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Broad Street is famous throughout Oxford for its assortment of bookshops.

Note the shopkeepers diligently scanning the High Street in search of custom. Outside E.W.

Port Skillion at the foot of Douglas Head was reached by ferry from the harbour, fare 1d, and was used by gentlemen only for open-air bathing.

This is the original hand-rowed ferry service across the narrowest part of the Windermere at Bowness Nab.

There is not much traffic to be seen in Victoria Street at this time.

This photograph of The Hard, overlooking Portsmouth Harbour, shows at least three pubs - including The Victoria and Albert in the centre of the picture.

Here we see an assortment of old holiday cruisers tied up at the quay in St Ives. Note the identical fold-back roofs fitted to each boat.

The Church of St Mary stands at the top of the hill above the old Cluniac Priory of Prittlewell.

Erroneously known at the time when this photograph was taken as the Druids' Circle, the Castlerigg Stone Circle just outside Keswick is dramatically set in an amphitheatre of hills, including Skiddaw,

The Thames emerges from the Goring Gap at Pangbourne, and the valley widens out again. This view looks downstream from the riverside garden of Waterside House towards Whitchurch Bridge.

The older part is naturally more interesting, with its quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Until mid-Victorian times, this part of the road, known now as Greenhill, had been called New Well Hill. Here, we are looking towards the Green at the turn of the century.

Taken from almost the same spot in Long Street as photograph 75947; a signpost has appeared, indicating the way to Dorchester, Blandford, Wincanton and Shaftesbury.

Danbury sits at the top of a long uphill haul on the road from Chelmsford to Maldon. Before the Navigation was opened, this was the main thoroughfare between the two towns.

The low granite tower of St Senana looks down on the first and last hotels in England.

A change in sea level and erosion have combined to produce a fascinating effect off this beach, as documented by Giraldus Cambrensis: 'We then passed over Niwegal sands, at which place (during the winter

Here we see Cranleigh's old village hall at Rowlands Corner, with its attendant shops. It is now the British Legion building, and a new 'village' hall has been built in the centre of town.

The inn was originally called the Harrow, but changed its name to the White Horse in 1769.

Before that, ships tied up at the churchyard wall of St Saviour's, the tower of which, built in 1631, can be seen in the centre.

It is hard to believe now, but East Budleigh was a port before the river Otter silted up around the sixteenth century. Sir Walter Raleigh was born just outside East Budleigh at Hayes Barton in 1552.

At this time, close to the end of the Victorian era, staying fully clothed on the beach was very much the norm, with sand castles and donkey rides the prime amusements for the children; the adults relax

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary. It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.

Other than that, the ancient heart of St John's still looks very like this picture, its Georgian and Victorian facades mostly unspoilt - on the upper floors at least.

When Charles I moved with his court to York, the royal printing press was housed here. Over the years, many owners and many changes of use left the building in a ramshackle state.