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Despite being an ancient settlement, Maltby was still little more than a village at the beginning of the 20th century. Then things changed.

In 1871 W Harrison, secretary of the Birmingham Gas Co, certainly did his stuff; he cooked the books and made off with £18,000.When the company was dissolved, £100 was left in the kitty for

This leafy suburb of Tunbridge Wells boasts a broad and spacious green, fringed by cottages and trees.

On the west bank of the Taw, this view shows the old road (left), and new one (right). The houses to the right are Ladysmith Villas, named after the second Boer War siege (1900). They still stand.

An indication of the popularity of this area as a resort can be seen from the shop (extreme right) which is Mugford's Holiday Wear.

The train from Belfast would get you to Larne and on your way to London with a total journey time of 13 hours. The same line brought you to the starting point of the wonderful Antrim Coast Road.

Broadstairs, a well-known resort on the Isle of Thanet between Margate and Ramsgate, retains its village atmosphere.

This wonderful view from the walls was taken before the onslaught of the motor car, and when gas lamps were still in place.

This must have been a rarefied atmosphere for clerics and scholars in a world only just recovering from the trauma of Britain's war with Germany.

As we walk down Northgate Street from the cross, and turn right by Debenhams, we will enter the relatively new area of Kings Square.

Any attacking force attempting to enter the bailey was faced with the prospect of having to run the gauntlet of defending fire from the keep's battlements.

A considerable transformation from the scene at the turn of the century, with the macadamised road surface, traffic lights and road islands now channelling the cars and lorries.

This was formerly the home of the late Alan Clark MP, author of the famous 'Diaries'.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

Standing majestically atop the White Cliffs, this fortress is known as the 'guardian of the gateway to England'. It was an important Iron Age site, and the Anglo-Saxons built the original structure.

These half-timbered houses, overlooked by the 15th-century church of St Mary the Virgin, were once homes for local tradesmen from the Jacobean Chilham Castle estate.

Cadnam is one of the best-known villages in the New Forest. Most people know it as being at the end of the M27 motorway where it joins the A31 - in a sense, it is the gateway to the forest.

Rows of stone cottages and rolling farmland characterise Brookhouse, which is close to Caton with Littledale and a popular retreat for commuters to Lancaster.

The women baked bread, washed clothes, used carved spoons made of sycamore wood (it did not stain), cared for children and eagerly awaited the weekly carrier's cart to replenish their stocks of candles

There is a record of a chapel here in about 1050, situated where Cove Lane meets Emesgate Lane.

It has been suggested that the Shrewsbury Arms is so called because it once belonged to the Earls of Shrewsbury. The church of St Mary Magdalene sits across the road.

Sitting as it does on the English-Welsh border, Oswestry was often attacked. The town therefore has few really old buildings - Llwyd Mansion is one of these, dating from 1604.

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

It is now part of the Manchester Metropolitan University, and it is still linked with the campus at Alsager, as well as with five other campus sites in the Manchester area.