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The village of Hinderwell lies between Easington and Runswick Bay. Here, in this delightful view of 1929, we see an early motorcar outside the Rectory.

Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury.

At the centre of this photograph lies the Norman tower of Oxford Castle. Within its precincts lie a Saxon mound and a Norman crypt.

The castle was built in 1539, and came under the control of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. In 1648 the castle was captured by Colonel Nathaniel Rich for Parliament.

This elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

The Town Hall stands on the left of this photograph, which was taken from outside the church and looking down Highbridge Street.

New housing developments are suggestive of more to come, which they certainly did.

The parish church is at the top of the street, out of camera shot.This is also an area of the town known as Petty France because, along with Ashbourne in Derbyshire, Leek was used to house French

Par Green begins to look narrower and congested with the addition of more cars, wandering pedestrians and a white line in the road.

Deck chairs still provided the main form of seating. The shelters remain unchanged.

The old industrial town of Stourbridge owes some of its fortunes to the European glass- blowers who settled here in Elizabethan times, founding an industry which has endured.

This truncated church is all that remains of the great abbey that once stood on this site.

These detached houses are part of the Finches development, with no trace of the original house remaining.

This is a splendid view of the terraces and their fine sea view. A sign in the centre left of the picture reads - 'Jones's Hotels and Cafés'.

The tower stands out because of its unique design of an unusual octagonal shingled spire. In 1853 the great-grandparents of Queen Elizabeth II married here.

A sextet of non-commissioned officers from the 2nd Infantry Brigade adopt a casual pose for the photographer amid the gorse bushes and sparse clumps of grass outside the Sergeants Mess at this camp on

One of the most distinctive features of Brompton Barracks is this very unusual variation of more common equestrian statues, with General Gordon, mounted on a richly caparisoned camel.

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

Not part of Trinity College, but a college in its own right, Trinity Hall was founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.

This is one of the most popular of the Broadland river inns, equally accessible by road or river.

The ancient art of the thatcher has been caught in this interesting photograph. Many Essex villages have fine examples of thatched buildings.

Most of the islanders at that time were extremely poor, and like the inhabitants of other coastal areas saw smuggling as a way of augmenting their poverty-stricken existence.

The clock was a bequest to the town by William Thomas Sim, a retired local grocer, civic leader and philanthropist, who died in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine.

A magnificent view of the 68ft high nave at Christchurch. On the north side the walls are about two feet out of true because of subsidence and the collapse of the south walls in 1569.