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Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.

Stonehenge is the most well-known stone circle in the world, and this view is possibly one of the most remembered and famous.

The shop extension filled with shoes and boots is now filled with all manner of things for pets. On the other side of the road was a garage, which is now the Job Centre and the Sue Ryder shop.

Horley is on the old main London to Brighton road before it was diverted around the area of new Gatwick airport. Single and two-horse traps wait by the roadside.

The Old Priory Café, the gabled building on the left, now a picture gallery, has a 17th-century façade and a medieval jettied front with pargetting (plaster designs).

Grange-in-Borrowdale was originally founded as an outlying settlement from the medieval monastery of Furness Abbey. It is a popular centre for fell walkers. The peak of High Spy is in the background.

Gazing over the town of Windsor stands the imposing figure of Queen Victoria, depicted here two years before her Diamond Jubilee in 1897.

Founded in 1823, this building, at the foot of The Mound, housed a statue gallery when this picture was taken. There was also a collection of casts that was open only to art students.

The ornate Victorian shop fronts of Dawson's and the branch of the Enfield Co-operative store, on the right, with their elegant lanterns, are in contrast to the stern brick frontages across the

A line of parked cars, and a frozen foods van making a delivery, marks this mid-summer morning scene along the shopping centre of the village which, at the time, was already rapidly expanding.

The creators of the impressive neo-Jacobean panelling probably never expected that it would one day be partnered with a set of utilitarian chairs that would look more at home in a village

Long shadows indicate the end of a pleasurable day's sailing from this well-known beach.

Many of the buildings we see here had recently been built in the third and fourth quarters of the 19th century as the town grew on the prosperity brought to the locality by visitors.

The splendid Minster dominates the town of Wimborne, though there are many other buildings worth seeking out.

As part of the agreement, the magnificent drive and avenue of limes were to be preserved 'for ever and a day'.

This area was part of a reconstruction scheme in the 1790s. The statues of Romans and the balustrade to the right were added in 1897, along with a colonnade around the Roman baths below.

Without doubt, Bluntisham's most famous daughter was the novellist Dorothy L Sayers, creator of the famous detective Lord Peter Wimsey.

The pinnacled Victorian Parish Church of St John, Cragg Vale, with its crowded graveyard, looks down the isolated, wooded valley where the coiners once operated, far from the eyes of the law and authority

For casualties, the Pitsea Health Centre was held at Pitsea School, and was one of just three for Basildon residents of the 1950s; the others were in Craylands, Timberlog Lane, and Florence Road, Laindon

A further view of Sackville Street, taken from the west side. Sackville (O'Connell) Street was, and is, one of Dublin's main thoroughfares.

The mill stands on the River Dochart. Not far away is the ruined Breadalbane stronghold of Finlarig Castle. One of its more interesting features is what is thought to be an ancient beheading pit.

This is a busy scene, with thousands of holidaymakers on the beach. The western shelter has now been completed, and work on the finishing of the promenade and the eastern shelter is under way.

A late 19th-century advertisment for the George Hotel reads: 'This house, being in the centre of the picturesque scenery of Pangbourne, affords every accommodation for tourists, boating parties or anglers

The craggy, steep but captivating coastline of the area is amply demonstrated in this view.