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The siege during the Civil War took its toll, and now only the west front and part of the nave survive.

In this view, looking eastwards over the gardens, Hove's famous Lawns are clearly visible, and Brighton's West Pier can be seen.

Harnham Bridge crossed the Hampshire Avon just south of Salisbury between the twin hamlets of East and West Harnham. The former was a parish in its own right.

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

Avonmouth was used by the Imperial Direct West India Mail Service Co, whose ships sported white hulls and yellow funnels.

In 1965 the birds still sang in the Town Hall gardens, and although relatively noisy, it was an extremely pleasant place to sit and mull over the fortunes of the day.

York was a military centre, and over 1,000 men were stationed here when the barracks were built. They had their own hospital and a soldiers' institute.

The chapel is on the left with the school quadrangle and associated buildings in the middle distance.

All Saints' Church is an interesting one, with Anglo-Saxon 'long and short work' quoins to the nave and an Anglo-Saxon tower with an elaborate Norman west doorway and arcading.

Victorian concert party enclosures progressed to concrete shelters and rooftop walkways in the 1950s.

We are now standing in a position to the east of the Cross and are looking towards West Street, with Church Hill on the immediate right of the pantiled lean-to building and the Star Inn

Further along the High Street, we see the Black Bull (left) with the White Lion in the distance. The Black Bull opened in 1687, and was altered in the 18th century.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

Dobson restored the chancel and nave and added a north aisle and the west tower. A porch was added in 1844.

A view taken from the west entrance, looking straight down the nave to the east window. St Patrick's is the largest church in Ireland, and this picture demonstrates its spacious proportions.

There could not be anywhere more northern-sounding than Mytholmroyd, the woollen village crammed into the bottom of the Calder Valley west of Halifax.

Built in 1870, this was one of the many West Yorkshire institutes to offer working craftsmen the opportunity to study new skills and learn more about the world.

This view on the Stainby Road, with the houses on the left fronting onto the High Street, which runs left from the signpost, hardly does justice to this large and attractive village in whose part-Norman

Wares from the small shop on the right spill out onto the pavement, and among other commodities it advertises petrol! A garage stands on the left with a hose stretching out towards the road.

This view, taken from the north-west angle of St Wistan's churchyard, shows an uncomfortable blend of small scale 18th- and 19th-century cottages with the more angular, bland 20th-century buildings.

In 1886 Mevagissey landed 255,000 hundredweight of fish, the greatest quantity of any port in the west. The twin harbours offered vessels safe protection from storms.

Windmill Hill leads up from the site of the old West Gate, demolished at the start of the 19th century but remembered in the pub of the same name.

The Gardens have two more claims to fame: they became the home of Glamorgan County Cricket Club, and much earlier, in September 1891, they had staged Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Budleigh Salterton stands to the west of the silted estuary of the River Otter. Its own beach is sandless and full of large pebbles, which seem to sing as the tides play across them.