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These days, the timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall (moot is Old English for meeting) stands next to the beach. When it was built, it was right in the centre of town.

The Tower stood on Marine Parade, but it was demolished at the start of World War II.

The long, narrow High Street, with the Rose & Crown Inn on the right, is at the foot of a steep hill overlooking the sea.

This theatre stood at the entrance to Weymouth Pier; it is pictured here a year after it opened.

On the right is the entrance to Leeds City station. At one time there were three railway stations in the city centre: Central, Wellington and New.

At this time, this Georgian building dating from 1751 was the home of the King's representative in Ireland, and is now 'Aras an Uachtarain', the Irish president's official residence.

Cobbles, brick, timber and tile - an enchanting corner of Bletchingley over one hundred years ago.

This carefully-posed photograph shows the site of this historic well, which is situated a little way down a lane from St Keyne village in the East Looe valley.

Victorian advances in engineering sounded the death knell for wooden, sail-powered ships of the line, such as these ones moored at West Mud in the Tamar estuary.

Blackwater, which shares its name with that of the river, lies just to the south of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Now very much a part of north London, Southall boasts this attractive manor house, much used as the headquarters of a municipal department in recent years.

This grand war memorial by Henry Fehr was erected in 1923 on a site formed by the demolition of a number of houses at the east end of High Street, which visually linked the street to East Hill – a

Architects, like everyone else, tend to fling off their inhibitions at the seaside. Here a Chinese-inspired pagoda with veranda provides a welcome spot for visitors to repose out of the sun.

C ottages with steep, tumbling thatched roofs abound in this view of the village street. At this time Trumpington was a village separate from the city of Cambridge.

The wall on the left, on which the child is sitting, is known as New Quay, and the flight of steps leads to Victoria Place, built at the same time as the bridge in 1837.

Shepherd's Crag towers through the trees over the Victorian Gothic buildings of the Lodore Hotel at the southern end of Derwent Water.

A bustling town, Stroud still attracts shoppers from far afield, as it did when this photograph was taken at the end of the Edwardian era.

Situated at the top of Lythe Bank, about four miles from Whitby, this charming 17th-century coaching inn still serves beer and refreshments to the public.

Of the ancient medieval parish church little remains. The red sandstone tower dates from the 15th century, and may itself have been a rebuild on the base of an earlier structure.

Close to the quays at Poole is the 18th-century harbour office, once the Old Town House, a club for ships' captains.

Bridport's Town Hall intrudes into the path of traffic and pedestrians at the junction of West and South Streets.

Blackwater, which shares its name with that of the river, lies just to the south of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst.

Billy Moore's Boat Station - across the water - was built on a raft which floated up and down with the tide.

This packhorse bridge is one of the finest examples in England.