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Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

The population of Cheltenham grew from three thousand in 1801 to over thirteen thousand just twenty years later; this was a sure sign of Cheltenham's success as a spa town and residential centre.

The elegant Georgian coaching inn stands in the centre of town. An almost complete lack of traffic is quite amazing, considering that this road is the main A6 trunk road between Derby and Manchester.

Folkestone has been a channel port since Saxon times, and France is visible from here on clear days. The Old Town is based around the steep narrow streets of the fishing harbour.

John Keats wrote the first lines of 'Endymion' - 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' - nearby, and the Regency architect John Nash designed the town square and the Guildhall.

To the right of this photograph is the Sheldonian Theatre, designed by Christopher Wren and opened in 1669.

On the left of the picture is the long 900-ft bridge of sixteen arches, and on the opposite bank is the Town Arms. To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.

This beautiful hilly country, now owned by the Duke of Westminster, was part of Old Fylde when it stretched as far as Preston.

The word 'burgage' is an old legal term referring to a plot of land in a town for which a tenant paid a yearly rent in money or service to the landlord.

The Woodstock, constructed in the 1930s, continues to flourish today as it clearly did when this photograph was taken with these cars parked in the forecourt, although the frontage of the pub has since

Hired deckchairs occupy much of the space on the beach. Although many of the older people enjoying the sun are well wrapped up, the boy on the right digs happily without a shirt.

A major find, with 130 graves, the dig was supervised by a Mr Reddie Mallet and one of the diggers was the Rev Sabine Baring-Gould, writer of 'Onward Christian Soldiers'.

The Royal Navy may well have recruited in Polperro, but here, as with the rest of Cornwall, they took only willing recruits.

In 1785, there seems to have been a case of riotous assembly at Lasham, including the theft of the maypole!

We have turned round, and are now seeing the London Road at the end of the High Street.

The house on the left was (and still is) Hallow's post office.

On the left is the sombre but reassuringly secure frontage of the Capital and Counties Bank.

This is a much more civilised image of Walberswick. The pub and the tea room (right) point to the village's new role.

A contrast of building styles greets the eye as Late Victorian Queen Anne meets neo- Georgian from the 1920s, and early 1950s severity jostles with 1930s mock- Tudor on the left.

East Street and West treet form part of the old coaching route between Exeter and Dorchester.

Nowadays the greater part of Poole's population lives in the suburbs that have sprawled across the heathlands towards Bournemouth and Wimborne; but when this picture was taken, the residents mostly

Grange Farm was offered on the market as building land in 1935, but it was purchased in 1938 by the London Parochial Charities as a campsite for the children of families living in the East End of London

Briery Cave is a small example of a feature found all along the Exmoor coast, collapsed caves; these are known locally as `guts`.

On the green is the war memorial to the fallen of the First World War which was unveiled with due ceremony by Lord Leicester in the 1920s.