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The shops in the centre of Hawkshead are waiting for the tourists to arrive. The grey slate walls of the buildings and cobbled streets are typical of many Lakeland villages.

In this view of the Market Place, the vehicles in the car park are typical of the period, and the van in the centre probably came from RAF Chilmark nearby.

Pembroke is now also a popular yachting, building and repair centre.

The church, castle and market hall, the historic heart of the town, remain at the centre, but more modern housing fans out from it in this scene.

The cenotaph can be seen to the left of centre of the park, which is on Market Street. The memorial is dedicated to Whitworth men who died in the two World Wars.

Castle Combe was once a centre for cloth weaving but now seems to trade on its picturesque qualities.

South Road is the main route used for through traffic, which is why we can see a petrol tanker (centre left) going though the shopping area.

The town centre has changed remarkably little in the decades since this photograph was taken.

The mix of shops and inns and residential houses in the High Street continues right through Lechlade, which grew up as a medieval market centre.

In the late 20th century the crypt was converted into a health and healing centre.

In the background (centre left) is the tower of the large parish church of St Andrew.

The town centre was constructed on a plateau halfway between Laindon and Vange. The block of 41 shops facing Market Square was the first to be built.

Anybody standing today in approximately the same position as the photographer would see nothing more than a couple of dreary buildings and one of the Kingfisher Centre's multi-storey car parks.

A tractor, without a cab for the driver, hauls its trailer through the centre of the village. The houses are mostly thatched and built of stone.

An isolated lamp in the centre doubles as a bus stop, whilst the brick buildings behind look a little incongruous between the old cottages that neighbour them.

The sculpture forms the centrepiece for the shopping centre.

We are looking along Grosvenor Road towards the A26 to Tonbridge and London from the town centre at Five Ways, with Mount Ephraim Road on the left.

Great Houghton is only a couple of miles from the centre of Northampton, on the southern slopes of the Nene valley.

Set at the centre of a generous open space adjoining The Parade, Webb's was the foremost hotel for Victorian travellers, and was built in 1833 to serve the coaching trade.

Situated 7 miles from the centre of Oxford, the 16th-century Coach and Horses is an old coaching inn, as its name suggests. Although coaches do not call any more, it does have a bus stop nearby.

Note the perambulators in the centre of the picture.

Spring Cottage (centre) subsequently became a garage.

It overlooks the village of Hope and the gabled house known as Moorgate (centre right), which now serves as a Countrywide (formerly Co-operative) Holidays Association guest house.

Travelling north along the straight road from Brockenhurst brings the traveller to Lyndhurst, an ideal centre for exploring the northern edges of the great forest.