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This is a good view of one of the few places with access to a good beach for many miles of slate coast, although even then the sand is covered at high tide. Gull Rock is offshore.

It was while staying at Enfield that Henry VIII's only legitimate male child became Edward VI on the death of his father.

The Castle grounds include the 200-year old bowling green, and were laid out as a pleasure garden when Guildford Corporation bought the Castle in the 1880s.

This photograph of the town was taken from the tower of St Thomas's church at the top of the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian houses, bow-fronted cottages and covered shop fronts.

Nestling at the foor of St Andrew Street, they were demolished after the last war when slum clearance was the watchword. Modernisation was embraced, and down everything came.

At the heart of Southampton lies the Civic Centre, with its council offices, law courts and art gallery.

Main Street c1955 Victorian visitors had a number of inns to choose from when seeking sustenance in the town, some acting as fully-fledged hotels.

At the southern end of Lion Street, near its junction with Market Street, is Rye's large parish church of St Mary the Virgin, much of which is hidden by other buildings.

On the far left (displaying the RAC sign) is the Kings Head Hotel, which was in existence by 1669; the main entrance to this former coaching inn was in the Carfax.

The large building in the centre was erected in 1879 on the site of an earlier small shop.

A whole row of hop vines have been pulled to the ground ready for the nimble fingers of these workers to detach the hops and bundle them into bushels ready for transportation to local breweries.

Designed by Lanchester and Lodge, who were appointed after winning a competition in 1930, this was originally known as the Birmingham Hospitals Centre at Edgbaston; it was later named after Queen Elizabeth

Above the vestry door is a superbly carved Norman tympanum showing St Michael overcoming Satan. It is thought to date from around 1120.

In the 1920s, when the Lickeys were at the height of their popularity, several tea rooms were in business, and this one was still going strong in the 1950s.

The clock is a focal point of the town. Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

It is hard to imagine now, but this was still countryside not too many years ago. The name means 'long heath', and it was recorded in a deed dated 1426, now at Stratford Records Office.

The Ship Inn in Bunker Street was amongst the oldest in all Fylde, and was said to be the hideout for smugglers and their contraband arriving at Freckleton Pool.

The Queen's Hotel was built in 1837 at a cost of £47,000.

This view looks across the ornate, wrought iron gates of the Ladybower Dam towards the newly planted regimented forestry on the slopes of Win Hill.

Two little girls slake their thirst at the drinking fountain in the middle of the crossroads leading on the left to Walton Bridge, and on the right to Hersham, Esher and Cobham.

During the 18th and 19th centuries Emsworth was an important port along this stretch of coast, and it became successful mainly through corn milling, boat building, fishing and a flourishing oyster industry

Stoneleigh took its name from Stone's Farm, at the southern end of Nonsuch Park. Its rapid development followed the opening of the railway station on the Epsom to Waterloo line in 1932.

At the time of this photograph, Dover had two docks, Granville Dock and Wellington Dock, and two piers, Admiralty Pier (built in 1848), and Promenade Pier (built in 1893 and demolished in 1927).

Two kiosks at the entrance to the pier used to take bookings for cruises and shows. On the right of the pier are two of the town's hotels, The Antwerp and The Clarendon.