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Another view of the High Street, looking in the opposite direction. The ornate building on the left is no longer The Chippenham Co-operative Society, but a department store.

It is a typical busy summer's day at the Knap. A motor boat waits for passengers, and to recover skiffs abandoned by their occupants when it was time to bring them back.

At the height of the canal era, the Wharf was a bustling depot where up to ten large barges could load and unload.

Two hundred and thirty-five years before this photograph was taken, Samuel Pepys visited the town and ate 'very good troutes, eels and crayfish' at the Bear Hotel.

At the east end, Lower Close leads into Hook's Walk with its excellent brick and flint-built houses, many rendered and colour-washed. It leads to the curiously-named Gooseberry Garden Walk.

At this time, the buildings on the right are awaiting their fate - they were eventually pulled down. But they themselves had their origins in encroachment on the original larger medieval market place.

The deep, sheltered valleys of this part of the coast were at one time noted for their market gardens, which grew a variety of produce, but were most famous for their strawberries.

Rowing sports have always played a large part in the leisure activities of Bedford's citizens.

There is no minster at Yetminster, but it does offer a very attractive 15th century parish church, with some excellent brasses and carved roof bosses. Its bells are over 300 years old.

The village of Spaldwick lies at the centre of a medieval estate which included most of the neighbouring settlements. The church in the background is known as 'the cathedral of the valley'.

At very low tide submerged tree stumps, thought to date from c5,000 BC, were seen here. Fossilized hazelnuts have also been found here. The Amroth Arms is on the right.

The monument of 1903 commemorates 17 Suffolk Protestants who were burnt at Bury during the reign of Queen Mary. The ruins of the Charnel Chapel are between the two avenues.

The miniature railway at Saltburn delighted generations of young visitors to the town (and possibly older visitors!). In the foreground a proud father and his children enjoy the boating lake.

David I built a manor at Linlithgow, and next to it a church dedicated to St Michael. In 1301 Edward Longshanks set about rebuilding and heavily fortifying the palace.

Pronounced 'clibbery', Cleobury Mortimer is famous for the crooked spire of its church.

The first 'cricket week' at the College ground (it was not called a festival until 1906) was organised by James Lillywhite, the College coach, in 1878, and cost £120 to stage.

Lose Hill, at 1,563ft, is the eastern extremity of a fine ridge which runs from Mam Tor.

Travelling north along the straight road from Brockenhurst brings the traveller to Lyndhurst, an ideal centre for exploring the northern edges of the great forest.

The ancient, ivy-covered Black Swan Hotel dominates this view of The Square at Helmsley, the attractive castle-crowned capital of the North York Moors National Park.

Cattle graze the green outside the Punch Bowl Inn at Low Row in Swaledale.

The mill pond at Ickham, on the east bank of the Little Stour, is crossed by this seemingly fragile footbridge whose supporting piles serve as a useful trap for waterweeds and other detritus before the

This photograph was taken during the heyday of mass tourism. The tea house, which still functions today as a delightful cafe-restaurant, stands at the near end of the beach.

The narrowness of the thoroughfare must have posed problems for the driver of the horse-drawn wagon seen halted outside the barn at the end.

But it is her gnarled yew trees that claim the greatest age: this huge churchyard yew is said to date back at least to the time of King Harold.