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The High Street was one of the principal shopping areas of the city to be damaged during the air raids of December 1940.The front of the C & A store collapsed into the street following three direct

The college was first built for the Minster's Chantry Priests in about 1465.These priests had plenty of money and plenty of time on their hands, and were always getting up to mischief.

A view of the spire of St Michael's Church, with the remains of the famous Shire Oak, which has a girth of 29 ft. Taylor's Drug Store signboard is almost as big as the shop premises.

The beach at Charmouth is a mecca for geologists and fossil hunters, and explanatory walks take place from the heritage centre by the mouth of the Char.

The sea cadets parade proudly at their headquarters east of Kings Meadow on the south bank of the Thames.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

This picture is one of the great views of Cornwall, looking down St Stephen's Hill towards the valley of the River Kensey, with the jumble of houses clinging to the hillside beyond, capped by the castle

A little more than one mile to the west of Leith is the small fishing village of Newhaven. It was here that James IV founded a royal dockyard where he could build his navy.

Gatehouse of Fleet is situated near the mouth of the Water of Fleet, a few miles north-west of Kirkcudbright.

Few buildings remain which pre-date the Enclosure Acts, effectively extinguishing the ties within rural communi- ties in much of Leicestershire, and indeed the Midland counties.

The high viewpoint emphasises the rich woodland of the vale, with the prominent solid block of the present Rydal Hall, built in the 17th century, and the church of 1824.

In traffic-congestion terms much closer to the Southport of today, this photograph was taken at the height of the summer season.

Standing further back from the College, we can see part of the grounds in front of the building.

The 12th Earl of Derby had often stayed at his uncle’s house in Banstead, the Oaks; as he was a keen sportsman, there was talk of his funding a new stakes for horse racing.

One of the consultants at the time of our photograph was Sir Charles Brown (1836-1926).

The village of Goudhurst has always ranked as one of the most graceful of the Kentish Weald. This view shows the hilly nature of the place, perched over 400 ft up.

Towards the north-west lies the mound of Beacon Hill. The earliest origins of Loughborough may be here.

One of the five great fortresses of Northumberland, Alnwick fell into ruins owing in part to the fate of the Percy family and the destruction wreaked by Cromwell's troops.

Standing in 270 acres of parkland, Raby Castle was the seat of the Neville family for two hundred years.

Here, in the middle of all the people, animals and carts, stood the Market Cross - an open-sided structure consisting of a roof supported on wooden posts.

This quiet enclave of art gallery, library and Manor House flanks the church. Out of sight to the right is the Grammar School of 1913, now the offices of the Borough Council.

The Mill 1901 Now absorbed into the expanding suburbs of Ashford to the south, this small village once boasted its own imposing windmill on the banks of the Great Stour.

A fine study of the Ladies' Bathing Place, which seems a popular venue for both the women and menfolk of Portrush. A yacht can be seen out towards the Skerries.

Georgian buildings abound in the town, although it harks back to Tudor times, owing much of its early development to Thomas Seckford, a lawyer at the court of Elizabeth I.