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The front of the chapel has been redeveloped; it now stands back from the road and provides pleasant housing.

Weeping willows overhang the village pond and its coop for the ornamental waterfowl; they lie at the heart of a village whose history stretches back to Roman times.

The foreground of this view is now entirely obscured by trees and hedging. The railway line is no longer visible.

The lorry at the head of the ferry queue is probably taking empties back to the Plymouth Brewery near Halfpenny Bridge in Stonehouse.

The Friary Courtyard c1960 All is quiet except for a friar crossing the courtyard.

The chancel was extensively rebuilt in the latter part of the 19th century, but the rest is considerably older, including the timber-framed porch, which dates back to late medieval times.

The chancel was extensively rebuilt in the latter part of the 19th century, but the rest is considerably older, including the timber- framed porch, which dates back to late medieval times.

Dating back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival.

Duntisbourne Abbots was once the property of the Abbots of Gloucester; it is the northernmost of a string of villages lining the River Dunt.

This photograph gives an excellent view of the top of one of the stairways leading to Chester's famous Rows (in the bottom right corner of the photograph).

Thurlestone takes its name from a holed, or thirled, rock just out at sea in Bigbury Bay, which was mentioned in a Saxon charter way back in 845.

Laleham's charming parish church has a tower dating back to 1732; it has been altered somewhat since this photograph was taken.

Bovington Camp dates back to the First World War, and is the home of the Royal Armoured Corps. The surrounding heathland is heavily used for tank training.

We are looking eastwards back down the street. The centre house with two-storeyed mullion windows is 16th-century. Note the excellent thatch.

The early use of bathing machines made Weymouth a popular resort for sea bathing, and the town has never looked back.

The line of beach-huts makes a striking background to this picture of a father and son sea fishing from the pebbly beach.

Highcliffe Castle was once one of the grandest stately homes in southern England. Restoration is bringing it back to its former glory.

They succeeded - the first white men to do so - but three out of the four men, including Burke and Wills, died of starvation on the way back.

Just visible on the right, peeping through the trees, is Torre Abbey, home of the Cary family for 300 years.

All Saints' church, admired for its brick tower, has a nave dating back to the 12th century.

Weymouth owes its origins as a favourite resort to the patronage of George III and of the rest of fashionable Georgian society, who travelled to the town to take up the new 'cure' of sea bathing.

Considered to be the best medieval hall in the country after Westminster Hall, the Great Hall dates back to the early 13th century and includes fine arcade piers of Purbeck marble.

There are various family portraits inside the castle, some of them dating back to the Wars of the Roses.

The Manor House C1960 The 16th-century half-timbered Manor House in Vyne Road fronts directly onto the road, so that its striking architecture, including carved bargeboards on the gables, can