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Here we see the mundane suburban face of the village, which has grown around a core of rather special later medieval houses and the Rothley Temple, built on Knights Templar land in c1315.

Just a handful of people and two bathing machines can be seen in this late-Victorian photograph of Stokes Bay.

Originally, development along here had been for residential purposes, but as early as the 1860s some of the houses were being converted into retail premises.

St Marwenna's church sits on a ridge of high ground on the edge of the village. It has a low tower, nave and north aisle, with a south transept on the far side.

Solid, if plain, buildings on both sides of Fore Street give this district of Hayle the look of a mining town. The name comes from the copper works, which closed in the early 19th century.

Only a year earlier Mr R M Broadbent had opened the Groudle Glen Hotel as part of a continuing series of improvements to attract visitors.

A young boy stands thoughtfully on the Long Bridge, which spans Cuckoo Weir. Across the meadow you can see the spire of Clewer Church.

This quaint old pair of 18th-century cottages are built out of the local sarsen stone. Beyond is the Old Manor, dating from the early 16th century.

The 15th-century tower of All Saints, the Anchor pub and the elevation of the bridge, which is medieval in origin with 19th-century additions, add up to a classic photograph of the entrance to the village

Milford on Sea has been a successful small resort since Victorian times, and its devotees return again and again. The beach is shingly, but the bathing is safe.

The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby.

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

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.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the Cathedral, whose modest spire (added to the original tower in 1904) rises behind

Pevsner writes: 'The church is out of the way to the west of the High Street, and what is attractive as a setting is around it and has little do with the town'.

The splendid Perpendicular tower of All Saints, Youlgreave, is one of the finest in the Peak District, and commands this view down Church Street.

Newton Ferrers and Noss Mayo, 'Newton and Noss' to all locals, line the opposite banks of the Yealm estuary.

The rather smart youngsters show no reaction to the news of the 'new crisis' on the newspaper placard on the left: the Germans had defaulted on their reparations payments.

Today many of the old buildings of the old docks, and the mills that lined them, have disappeared.

Looking east along High Street, which was dominated by the spire of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's church of St Nicholas and St Runwald.This replaced two older churches (St Runwalds and St Nicholas

Lydney is situated upon the northern side of the Severn almost opposite Sharpness.

Here we see harvest home in the village of Netherbury. Perhaps the harvesters have retreated to the Star Inn, seen in the centre of this picture, after their hard day's work.

Horsted Keynes, situated on the western edge of the Ashdown Forest, has a green and an assortment of period houses and cottages.

These industrial buildings, now an engineering works, are a reminder of Ottery's industrial heritage, for the town was famous for the production of serge and lace in previous times.