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We are looking down Penrith's main shopping street.

Ahead in the curved early 19th-century building is Ralph Say & Son, outfitters and drapers - an older business, W T Calvert, general draper, has just closed down.

Further down the street is a van with 'Lyons Tea, Coffee & Cocoa' emblazoned on its rear door.

As we approach the town, it is possible to see cranes rising above the waterfront of this busy port. Harbour Road is close to the sea. Both the Angel and the next building are clad in weatherboard.

Seen from Lower High Street, this was the main A30 through the town and a busy stop for buses and coaches.

Fore Street once had many thatched cottages and a stream running down one side, but it was rebuilt in the 19th century, when the town prospered with the woollen industry.

The view down the High Street has changed very little, but the increased volume of traffic has brought traffic lights to the junction with the road to Over.

Aptly named, this wide street wends its way down to the river. In the foreground stands the Bear Hotel, formerly The Bear's Head, built around 1868, with its mock-Tudor façade.

Down the years, pyramids of waste have scarred the landscape above St Austell, creating an eerie, lunar atmosphere.

Down by the crossroads is the Six Bells public house, while to the left, the church is one of only two in England dedicated to Saint Vigor.

Following the transfer of the mail boat service to Dun Laoghaire, Howth harbour had by this time settled down to a quiet existence.

This classic view looks west down High Street to the Wey valley and beyond to Guildown (The Mount).

The men standing at the door on the left are customers of the Lion Inn, which burned down on 8 November 1908 and was never rebuilt. The Congregational Chapel in the background was built in 1831.

Stand by the Burton monument and look down the High Street to compare this photograph with the scene today. The Lion and Lamb on the right has changed its name, and is now called Fridays.

Here we are looking east towards the hill down to the Hamble River. On the right we have Robertson, a chemist, and the local post office adding to the many shopping facilities for the inhabitants.

Easily the most famous and most photographed building in Ambleside is Bridge House, a tiny one-up, one-down building constructed on a bridge over the Stock Beck.

This lovely street, fringed with cobbles, leads down to the White Lion Inn and the old church, where the poet William Cowper, 'England's sweetest and most pious bard', was laid to rest.

This view looks from Market Square down Friargate.

It has spectacular views of the South Downs and Chichester Cathedral, and contains paintings by Canaletto, Van Dyck and Stubbs.

They are set slightly below road level, and are reached by steps down. The thatch remains in excellent condition, and so do the porches. The picket fence has been extended to replace the hedging.

This bleak, wind-blasted village, the most westerly in England, is known locally as Church Town. The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

We are now high above the famous Cow and Calf Rocks looking down the eastern side of Ilkley with the Ben Rhydding Hydro dominating the original hamlet of Wheatley, which was renamed once the hydro opened

Behind the Cow and Calf rocks is this desolate valley from where most of the stone to build the town was quarried.

In 1905 it became the duty of the hotel boots boy to pull and tie down a cord which silenced the quarterjacks during the hours of darkness.