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Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

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

At the south end of the High Street Frith's photographer looks northwards beside the turning on the right into Hawleys Lane.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country. On the extreme right is a single-decker bus which would now be an asset to any transport collection.

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Swindon adopted the Public Libraries Act in 1942, and its first public library opened in McIlroy's departmental store in Regent Street the following year.

Seaton developed as a resort in the 1850s, and in the years that followed a number of hotels were built to cater for the town's popularity with visitors.

This Gothic arched doorway was originally the front door of The Mount, which was where Stanley Baldwin lived as a boy. The 19th century house is now a hotel (the Stourport Manor Hotel).

Over 150 years ago, Church Street was the main way out of the town to Chatburn. Dates can be seen on house frontages - one drainpipe bears the date 1757.

Situated on the main coast road, this public house is extremely convenient for tourists and the villagers.

The parish church of St Michael is one of the most interesting in the Lake District.

The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

Here we see the gatehouse and the moat of the tower-keep. As a professional soldier, William Herbert had fought for and been knighted by Henry VI.

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

Marking the end of an era, the Bull Inn at Swyre was one of the last roadhouses to be built in England in the 1930s, enabling Mrs Bessie Case to offer 'hotel accomodation' in time for Defence Area status

In the immediate post-war era, Luton was a medium sized town - albeit a county borough - about to become very much larger.

The design of the building on the extreme left of the photograph is 'restrained Co-op' of the 1930s, not pictur- esque but solid and honest.

The school opened in 1896, and it was greatly enlarged twice to meet the demands for secondary education. It was designed as a single-storey building, and a further storey was built in 1901.

The village has grown and developed in the shadow of Ascot racecourse, which occupies an elevated position overlooking the surrounding area.

Although a church dedicated to St Elphin is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, there had probably been a place of worship here from the 7th century.

The 1560ft-long Welwyn viaduct at Digswell carries the London to Peterborough railway 100ft above the River Mimram a mile or so north of Welwyn Garden City.

Portmadoc was originally intended to be the port of Tremadoc, a new town that never got beyond a village; it was planned by the speculator William Madocks, who had a grand scheme to persuade the Government

While the neighbouring resort of Margate had been attracting hordes of trippers from London from 1753 onwards, Westgate remained a more sedate and favoured place for families throughout the late