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This is the view that Daventrians saw of the BBC station.

Madeira Walk was hewn out of chalk. The work began in 1892.

Arrested during the persecution of Protestants that followed Mary Tudor's accession to the throne, Hooper was held in custody for seventeen months before the law to burn heretics was passed.

Begun in 1883, the Manchester Ship Canal was a major civil engineering project of the Victorian age.

Once the property of the priors of Durham, the fulling mill was once known as the Jesus Mill; it now houses the Durham University Museum of Archaeology.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

In 1929 the council negotiated the purchase, at a very reasonable figure, of a large area of land owned by the Fleming family, who were the patrons of North Stoneham, and it was named Fleming Park.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, but it fell into decline with the development of steam trawlers, which tended

Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.

Battenhall lies off London Road and was first recorded in Norman times, when the Poer family held the manor for the annual rent of one lamprey.

However this may have inhibited the design of the two floors of residential apartments - though not the quality of their fittings. The top floor of the keep was primarily a fighting platform.

There has been a fortification of one sort or another at Inverness since the time of King Brude in the 6th century.

By 1900 some of the College's austerity had been softened by creeper, but it still laboured under the cumbersome name of the Oxford Diocesan Training College for School Masters.

By 1960, the pedestrian crossing over Westgate had been moved to its present position, in the foreground of this view.

No 11, selling boots and shoes, together with Lipton's teas (left), was the shop of clothier Harry Lane. No 12 was another tailor, Sidney Wellman (centre left).

St Oswald's church at the top of this ravine used to be on the edge of the East Riding.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green, seen here in the gentle post-war years. This stretch of road has a history all of its own.

The cathedral is accepted as being one of the most beautiful buildings in Europe; it dominates the uphill area of the city and its surrounding buildings.

Paddle steamers provided pleasure trips and a bus service of sorts out to the coastal ports of Harwich and Felixstowe.

Sir Bourchier Palk Wrey, Lord of the Manor, had to obtain a £10,000 loan and a special Act of Parliament for the building of the Promenade Pier, which was opened on 15 May 1873.

This dramatic statue of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex, occupies a prominent site in Broadway.

Dittisham is one of the larger villages along the steeply wooded banks of the romantic Dart estuary. A foot ferry takes passengers across the river to Greenway, once the home of Dame Agatha Christie.

This appears to be lunchtime judging by the number of peo- ple taking their ease.