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Rather unkindly, Jerome K Jerome of 'Three Men in a Boat' fame, and our constant companion along the river from Oxford to Kingston, described Abingdon as 'quiet, eminently respectable, clean and desperately

Cricklade, ten miles from the Thames source, is an ancient town with evidence of Anglo-Saxon town walls as well as of Roman occupation.

The town is also the birthplace of Daniel Gooch; having served his apprenticeship at Robert Stephenson's works, he was only 21 years old when he was appointed Locomotive Superintendent of the Great

In this picture the late 19th-century skyline of Newcastle is dominated by the 15th-century tower and spire of St Nicholas' Cathedral and the imposing bulk of the castle keep.

Except for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the distance, this scene is very different today.

Three tall ships are visible; the one on the far left is just setting sail. The town relied on the sea for employment, and it was once an important rival of Holyhead for the Irish ferry.

Subsequently, a road was built linking The Strand with the end of High Street. The raised bank followed the Taw from Castle Quay and turned right to follow the Yeo to Braunton Bridge.

Almost at once something went wrong - there was no lack of teaching skills, but the managerial expertise needed was not there.

In the distance is the tower of the parish church, St Lawrence.

This photograph was probably taken from a window in one of the shops on St James' Street. In the foreground is the Old Red Lion.

It is said that Drummond was sitting under the great sycamore tree in front of the house when Jonson trudged up the path. Drummond met him with 'Welcome, welcome, royal Ben!'

Built on the site of the Old Rectory, the Basildon tractor plant was finally completed on 20 February 1964. It covered 60 acres of the 100-acre site, and had 1,360,000 square feet of buildings.

A few lorries of the period are parked on rough ground behind a hut; this makes a contrast with the full south-east outline of St Peter's Cathedral.

This view captures some of the domestic feel of the lower High Street beyond the shops nearer Market Square.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

It is mid-morning in the courtyard of the New Inn. Has the man on the stairway seen the infamous ghost of the New Inn?

The church was rebuilt in 1861 and the tower went up in 1873 at a cost of £3,500 in memory of Bishop Philpott, who is buried in the churchyard.

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

Thatched roofs, leaded windows, local stone and a profusion of creepers and roses, set amid lofty trees, make this scene an archetypal image of countryside tranquillity.

A few miles to the south of Nairn stands Cawdor Castle, one of Scotland's finest medieval buildings. It is famous for its association with Macbeth and the murder of Duncan.

Henry Mayhew descibes a typical dockside scene: 'The cooper is hammering at the casts on the quay; the chains of the cranes, loosed of their weight, rattle as they fly up; the ropes splash in the water

In the centre is the dome of the Grand Hotel, built in 1898 to the designs of Cecil Ogden, and dismissed by Pevsner as 'of no architectural value', perhaps an over-critical view.

Just to the north of the church, the buildings on the west side of the road take on a varied appearance, the most special being the Three Swans Hotel, which has its origins from at least the early 17th

This must be one of the smallest and one of the most recently created greens in the country.