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Low Row is to the left, the lowest of three similar rows; Middle Row had been demolished by the time of the picture.

So called because a moneyer is reputed to have stayed here for a time in the 14th century, this is really part of a medieval merchant's house.

'P' Block was the home of the Production Engineering Department, and was therefore seen by many as the nerve centre for car and van production in Luton.

The boating lake did good business during the long hot summer of 1914.

Although the scene is basically little changed, apart from the loss of the National Provincial Bank on the right (it was replaced by an archetypal building of the 1960s or early 1970s, larger but of

A more casual style of dress had become popular by the 1950s. Motor bikes were a common feature of the Parade, and the number of cars was growing.

With its colourful display of carefully tended flowers, spreading chestnut tree and white picket fences, this scene is an archetypal illustration of what most people visualise when thinking of

The Red Lion Inn was built along with the spread of houses out from Cambridge in the 1930s. It faces the war memorial, erected in 1921-22 in memory of those who died in the First World War.

There were several dramatic floods in the valley of the Stour in the last half of the 20th century, though its waters seem calm and restrained in this photograph.

Striding Edge 1912 The glaciated knife-edge ridge of Striding Edge was already a popular route of ascent to 3,118 ft Helvellyn when this photograph was taken, if the prominence of the path along

Some people are fortunate enough to live away from the towns and in the heart of the New Forest, their old cottages looking as much a part of nature as the trees and furze.

This is the open space that makes up the centre of Coltishall. Summer trade is served by the Eldorado ice cream cart with its well-known invitation to 'Stop Me'.

Despite being in the heart of the Dorset countryside, Netherbury has a number of connections with the sea.

With stalls creaking under the weight of locally grown produce, there is no hint of the rationing to come after the outbreak of war the following year.

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

Some were critical of the dryness of the company.

Just 2.25 miles south-west of Roche Abbey stands All Saints'. Its fine Perpendicular spire is unusual, in that the corner walling of the belfry is sloped off.

The Weaver Navigation prospered throughout the 19th century owing to a very active policy of continuous upgrading and modernization programmes that included deepening the river, widening the channel, reducing

It was to the wrought iron railings outside the front entrance of the municipal buildings that relatives of patients in the isolation hospital came for news of their loved ones.

Penrith Castle was built by William Strickland, later Bishop of Carlisle, who was given permission to build Penrith Castle in 1397, following the sacking of the town by raiding Scots in 1354.

On the right of the picture is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

Wherwell is famous for its ruined priory, established by the Saxon Queen Elfreda, mother of Ethelred the Unready, possibly as an act of repentance following several dark deeds.

A charter of 1560 appeared to give the vote to the 'commonality' of the town. In 1669 Lord Clifford secured the vote of the council, but John Ferrers won because the common people had voted for him.

Charlton was the birthplace of Henry Bessemer, inventor of the Bessemer converter.