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Eanulf, grandfather of King Offa of Mercia, founded a monastery at Bredon, though nothing of it is to be seen.

Weymouth's Nothe Gardens are beautifully situated on a headland overlooking the Isle of Portland and are the site of Nothe Fort, built to guard the huge naval harbour between the mainland and the Isle.At

The wheelwright in Old Colwyn was always busy making and repairing wheels and carts, as an inspection of the picture reveals.

Watergate Street is said to contain three of the finest examples of half-timber buildings still standing.

St Hilary's is one of only eight churches in the country dedicated to the saint. The lone tower dates back to the rebuilding of the 1530s, the rest of the church having been demolished in 1760.

An estate village of Hollycombe, a Tudor- style house of c1900. Chapel Common has a quaint 16th-century chapel in a wood, with a new church of St Luke built nearby in 1878.

A soldier stands to the right of the gate. The post box and telephone box must have been well used by residents at the camp.

A view of the south porch. St Andrew's Church was built in the latter part of the 15th century of oolitic limestone in the Perpendicular style.

He was later to die in 1712 as a result of a duel with the Duke of Hamilton.

In 1911 Reading formally absorbed much of Tilehurst, which had already in effect become a suburb of the town.

Through much of the Tudor period the Taylor family lived there, but in 1582 John Taylor found himself in debt, and he had to sell the lease to Henry Middlemore. The price was £1,318.

Previously a journey from London to Portsmouth entailed one of two options: to go to Croydon and then to Brighton, with a change there onto the South Coast line to Chichester and Portsmouth, or

Whippingham village lies close to Osborne House, and Victoria's consort Prince Albert had a hand in the extraor- dinary design of the church.

The Whitchurch Tollbridge Company was established in the 18th century: a distinctive Victorian bridge of lattice ironwork spans the Thames between Whitchurch and Pangbourne, one of only two remaining toll

On the left of this photograph of the Barbican is the Crispin Inn – St Crispin was the patron saint of cobblers and shoemakers.

This post-war council development can be dated by the medallions which were set into the front brickwork at the time of building.

An evocative view of wide shaggy grass verges, children and deserted roads characterises this view of Forest Row, the Ashdown Forest village that grew up on the site of Royal hunting lodges.

Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade. Note the bundles of thatch standing to the left of the picture.

Thousands of coastal footpath walkers cross here by the stepping stones. On the right are a pile of fishing nets in front of the fishermen's hut.

The inn on the corner of Lower Bridge Street and Shipgate Street was in need of urgent repairs.

A two-masted sailing trader is moored alongside the quay in the inner harbour, while a group of men has gathered around a catch of fish.

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre and covers an area of seventeen acres.

The soft rock cliffs above the Severn led to the creation of many caves. Some of these were enlarged and used as dwellings until quite recent times.

The castle and the south-eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to the wooded slopes