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Situated near where Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire meet is the pretty village of Lechlade, with its fine array of Georgian houses.

The castle, situated about one and a half miles south of Killarney, is close to the shore of Lough Leane.

A small fishing boat sails out to the fishing grounds in St Austell Bay past the lighthouse on the end of the South Breakwater.

Up School Hill, northwards from Merriott, the sign of the Three Horseshoes can be seen in the distance.

Behind, in the basin, is one of the usual sights in the Docks in the 1890s - the masts of sailing ships.

Its surroundings are pleasant without being spectacular: 90% of Staffordshire is rural, and nowhere in the town, not even in the very centre, is one ever far from the countryside.

This 1908 view of the churchyard from the south shows the gates that once protected the dead from body snatchers.

This 1908 view of the churchyard from the south shows the gates that once protected the dead from body snatchers.

In those days railway companies were forbidden from owning passenger ships without Parliamentary approval, a fact not lost on the LB&SCR's arch-rival the London & South Eastern.

In between, there remained a triangle of small slum streets beginning at Castle Place.

Records of an iron and wire works here go back to the 16th century, and production continued until around the end the 19th century.

A church existed on this site at the time of William the Conqueror, and the Domesday survey lists its patron as Roger de Poictou.

In July 1333 Archibald, Lord Douglas led the Scottish army in a feint towards Bamburgh in the hopes of drawing the English away from Berwick which they were besieging.

Hartley sits on high ground, six miles from Dartford, and enjoys expansive prospects all around.

If you compare this photograph with the reality of the scene today, it would seem at first glance as if time has stood still here.

Once a main port on this part of the coast with important connections to Liverpool, this small picturesque harbour town is an attraction for sailors of a more leisurely kind these days.

We are in the extreme southern tip of the county: whilst Stanford Hall is in Leicestershire, the parish church and the village are in Northamptonshire.

It was converted to a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists by T S Lansdown of Swindon in 1869 - it could accommodate a congregation of 1,000.

The opulent car has just arrived through an impressive gateway out of view on the left, and has entered a courtyard reminiscent of Tudor times with domestic rather than military buildings.

The drive of the former Harris family home, which was built c1870, gave access to the Harris Welfare Association Woodlands Club House, which was established in the former woollen mill to the

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.

The Anchor Inn (left) is a solid sandstone building, and its contents have refreshed the inhabitants of Irby for over 100 years.

The entry for Southport in one 1921 guidebook states: 'on the once lonely shore has now developed a very attrac- tive seaside-resort and residential town, whose fine streets, notably Lord Street, challenge

The formidable 13th-century gatehouse of the castle, with four massive circular flanking towers and four portcullises in the entrance, stands on the site of a former Saxon fortress.