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The village is said to have begun as the result of a shipwreck when survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.

A much busier view of the same scene some forty years after photograph No 60881.

Ilfracombe's growth was helped by the building of the Barnstaple turnpike and a new pier, but neglect of other amenities led to a cholera epidemic, which swept the town in 1849.

One of the country's largest parish churches, the abbey was founded in the 8th century, and refounded in 1091. Its great Norman tower is 132 feet high and 46 feet square, and dates from 1150.

This view shows the fortified appearance of the west front.

This modest building of red brick is attributed to T H Rushworth and was built in about 1864. The windows are 13th-century and show a variety of designs in two-bay arcades.

According to Nikolaus Pevsner, the original design was spoilt by the addition of an arched window to the west of the Venetian windows, and the small west tower.

Market Harborough's tribute to the fallen occupies pride of place in The Square, originally called the Sheep Market, which lies at the southern end of the market place.

To the right of the photograph is a row of uninteresting 19th/20th-century houses; to the left, and of an earlier era, is a three-story, three-bay brick farmhouse, so common in Leicestershire villages.

It was out of this college that Leeds university was established in 1904. Leeds Mechanics' Institute was also noted for its high standards.

Since the 18th century, the town has been a centre for the brewing of beer. The breweries used the Wharfe to bring in raw materials and transport finished products.

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.

Children once played on this old railway engine, but today this local landmark is a sad, neglected relic, left over from the great days of steam travel.

With rows of charming buildings and the River Nene flowing on three sides of it, Oundle has often been described as Northamptonshire's most delightful town.

On the right is the former Coffee Tavern in a building dated 1710, and beyond that the side roof of The Woolpack, its building dated 1714.

The Buttercross is to be found in the centre of the village market place. The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it.

The Duke of Bridgewater has been called 'the parent and father' of our canal system.

By the close of the century, the town had attracted many of the wealthiest industrialists and shipping magnates intent on escaping an overcrowded Cardiff.

The carving exudes an almost barbaric air: the capitals are full of curi- ous foliage inhabited by mythical winged creatures, writhing figures and animals, and the arches are a profusion of geometric

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

Its 360- acres of open green space were called by William Pitt ‘the lung of London’.

When it was completed in 1794, St Peter's Church was on the very edge of the built-up area of the town.

Smithill's Hall occupies a site where, according to tradition, a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin was consecrated in AD793 and the wandering court of King Egbert, father of Alfred the Great, was

In the mid-1950s Royston still appears to be a place of cloth caps and head-scarves, and apart from a handful of little differences we could just as easily be looking at Royston in the mid-1930s.