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Centre left stands the Bear Hotel, a lovely old coaching inn dating back to 1432. The shop next door to it sold fishing tackle - fishing is one of the area's most popular pastimes.

The pump in the foreground, dating from 1796, is in what was the prison yard.

It surrounds a quadrangle, the roof of the oldest part, dated 1593, is just visible to the left.

On the right of this view is the Mercat Cross, which dates from 1686. It was built at a cost of £100, paid for out of guild wine funds.

Steeton was graced by two grand estates: High Hall, rebuilt in 1674, and Low Hall, dating from 1662 (now Steeton Hall Hotel and Restaurant).

The idea for Harlow New Town dates from the late 1940s. It was seen as a way to relieve some of the congestion in London.

Built in 1866 by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board to provide observations for the benefit of shipping, its records include a full set of observations dating from 1867.

Dating from 1838, it was built to seat more than a thousand, to cater for the growing parish. It was reduced in size in 1908 to seat 750.

To the south-west is another stone in the direction of the midwinter sunset, which is a far more useful calendar date for ancient agricultural communities.

St Michael's tower (right), which dates from the mid 15th century, is all that remains of the city centre church today. The rest was demolished in 1955.

Wheat-straw covered chalk clunch walls at Haydon Farm, and a long 1704-dated barn in Flemish-bond brickwork, stood beside a hayrick in the centre of the village.

Shipping had much declined by this date, and the quays are becoming derelict. The white daymark on the headland guided ships towards the harbour.

The chancel and south chapel date from the 14th century and the exceptionally tall tower was built about a century later.

It is one of the oldest buildings in the area, dating from the 16th-century, with five bays of original timbering including curved trusses and wind-braces as well as inglenook fireplaces and exposed beams

On the right the hard red brick pub, the Crown, is dated 1890 while beyond is the Feathers, a good 17th-century house, refronted in the 19th century.

Palace Green is a large, well-tended area between the castle and the cathedral, enclosed on both sides by a range of historic buildings dating from the 18th century.

Its establishment dates back to the foundation of the great seminary at Douai in France, which was founded in 1568 to supply Catholic missionaries to England during a period of Catholic repression

This view, along the Portsmouth Road, formerly the A3, shows the late Victorian expansion of Kingston past Surbiton.

There are several estate cottages with dates of 1902 and 1904. The cottages on the left have lost their gardens to road widening, but otherwise the street is very much recognisable today.

The tolbooth, with its projecting clock, is one of the most famous landmarks on the Royal Mile and dates from 1591. Note the poles used for drying washing.

The date stone states 1867, but completion was delayed by snow. The Wesleyans were the first to open a college in the Leeds area: at Headingley in 1868.

On the right is where the Great Fire of Biggleswade started in 1786, so many of the buildings are later than that date.

The scaffolding beyond the lamppost hides Lloyds Bank, which was being extended and restored at the time this photograph was taken (there are rainwater heads dated 1921).

A Norman castle had been built here by Baron Serlo de Burg, but the ruins date from the 14th century.