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Designed by Leader Williams, it comprised two water-tight tanks, each capable of holding a pair of narrow boats.

This is a quiet residential road in a village of fine buildings. The most impressive is probably Brasted Place, built by Robert?

Some of the lime trees have also gone; but now seats have been provided so that townsfolk can enjoy the area, and there are innovations in the form of a telephone kiosk and a pillar box.

In December 2000, it was estimated that 400,000 cubic metres of earth was slowly moving down the side of Leith Hill.

It is a sunny day in this quiet village that stands between the water meadows of the River Wey and Alice Holt Forest.

The open aspect of the street pictured here and familiar to us today originates from the demolition of older buildings in 1862 to allow road widening.

The interior view of St John's Church shows the east window depicting Christ holding the orb, flanked by St Peter and St Mary. It is a memorial to the Rev George Garbett, vicar of St James'.

A church stood on the site of the present St John teh Baptis;s church over 900 years ago.

Situated to the east of Acock’s Green, and four miles from the city centre,Yardley is one of the parishes absorbed by Birmingham in 1911.

Here we see the east front of Chatsworth from the French Gardens, now with pillars removed and known as the Rose Garden.

This is a good study of the stark angularity favoured by 1960s architects. The children's clothing, too, is characteristic of the time.

Prior to the late-Victorian development on this part of the seafront, it would have been possible to see Castle Mona, the residence built in 1804 for Governor James Murray (later Fourth Duke of Atholl)

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills. It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fishing boats - it is still the age of the sail.

This long view of the beach is seen here from a vantage point above the Alexandra Gardens.

Lowestoft is very much a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort, the latter the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

The main facade of Trinity College stands on the right with its statues by Foley of famous alumni Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, while on the left is the Bank of Ireland.

This north side of the green was known as Beaux Walk in the 19th century because of its numerous gentlemen's clubs, several of which still exist.

Sitting up on the moors, nine miles southwest of Whitby, is the village of Goathland. It became involved in the hydropathic movement with the opening of the Goathland Hydropathic Establishment.

A view of the ordnance depot of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Dominating its rather mundane surroundings, Holy Rood Church, built between 1883-90, was the inspiration of J F Bentley, later to be the architect of London's Westminster Cathedral, and its brickwork

This fine Gothic archway was erected by subscription to the memory of Humphrey Millett Grylls in 1834; it is built in granite ashlar with four tall octagonal pillars.