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Fifteen children have been neatly assembled by the photographer in front of the brick and half-timbered cottages that comprised this small village – it was originally called Clandon Abbots.

A yacht in full sail races past a well-known landmark on the lower Bure, pulling its dinghy behind. A motor cruiser chugs its way along the north bank.

Stand across the road, roughly in the spot where this picture was taken, and you will see that little has changed, apart from a few more trees, some road signs and plenty of traffic.

Beyond the approaching car, is part of the tall gable wall of the Stanley Works, which was still functioning as a boot and shoe factory in the1950s.

The railings have gone, as have the brick wall and the trees behind it. The shop under the white blind is now named Something Fishy.

This view of Cottesmore is typical of Rutland's visual feast of limestone and ironstone villages, set in a rolling, spired landscape of hedges and walls which the hunt can, in the main, take in its stride

The whipping post has iron manacles of three different sizes to fit all comers!

The Bell and Crown inn is now called the Cloisters; Gibbs Mew was the main Salisbury brewery, now sadly no longer with us.

There is safe bathing for children at high tide, protected from the open sea and its waves, behind the North Wall of the harbour.

The Pilot's Pier light sits on a long promontory extending from the sea wall, and cargo shipping and the associated tug boats pass by it on their way in and out of the port.

This area of Malmesbury was once called the Sheep Fair; it is in the parish of Westport, which by the late 19th century became a civil parish of westport St Mary Within.

The boundary walls on the left are in Blue Lias rubble stone left unpainted, while the lean-to at the left of Manor Cottage behind the huntsman has its rubble thickly limewashed.

Note the stone mounting block by the wall.

The Local Board have expended £14,000 on a sea-wall and fine esplanade, and the pier, 1,000 feet in length, cost £5,000.

Scarborough Castle, on the skyline, once stood 100 ft tall, with walls 12 ft thick; the keep was positioned in such a way so as to command the approach to the causeway leading to the castle.

Following the demolition of Shipley Old Hall in Kirkgate, parts of the building - a wall, water chutes and a roof truss - were re-erected in this park.

The grammar school moved out of its old buildings (now the Town Hall) to a new twenty-acre site set in fields north of St Peter's church in 1891.

On the wall is a bubble gum machine, once a popular feature of the frontage of every village store in the country.

It is a quirky building in leaded light vernacular style, and the boundary wall has milestones set in giving distances to Edinburgh, London and York.

The tiny flint-walled church of St Mary was rebuilt c1135, and is one of the smallest in the county. It is only 60ft long, and consists of a nave and a lower chancel.

This was the main exit from the walled city of York. Bootham Bar was built on the site of the Roman gate, and probably much of the stone was re-used.

All else survives except the shop-in-a-shed. This is the frantically busy A330 and the wall on the right, to Holyport Lodge, has been moved back for road widening.

However, none of the buildings survive, although the dock walls and the entrance abutments in the distance remain.

Bronze plaques on the adjacent walls carry more than 3000 names.