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The classical front has four Tuscan columns topped by wheat sheaves instead of urns. The redundant building was converted into a county library in 1968.

The Druids' Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

The most famous tree of Wyre Forest is perhaps the Whitty Pear, 50ft high, a descendant of the specimen presented by Robert Woodward of Arley Castle.

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tail- pole.The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.

The Druids’ Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

For his defence of Ogmore Castle against the Welsh, Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

Bucklers Hard and the Beaulieu River are now visited regularly by yachtsmen who are fond of the old anchorage.

The long main street of Dorchester probably established its present line at the time of the Romans, and has been used by travellers since.

This view shows the bridge over the Cam Beck at the top end of Ketttlewell, a charming village in the heart of Upper Wharfedale.

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

The cobbled surface is clearly visible with the rails of the horse tram curving away sharply to the left. The large scale of many of Belfast's buildings is also apparent.

A splendid variety of architecture, ranging from medieval through Georgian to Victorian, greets the visitor to Dorchester.

Also situated north of the town and at one time also called the Lions' Den, these sandstone caves were once a feature of The Plot, an area of common grazing land.

Thirteen years before this photograph of Sandhurst was taken, the village police station was completed in memory of some of Sandhurst's older residents.

East of Marlow, where the river bends south, Townsend's and Shaw's boatyards and their wharves were a focus of boating activity in the heyday of the late Victorian and Edwardian boating boom.

Roger de Berkeley, the first tenant after the Conquest, was probably responsible for the construction of the first castle on the site, and we know that Henry II was entertained here over Easter in 1121

The popularity of the north coast beaches and the advent of mass tourism led to the stretch of coastline between Rhyl and Colwyn Bay being almost totally occupied with caravan sites, amusement arcades,

This somewhat featureless shopping centre has developed to the north of the Tally Ho pub and Tally Ho corner, which can be seen as a multi-gabled vista stopper in this photograph.

This high-powered, very low frequency telegraph transmitter is capable of world-wide range. Erection of the masts commenced in 1924 on a site chosen by the Air Ministry and the War Office.

Above the cliffs we can just see the Park Hotel, built as a terrace of three houses, part of a larger development of North Cliff which never materialised.