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Its foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales in May 1921, and the memorial was unveiled by the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall before a huge crowd on 30 October 1921.

Its pretty houses grouped around a square by the castle gates lend it a timeless air.

The town of Shrewsbury is almost completely encircled by the River Severn.

Its west window was designed by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones.

The city's horse-drawn omnibuses wre operated by the London General Company. This Brixton Church to Charing Cross service was identified by its green coachwork.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile- hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

Rebuilt by the Tudors and again by the Victorians, it contains interesting relics of its history.

After years of fundraising initiated by the 'Western Mail' newspaper a war memorial was finally constructed in Cathays Park's Queen Alexandra Gardens.

Aylsham Market Place is part of the estate of Blickling Hall, two miles to the west, which was at one time owned by the Boleyn family.

The flower beds and war memorial have now been replaced by the roundabout and pedestrian subway and the first houses in Park End Road have been replaced by the extension to the Town Hall.

Built in 1580 by the Nottage family, this was originally a fulling mill, though it was being used for corn by the 19th century.

Founded by the Romans, where Watling Street bridged the Medway, Rochester has been important for nearly 2,000 years. The cathedral, founded in AD 604, is second only to Canterbury in age.

hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', was seduced and bigamously married by the

Behind it is Clare House Pier, with the end of the Congregational church visible by the trees. At the extreme right of the picture we can just see Bayley Lane Pier.

Abingdon's Market Place is an ancient space, probably established at the gates of Abingdon Abbey by the year 1000, some years after AD954 when the Anglo-Saxon abbey had been re-founded by St Ethelwold

By the end of the Victorian period, band concerts were a popular form of entertainment at most resorts.

In photograph 79501, right, we can see the white scar of the Brockham limeworks, worked at first by the Brockham Brick Company Ltd, and later by the Brockham Limes & Hearthstone Company Ltd.

The centre was to be managed by the Potter Street Residents and Community Association. Landlord and tenant matters were to be dealt with by the residents' committee.

The ancient village of Lancing, now by-passed by the A27, is swallowed up by suburban sprawl which is continuous south to the sea.

Although it had fallen into disrepair by the time of the Civil War, the castle was then refortified; it changed hands a couple of times during the war, and was finally slighted in 1645.

It was largely financed by the Duke of Buccleuch and the Duke of Devonshire. In 1866 the churchwardens, headed by James Ramsden, organised the town's voluntary fire brigade.

By the early 1960s memories of Maindy Stadium's relatively inauspicious opening in 1951 and, in particular, its poor running track surface were all but banished.

St Peter's was originally a chapel of ease to Cartmel Priory, and was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 30 June 1745.

Led by the fiddle-player on the right, and probably lubricated by the pub behind him, Morris dancers perform on the village green in the year that ended post-war rationing.