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The next few views are in the Inner Circle, east of the lake, which had been leased to the Royal Botanic Society from 1839 until 1932.

A group of children sit outside the Technical School, now part of Blackburn College, but founded during Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

This pretty village has a number of attractive houses. This picture shows the varied building materials used in Norfolk: flint, clay-lump and the famous Norfolk Red brick.

Judging by the rows of sweet jars on display in E W Winfield's Cash Stores, it must have been a popular shop with the local youngsters.

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

Monk Bar on Goodramgate is one of the finest gates in the York city walls, and the closest to York Minster. It is vaulted on three floors and still has a working portcullis.

This imposing building is impressively situated on the shores of Southampton Water.

Perched on rocky cliffs five miles north-west of Camelford, Tintagel probably owes its survival to its association with the Arthurian legends.

In the 12th century, Hastings was the headquarters of the Confederacy of the Cinque Ports.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

This beautiful parish church of All Saints was built by the abbot of Ramsey for his manor estate in the late 14th and 15th centuries. The cobble stone walls were all originally plastered.

Hayes department store on the right, now expanded from the one shop in this view, and on the left the picturesque Walcot Parade of about 1770, with its vaults for coal cellars and stores beneath the curving

Go there today and you will find a delightful little town with handsome buildings, lines of busy shops and pubs and many cars parked at the roadside - all of it creating a colourful, bustling community

Children and pub customers pose for the camera outside the pub in this photograph of Farnborough taken a year before the outbreak of the First World War.

The town of Aldershot is largely Victorian. In those early days some of the streets had shops on one side and barracks on the other. The older part of the town lies close to the railway station.

Narberth has seen much change since this photograph was taken, and a great deal of redevelopment has taken place. Narberth was once part of the domain of the powerful medieval Mortimer family.

The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.

The Fox Inn dominates this view up Bow Street to the tall Market Cross, which we can just see at the head of Westgate in the distance.

This imposing edifice, with a front porch of great style, is perhaps surprisingly grand for such a small village on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.

The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.

The view is dominated by the gents' loos of the Queen's Head (left), which were demolished in 1982-83. The roof of the Old Vicarage rises behind.

His Punch voice (produced by a device held in his mouth called a swazzle) was amplified by means of the loudspeaker to the right of the stage.

This crossing is at the east end of Bury Road, with No 58 visible through the trees, just west of the traffic lights and junction of the roads from Bury and Norwich.

The Town Hall is in the middle of the ancient market place.