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Cycles are clearly the 'in' thing for Barnstaple ladies at the turn of the century.

Each day at dawn, strings of racehorses would pass gracefully up the hill, as they had 100 years earlier.

The Luton factory's great wartime feat was to design and build a completely new tank, which was ready for production within a year of the conflict starting.

Between 1900 and 1905 Vickers built Vickerstown on Walney Island, an estate to house shipyard workers.

It was once thought (justifiably at that time) to be a large burial mound for an important Bronze Age chieftain.

Virtually unchanged since this view was taken, apart from the loss of the central chimney stacks, the Six Bells is in the old village of Horley near the parish church of St Bartholomew, whose churchyard

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

Tantallon Castle perches on top of cliffs overlooking the Firth of Forth. It was once the seat of the powerful Douglas family, wardens of the Border Marches and lords of Galloway.

The parkland of 18th-century Welton Place sweeps south to the north bank of the Grand Union Canal, in its cutting leading to the east portal of the Braunston Tunnel.

A sign of the times is here in the form of the AA box (right) with two AA patrol men going across the road for a quick one!

Here we see two horse-drawn narrow boats, the 'Linnet' and the 'Evelyn', belonging to George Garside, at the attractively sited lock in Cassiobury Park, Watford.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

Arthur Trevorrow is throwing a jug on the wheel; beside him are various examples of his work, beautifully hand-decorated with slip in waves, whorls and dots.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

This, the northern gate, stands on the site of the Roman Porta Principalis, the gateway of Eboracum. The barbican was demolished in 1835. The name Bootham derives from Buthum, 'at the booths'.

The village is only two miles from Richmond, but it retains its rural charm. The White Swan Inn on the left is 300 years old; the third house from the right is the old Gilling Club for working men.

If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those men of stone

The whole of Charlwood parish, formerly in Surrey, was annexed to Sussex for some years prior to 1974, and the southern part of the parish remains in Sussex.

As we look toward West Pier from the west, we see the landward pavilion at the right, then the tower of the Metropole to its left. Nearer the camera are a range of somewhat disparate stucco fronts.

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion

The coming of firstly the Grand Union Canal and then the railways, led to the establishment of modern Linslade at its present location.

The large very attractive Saxon village on the road from Oakham to Stamford now overlooks the modern dam on the north-east angle of Rutland Water formed in the valley of the River Gwash,

This is a beautiful photograph of Rutland at its best. Pollarded willows line the stream, which appears to have trapped the wheels from a large cart.