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At this time Ormskirk was a busy little town of around 6,500 people. On market days the favourite places for a tipple were the Wheatsheaf, the Talbot and the King's Arms.

Dylan Thomas tarried awhile in Mousehole and married his sweetheart Caitlin at Penzance Register Office in 1937. He described Mousehole as 'the loveliest village in England'. Who can argue with that?

Salt springs were discovered at Stoke Prior in 1828, and were developed by the Georgian entrepreneur John Corbett. The canal was used to facilitate the transportation of salt all around Britain.

This photograph shows Bridge Street in the centre of Caversham, at the point where it crosses the Thames.

Swans arrived at the lake when residents began to feed them, along with ducks and seabirds. Coloured lamps are strung on wires around the lake as part of the town's illuminations.

A knife grinder is seen at work in this atmospheric picture of a deserted Hartfield. It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the River Medway.

This typical Broad scene shows sailing and fishing going on, with a wind-pump in the background.

The main crossroads at Hindhead, with the A3 London to Portsmouth Road descending the hill, is still recognisable today although the delightful and quaint cupola surmounting the post office on the corner

Here we see Newquay at the beginning of the building boom which was to turn Narrowcliff into the largest concentration of hotel rooms in the county.

Lawrence of Arabia rests in the little cemetery at Moreton, for his cottage of Clouds Hill is within the parish. He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident on the road leading north from Bovington Camp.

This photograph shows the terminus for the day trips to London by bus.

There are plenty of rowing boats for visitors at the Bowness Boat Station in this photograph, taken just six years after No 20451.

Canvas-sailed boats are tied up at the pier; this was the time when Grange was becoming a popular seaside resort, famed as an escape from industrial Lancashire and for its bracing air and equable climate

The east walk of the cloisters were rebuilt first after the 1272 fire, and were completed by 1314.

This deceptively simple photograph captures the spirit of Moore in 1955: the road curving out of the village; the essential Post Office; and an absence of menfolk, who were probably hard at work on the

Ryde is decorated here for its famous carnival held always at the beginning of September.

The east walk of the cloisters were rebuilt first after the 1272 fire, and were completed by 1314.

The shallow ford at Darnholm, a tiny hamlet just up the road from Goathland. For decades the place has been a favourite with those who like nothing better than to 'bimble around' by the waters edge.

This view was taken from the building at the very end of Morton Crescent.

Helensburgh was described as 'a favourite watering place situated at the mouth of the Gareloch, laid out with the mathematical regularity of an American city'.

An excursion steamer waits at the pier. The loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.

The busy river: this view shows both its commercial and leisure aspects. A barge loads at the quay, pleasure boats take trippers for a cruise.

During the Second World War, an anti-submarine boom ran across the river from Cloch Point to the Gantocks.