped from South Wales to be fired in the lime-kiln that still stands at the side of the beach.

The famous evangelist the Rev C H Spurgeon, who visited Mullion in 1872, was obviously impressed by the locals: 'If I were asked to select the Cornish parish which contains the greatest number of intelligent

Swalecliffe is two miles east of Whitstable and a popular area for holidaymakers. Here campers queue up at the camp shop for their daily newspaper, milk, bread and so on.

Even in the 1950s cars did not dominate the roads of Dorset, except during holidays and at weekends.

The excellent quality of the buildings at Marnhull shows that this part of the Blackmore Vale was wealthy from agriculture.

An admiring crowd of children - one with a hoop - and some adults linger at this cross-roads hamlet in the High Weald near Ticehurst.

Fernhurst lies due north of Midhurst in rolling, wooded border country near the Surrey town of Haslemere.

A good pint or a meal may still be had at the renamed Reef's Bar.

This view from the banks of the River Great Ouse looks towards the village, with the tower mill in the distance.

By the time this photograph was taken, Bournemouth was at the height of its popularity as this view of the town centre shows.

Many of the townís older houses in London Road can be seen in this view from Mount Ephraim.

Lampeter was established as a Norman settlement, but it remained a very small place until the 1820s, when it was decided to build a theological college here.

The festoons of electric light bulbs were a noted attraction for visitors strolling the promenade in the evenings and for the evening concerts given at the octagonal bandstand, beyond the Cigar

A war memorial at Colehill, which is situated just above the River Allen and not far from Wimborne.

The tearooms are to the left of the picture, with the bandstand to their right and Clare House Pier in the centre.

The trees soften the box-like lines of the church, and the well-filled graveyard contains many monuments to the people of Accrington.

Mithian lies just off the Perranporth to St Agnes road. Here at the top end of the hamlet, the nearest end of the thatched house is the post office, with a telephone kiosk outside.

Looking inland from the high ground above Black Head, this view captures almost the whole of the little valley where trees thrive in the shelter.

Christchurch stands on two rivers, the Stour and the Avon, and gets its old name of Twyneham from the Anglo Saxon, meaning 'the town between the rivers'.

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

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.