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Like the nearby village of Alvecote, Polesworth was once a mining area.

The Tudor Café, seen on the left, was a popular attraction with a great many of Newbury's citizens as well as large numbers of visitors to the town.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1500s, this became the parish church for the town.

The advent of the internal combustion engine saw the demise of the village blacksmith, although the art is making something of a comeback with the demand for decorative railings and gates.

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

This view of a corner of the village's rectangular green shows the Fountaine Inn on the left, named after Linton's most famous son, Richard Fountaine, who became an alderman of the City of London in the

This fine example of Norman architecture was in a derelict state, and the church of Holy Trinity in New Road, consecrated in June 1855, took over as the place of regular worship.

In the years following the end of the second world war, John Harker Ltd built several estuarine tankers on the foreshore at Sharpness. One of them might be in the background of this picture.

The parish church of St Nicholas, like many of Wirral's fine buildings, is constructed from local red sandstone.

The parish church of St John the Baptist overlooks the water meadows of the Ouse; the sunsets from here on a winter's evening are wonderful.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

Another of the town's important roads, Crow Lane East was extended in the 1960s with the addition of a library, the original Technical School and a large estate of social housing.

As an approach to Junction 1 of the M53 motorway, Leasowe Road (A551) is now dual carriageway for much of its length.

In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Sir John Washington, who was knighted by Charles I and was buried in the local churchyard, was the brother of Lawrence Washington, whose son John emigrated to America and became the great-grandfather of

This photograph shows the more residential character of this street. A rare tin sign for Arthur Rozier, tin and zinc worker, is on the 16th-century jettied building to the left.

It closed in the 1990s, and has since had a number of uses, including those of fur- niture showroom and museum of childhood.

Needham, on the main road from Ipswich to Stowmarket, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

Dominating Castle Square ('Y Maes' in Welsh) at the west end of the town, stands the great bulk of the castle. The structure covers two and a half acres and is in the shape of an irregular oblong.

Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.

Tenby stands on a tongue of limestone rock, ending a green promontory, which is crowned by the ruins of the old castle, and is now pleasantly laid out with walks which serve at once as pier and promenade

The tower of the medieval St Peter's Church, seen here on the left, dominates much of Dorchester's High Street.

It is a replica of the ancient Ruthwell Cross, and was placed here in 1892 by the efforts of Canon Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust.