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Though it conjures up images of smugglers, this hidden cove was probably once called 'Redemen' (pebble ford).

An excellent view of the post-WWII town looking across the railway lines into the town. Note the many railway wagons in the yards in the foreground of the picture.

With the decline of the cloth trade a number of other industries utilised the old buildings, including piano manufacture.

At dawn on 13 February 1692, soldiers commanded by Campbell of Glen Lyon killed at least 40 out of the 200 MacDonalds living in this glen.

This is a typical atmospheric Georgian hotel on the steep hill up through the town.

It is possible to work out the dates of Cheltenham's terraces by comparing the architectural styles.

Kneller Hall, the famous home of military music, was originally built by the artist Kneller in the early 1700s. Little remains of that house.

The Capital and Counties Bank on the right of the photograph bears the date of 1834 which, however, refers to the founding of the bank rather than the date of the building which occurred

This church was badly restored by the Victorians in 1863, though many of its historic portions were spared.

This shows the first of the plague of holiday chalets which swept along the cliffside before planning regulations prevented their building.

In the north-east corner of Dartmoor, in open country, is one of the finest stone rings, Scorhill. It once consisted of 36 stones erected without any shaping.

At the time of this picture, Chawton House was occupied by Montagu Knight, grandson of Jane Austen's brother, Edward.

The church forms part of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1184, of which little remains.

This is the south end of Evesham Street, but none of this survives.

Some years before this photograph of Pangbourne Weir was taken, someone wrote of the village that it was 'another of those pearls of English landscape which our river threads; no sweeter is, within many

Reading is one of those towns that can only be appreciated on foot.

The Castle Hotel is to the right of this picture. Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants).

NOW, as we come into the third millennium, it is possible to see that all three communities have become essentially suburban areas, in that few people depend for their living on locally owned farms

Four hundred of these workers combed wool in their homes at Forton, Scorton and Nether Wyresdale.

Here we see the offices and entrance gates of Horrockses, Crewdson & Co on Stanley Street.

Limerick or Belmont Arch was built in about 1865 to allow access to the Earl of Limerick's property on the other side of the wall.

The first notable event of the 21st century (or the last of the 20th) was unpropitious. For the first time since 1946 Stafford suffered serious flooding.

The people of Weybridge held a meeting in June 1895 to decide on a suitable memorial for Mr Yool, and the first suggestion was to build a technical institute to be named after him.

Some of the streets of Vickerstown were named after renowned people from the recent Boer War (1899-1902).