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The Town Hall was designed by Christopher Kempster, who was probably advised by Sir Christopher Wren, as Kempster was one of the masons he used in rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666.

At the extreme end of the `ring` is the Ferry Boat Inn. The Ferry Boat claims to be one of the oldest inns in Britain.

The frontage of the Swan Hotel hides its 15th- and 16th-century origins.

Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.

Later this was to become the 'end of the line' for trams from Birmingham.

This street-name reminds us of Belfast the market town: the view looks from Arthur Square (another Chichester name).

The workaday appearance of the street shows how it had been overtaken by the success of the resort.

An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.

This five-storey, L-plan tower-house was built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in August 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar.

WHAT of Enfield's future? We have already seen that in the first years of the 21st century, redevelopment is probably going to be the by-word.

This view of the ruinous west front of John Bunyan's 'Palace Beautiful' atop the 'Hill of Difficulty' shows why historians are excited by the building.

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty. These, judging by the smartness of their dress (complete with pocket handkerchief), are clearly not fishermen.

Pontefract Castle has played more than its fair share in some of the murkier episodes in England's history.

The 'Giant's Grave' in St Andrew's churchyard is a collection of two badly-weathered 10th-century cross-shafts and four Norse 'hogback' tombstones.

West of Dorking up on the chalk and just inboard of the North Downs escarpment, and west of the valley cut by the River Mole, is Ranmore Common.

The main east-west axis of the Albert Park estate is a tree-lined avenue, Park Road.

This is the main shopping area of the town; the architecture matches the period of rapid development after the railway arrived.

By the 1950s the south front of Gisborough Hall was covered in Boston ivy; it still is today, and looks stunning in the autumn.

The enormous popularity of messing about on the River Thames during the Victorian era is demonstrated in this scene of the crowded lock at Molesey, just upstream from Hampton Court; it had been linked

The A50 bypass now divides the village from its castle, of which only the motte survives; the remainder was demolished in the later 12th century.

On the right of the photograph is the 15th-century God's House Tower, formerly the south-east gate of the old town and one of the earliest artillery fortifications in Europe.

One of the focal points of the scattered village of Winster, the Brown Horse is a well-known local hostelry.

The mansion and the church sit amid a park of over 200 acres, in an estate of more than 10,000 acres.

The church of St Peter and St Paul, another of the marshland churches, is located by the side of the A158 main road to Skegness - during the summer this is a very busy road indeed.