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A little further downstream, Romney Lock gives excellent views of Eton College across the river. The lock has since been reconstructed and the lock-keeper's cottage was rebuilt in 1919.

This view of King Street looks east towards the grand Portland stone bank at its end.

Portsmouth's magnificent Guildhall, one of Hampshire's stateliest civic buildings, was opened in 1890 by the Prince of Wales on behalf of his mother Queen Victoria who was said to be alarmed by the endless

Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.

Around the time this photograph was taken, the first of a series of Army camps was erected at Bramshott.

At this waterway, 30 or 40 brown trout often swim under the ducks.

In the far distance on the left you can just glimpse the low-water westward jetty of Birnbeck Pier. This was built so that steamers could berth at all states of the tide.

The Old Farm Stores and Post Office, on the left, was originally a domestic house. By 1834 it had become the farmhouse for Hutton Farm. It closed down as a shop and post office in the late 1970s.

A Free Dispensary for the poor had been set up at the rear of the churchyard in 1818, but there was an increasing need for better facilities, and the Infirmary & Dispensary was built in New

Here, those staying in Royal Terrace or at The Royal Hotel, could walk in peace, or linger for a while on one of the benches provided.

Guthlac, a Mercian royal warrior, came here on St Bartholomew's Day 699, having entered the monastery at Repton. He said that he would found his hermitage wherever his boat landed among the swamps.

It is low tide in this view looking towards the slipway and the Bay Hotel. The Bay itself sweeps around from Ness Point in the north to the 600ft high cliffs of Ravenscar, at the other end.

The school was founded in 1632; its original buildings were supplemented in 1899 by those on the left, at a cost of more than three thousand pounds.

One of the early buildings constructed as part of Ebenezer Howard's vision of a garden city at Letchworth, this fantastic structure was erected in 1906-7 by the architect Coulishaw, and was intended

Two schooners are moored at the North Quay alongside John Hawken's coal store.

Torrington occupies a magnificent site on a hill above the River Torridge.

Combeinteignhead takes its name from the valley which runs down to the Teign estuary at Combe Cellars.

The Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Fine sea views can be obtained from the regular summer open-top bus service which runs from Brighton to Rottingdean, a picturesque village situated in a dene, or valley in the downs.

Coventry was the first city to adopt a radical new idea: the traffic-free precinct. Construction began in 1951, and took about 5 years.

It was a charity school whose pupils wore blue coats. When the school outgrew its site, land was purchased at Harborne in 1913 to build a bigger school, but it was 1930 before it opened.

Hardly changed today, this substantial, good-looking pub still stands opposite Prince's Corner at the end of the High Street.

This photograph shows a similar view to O51014, but much has changed in the intervening five years.

A quieter resort than neighbouring Blackpool, Cleveleys attracted holidaymakers who were more inclined to stroll along the promenade or sit reading in the sheltered sea-front gardens.