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Down a tiny lane off the main street, we find the charming 19th-century church of St Gregory.

The house on the left has been totally restored and renovated. The building opposite has changed beyond description.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was given as a private house to Thomas Birch, one of the yeoman of the Crown.

The Castle Hotel is to the right of this picture. Note the shop frontage for Stephen and Fred Green on the left (now a chartered accountants).

It is washday again; this time the linen is pegged on a line on Tate Hill sands. Washing machines were almost unknown at this date, and owned only by rich people.

The present horse on this site dates from 1778 and was the first of several figures cut in the chalk downs of Wiltshire during the next half-century.

The Town Hall, in Church Street, was designed by John Lowe and erected during 1880-81 on the site of the old cockpit.

The wide sweep of the Esplanade in this Victorian scene is almost unchanged, with the exception of the tramway system and the railings along the gardens.

The High Kirk of St Giles was largely built in the 14th and 15th centuries.

It was once a vital waterway for the carrying of fleeces and woollen produce, for Norwich was once one of the great weaving centres of medieval England.

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and friend of Charles II, was brought to Kirbymoorside after falling from his horse whilst out hunting.

The pond is in central Ewell; the wall separates it from the grounds of Bourne Hall on the right.

Clovelly's remarkable state of preservation is due to the philanthropic nature of the Hamlyn family, who acquired the manor in 1740.

Pebbles were once known locally as pobbles, and the ford on the River Otter was full of them - hence the name of the village.

Edward Milner was also responsible for the design of the 23 acres of gardens which adjoin the Pavilion at Buxton.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

Rockley Sands developed as one of Poole's great leisure centres in the last half of the 20th century, and boasted one of England's first supermarkets to cater for the increase in visitors.

The white-walled bungalow in the foreground looks a little incongruous in this view of the centre of Hutton, which shows the bridge over the River Leven in the background.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

Littlebredy is one of those beautiful villages that time seems to have passed by, a real survivor of earlier pastoral farming.

An older chapel at Alderholt fell into ruin during the reign of Charles II. The original was used by huntsmen to bless their expeditions into the wilderness of Cranborne Chase.

The pavements of Market Street were crowded with pram-pushing mothers shopping for the week's provisions.

Extensive development and infilling has transformed the village into more of a suburb of Hinckley today.

This building is the last remnant of the Tannery, and still stands east of the bridge opposite Greenaway's car park.