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A relaxed tea is enjoyed on the sunlit dappled lawns of the Surrey Trust House hotel by these patrons of what would eventually become one of the Trust House Forte chain of establishments.

This is the village of Sandbank on the western side of Holy Loch. On the far side are the houses of Kilmun and the heights of Stronchullin Hill, Beinn Ruadh and Creachan Mor.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family. The central hall is open to the roof beams.

The spacious northern end of the High Street, with its central water garden and carefully tended flowerbeds, marks the area where the market hall stood until 1853.

Archaeological discoveries over the last couple of years may push the date of the area's habitation back further.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The earliest castle here is thought to have been built by Bernard de Baliol; it consisted of a ringwork with wooden palisading protected by an outer ditch defence.

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

Frith's photographers visited Aldeburgh's High Street over a period of sixty years; their photographs, arranged here in chronological order, are a potent record of changing times, the advance of the

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The parish church of St Peter, which dates from before 1222, was built on the site of part of the old St John's Chapel at the side of the Roman Akeman Street.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of new streets were built following the grid pattern of the mediaeval town.

Harrogate is one of the oldest of England's spa towns: its mineral springs were discovered in the 16th century.

Situated six miles south-east of Mold, Caergwrle is a small castle comprising the ruins of three round towers and a polygonal turret; it was captured and destroyed in 1282.

The village, which in parochial terms was originally bracketed together with Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, which share the mother church of St Wilfred, lies some eight miles to the south

A hooded bathchair stands before the Victorian buildings and the bronze statue of William Harvey, a 16th-century native of the town; he achieved renown for his work in discovering the fact that blood

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career. It was erected five years after the general's death.

The fake timbering was a slightly ridiculous whim of the Borough Council in 1928.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

The photograph is of the War Memorial to the dead of both World Wars sited on the original Stopsley village green.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.The central hall is open to the roof beams.A Tudor extension was added to the west

The Lookout at the summit of Box Hill is due to the generosity of Mr Leopold Salomons of Norbury Park.

This view of the northern extremity of the borough is from a meadow on the west side of the River Lim.