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This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland which is just beginning to become built-up as the suburb of Harnham.

Tidworth has few buildings of architectural merit. Holy Trinity is in North Tidworth, the centre of the civilian area.

The village used to be called Auldkirk because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the sixteenth century.

Everard's Commercial Hotel is to the left, and in the distance is the earlier Corn Exchange of 1836. To the right is the cupola of Cupola House.

Both Acock’s Green and Olton were once residential areas favoured by the wealthier inhabitants of Birmingham, but they became progressively industrialized as factories opened along the route of the

Two miles south east of Rotherham, Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This is a fine view of a pastoral hillside. The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row. Holy Trinity church was built towards the end of the last century and features a copy of an Italian Pieta by Francesco Francia.

Cycles are clearly the 'in' thing for Barnstaple ladies at the turn of the century.

Now Southampton's Archaeological Museum, this used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and powder stored here.

The Plain, as it is known, lies just to the east of Magdalen Bridge, representing the boundaries of the old city. Here the Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

Tom Tower is one of the college's most treasured architectural features, as well as a famous landmark on the Oxford skyline.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site. The heavily restored medieval tower is all that remains.

Above the junction of Castlegate and Parsons Lane is the keep of Clitheroe Castle, which was founded under Roger de Poitou shortly after William seized the throne from Harold.

Ladies Walk was laid out in 1785 by the Enclosure Award Commissioners in conjunction with the Corporation of Andover.

Here we see a change of pace compared to some of the previous pictures: the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and the road is heaving with traffic. 1955 was a year of newspaper and dock strikes;

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

Now totally pedestrianised with trees planted to give some shade, the Square is dominated by the 16th- century market hall (left) and the statue of Robert Clive, Clive of India.

The one mile embankment was constructed in 1859 by the Earl of Leicester to enable the larger trading vessels to reach the town quayside.

Dedicated to St Michael and All Angels, the church contains monuments to the Galton family of Edstone Hall.

This photograph was taken during the heyday of the Cairo and Central promenade; we are looking towards the bandstand and the Kursaal, with a happily-posed seaside goat-cart and donkey.