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The building here housing the Mitre Hotel in King Street was, in 1826, the birthplace of Penrith's Crimea War hero Trooper William Pearson.

Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house.

Amongst other things, this spelt the end of the town's two highly-regarded grammar-technical schools, Fryerns and Barstable.

The cottages on the right were once a farmhouse - it was divided at the time of the enclosures. Many of the windows have early 19th-century leaded lights.

The Unicorn Inn stands beside the road that crosses the water meadows of the Granta and takes us to Grantchester. It was extended in the 1930s when the suburbs of Cambridge extended into Trumpington.

This is an excellent view of the fascinating shop front of 'J Cooper - Groceries and Provisions', with Mr Cooper's delivery van parked outside.

The junction of High Street and School Hill is still recognisable, though the shop on the left-hand corner is now an estate agents and the building is tile-hung.

With a little imagination, we can see the noble profile of a lion`s head on the lovely riverside walk through Dovedale.

The large house on the left has been built on South Back Way with a pleasant southerly aspect and a spacious garden.

A delivery van is parked outside the grocer's shop in the Main Street of the small cul-de-sac village of Haverigg.

An empty village street in Silecroft, a small settlement at the foot of Black Combe, at 1,970ft the southernmost of the major Lake District hills and a fine viewpoint across the Irish Sea.

The young woman on the right needs her parasol, because Castle Walk is a south-facing sun trap. A section of this part of Castle Walk has recently been fenced against the sheer drop.

One ex-member recalls completing the two-mile swim from the Breakwater in 1927 in 58 minutes and two thirds of a second. Her sister held the record of 48 minutes.

The earliest record of a ferry here dates from 1337. In 1832 a consortium led by the Earl of Morley established the first steam ferry.

The older Saxon church of Holy Trinity then dominated the harbour scenery. The present church was begun at the end of the 11th century by the Norman cleric Roger Flambard.

Standing high in the Pennines on Yorkshire's border with Lancashire, Ripponden has been an important settlement on the River Ryburn, but made its name from the wool trade in the 19th century and before

This view captures the flavour of old Hailsham, nicknamed The String Town for its Victorian industries of sack, rope and twine manufacture.

Lynn has two market places, holding markets on different days of the week. The large stone building is the Corn Exchange, built in 1854: Ceres, the goddess of plenty, stands at the top.

This establishment was one of a number of interesting old hostelries still standing. Another was the thatched-roofed Black Horse.

Chideock remains an agricultural centre, in spite of its newer dependence on tourism. This scene shows how little change there was in the quieter rural way of life until well into the 20th century.

There is a typical wall-mounted gas lamp of the time.

Designed by James Gibbs, it is the meeting place of the governing body of the University, and the place where degrees are conferred. The impressive King's College Chapel is to the left.

One hopes that the Express parcel service fared better than the shop's window advertising, which suffers from a number of missing letters!

It is some sixty years after photograph No 37307, and while the fabric, and indeed usage, of the buildings remains pretty much the same, gas lamps have given way to electric street lights and power lines