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Looking across the Menai Straits to Anglesey, the city of Bangor is the largest town in the north-west corner of Wales, the former principality of Gwynedd, and home to an ancient diocese and the University

This view, showing the wonderful friezes of blind arcades, and with the 19th-century additions largely concealed, gives a good sense of the power of the keep on its mound.

This view, showing the wonderful friezes of blind arcades, and with the 19th-century additions largely concealed, gives a good sense of the power of the keep on its mound.

At the end of the strip of land known as the Shingles is the lighthouse at Hurst Point, warning ships of the mudbanks and shallows that line the nearby coastline.

This is a superb view of the mill. We can clearly see the mill race and weir. Note also the spire of the church in the centre of the picture.

This view of the rear of the Town Hall is taken from Town Hall Gardens.

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station. On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

A source of water was essential for the use of the monks and the parishioners. The small River Eea (or Ay) is the largest stream in the area, and it runs through the centre of Cartmel.

The Douglases were a powerful family: they were wardens of the Border Marches, lords of Galloway and skilled in war.

The locks lifted boats and barges a full 60 ft, and is one of the most impressive groups of locks on the canal. The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Newton Abbot and Newton Bushel were two discrete settlements at the head of the Teign estuary when William of Orange arrived there from Brixham in 1688, on his way to displace James II as King of England

After 1803 the environs of the Dawlish Water were landscaped to provide the kind of pleasure grounds expected in fashionable resorts of this period.

In this unusual view looking south-west, taken apparently from an upper window of the Crown Hotel, we see the ever present line of parked cars, the newest of which, 6503MC, was registered

Running above the course of the Flete brook, this broad street, now one of Torquay's premiere shopping malls, was constructed in 1865 to replace the narrow lane of slums and fishermen's cottages that originally

Using local timber from the woodlands along the estuary, the shipbuilders of Bucklers Hard, who would have lived in these cottages, built at least three of the ships which fought at the Battle of Trafalgar

The church of St Mary the Virgin at Upper Swainswick dates from Norman times.

Native to this country, beeches were planted for shelter, ornament and, of course, their timber.

By the mid 1800s Church Stretton had become a holiday resort for people keen on country walking, and many hotels were established to serve this market.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

Here we have a view of the church steeple from the opposite end of the village. The church has a Tudor pulpit. The house on the right was once an inn called the Perserverance.

In late morning sunshine, the boys of the village head for the newsagents, possibly to collect their wages for the daily delivery run.

A large number of the buildings in this photograph are now Grade II listed, but the dishevelled look of the market stalls did little to foster civic pride in antiquity.

A newer Shanklin grew up along the seashore to cater for the demands of both visitors and those who came to settle.

A very regular row of houses lines this quiet street. I wonder if all the residents were enjoying their first taste of commercial television?