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The photograph is dominated by a brick and stone building typical of its turn-of-the-century date, but in this southern sector of the town earlier houses are to be found, including a stone-faced building

This idyllic picture of the Brixham fishing fleet gives some idea of just how much the fishing industry dominated the town for hundreds of years.

Old Laleham stands back from the reaches of the Thames, and the early boating fraternity used to enjoy catching glimpses of it from the water.

Known today for its massive castle (begun in 1285), one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly

This view shows the alteration of the window and roofline of the central porch. The palace is Maidstone's oldest building, originally Norman, but substantially rebuilt in the 14th century.

The name of this inn is the Hero, after the most famous inhabitant of the Burnhams: Horatio Nelson, born in the rectory of nearby Burnham Thorpe, and later to become England's greatest admiral, and victor

Eype village is a quarter of a mile inland from the seashore, in a combe below the rolling Dorset downlands.

Lower Bentham stands 15 miles east of Lancaster on the slopes of the Pennines.

Middlesmoor is one of the highest villages in Nidderdale, enjoying fine views down the dale, especially from the churchyard of St Chad's parish church.

The isolated outlier of Latrigg (1,203 ft) is an easy stroll from Keswick; it gives a grandstand view of the 'capital' of the northern Lakes.

On the top of the hill are the remains of Oldbury Castle (an Iron Age fort) and the striking Lansdowne Monument erected in 1845 to the memory of an ancestor of a local landowner.

Fortunately this period was also to see the devel- opment of an interest in industrial archaeology, and efforts were made to save not only the bridge but other sites of interest locally.

He was the mighty Fish Lizard, or Icthyosaurus. Whatever caused his death can only be guessed at. But his corpse was eventually covered and compressed by mud and sand.

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).

The cries of traders echo through the expansive square, planned by Inigo Jones.The scene has been described by a contemporary guidebook: ‘All night long the rumble of heavy wagons seldom ceases, and

Mansion House, the lavish building on the left, has been the official residence of the Lord Mayor for two centuries. It was built by George Dance on the site of the old stocks market.

An evocative view from the north-east of the part of the town immediately below the castle and the impressive castle and prison itself.

These gardens are at the rear of Ayscoughfee Hall, which is now in the process of being restored. The building is partly used as the Spalding Tourist Office.

Stanmore, a once picturesque village, has now lost much of its character, apart from one or two buildings; these include a superb but well-disguised hall house of around 1500 in Church Road.

The town clusters around the stronghold, clinging to the steep slopes in a series of steeply inclined roads. Harlech Castle is the very image of a mediaeval stronghold.

This is the chief Mersey bathing-place, which at once gains and loses by its proximity to the great commercial city of Liverpool.

Since the opening of the railway, Swanage has vastly increased in favour as a watering-place; it is situated in a beautiful bay, and commands a glorious prospect of down and sea and cliff.

A famous resident of Pinner was Horatia Ward, the illegitimate daughter of Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton.

Situated west of the Concert Bowl, the rose gardens were laid out in the late 1920s-early 1930s on the site of a former maze.