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Three miles from Wellingborough, between the Nene and the Ise, lies the village of Finedon.

None of its brick buildings is outstanding, yet the total effect is one of pleasing harmony. Many of the shops have retained their Victorian detailing.

A final view of Christchurch, again looking east along the nave. The massive nature of the architecture is clearly seen.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

It is believed that Bainbridge was a settlement for woodsmen working in the great forest of Wensleydale.

The medieval system of strip-lynchet farming is still visible on the hillsides around this small hamlet in this turn of the century photograph.

One of a number of attractive coves on the length of coastline between Torquay and Babbacombe, Anstey's Cove has been a favourite retreat for holidaymakers since Victorian times, when the proprietor would

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

The church is a fine pre-Reformation church, now part of the Church of Ireland. St Mary's was heavily restored in the nineteenth century.

There are few scenes on the Isle of Wight more captivating than Yarmouth harbour on a busy sailing day.

This distant view was taken from the north of the linear village of Darley Dale, which spreads along the A6 north of Matlock on the road to Bakewell.

Bell Road is an echo of Northfield's agricultural past.The population grew by over 200 per cent between 1881 and 1891, nearly all of it overflow from Birmingham; but modern Northfield owes much to

In 1838 the South Midland Temperance Association embraced a large number of towns, including Stratford-upon-Avon.

In the background is the Norman church of St Lawrence, which tradition suggests was the chapel of William the Conqueror's royal palace.

At the northern end the two largest stones form an entrance; inside, just visible to the left of the photograph, on the eastern side of the circle, are the remains of ten stones arranged in an oblong,

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring. The summit of the hill encloses a stone fort probably associated with the Bronze Age.

The large lettering of the Stroud Brewery across the façade takes precedence over the smaller hanging signs of the Prince Albert Hotel on this attractive corner.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

Standing on the site of an Augustinian convent which was founded in 1232, Lacock Abbey is the place where, in 1835, William Henry Fox-Talbot took the world's first photograph - a negative of

The long, steeply banked street of Gilesgate is still occasionally known by its medieval name of Gillygate, meaning the street of St Giles.

The meaning of the place name is 'church of St Bridget', which is the church shown here.

This general view shows typical houses of the time; the terrace in the foreground is followed by 1950s semis leading down to the waters of the inlet of Carmarthen Bay, with the Gower peninsular just visible

The Guinness clock at the top of Old Town Street was a popular rendezvous. It stood where the southern end of Drake's Circus shopping centre now stands.

The completion of the road bridge in 1961 signalled the end of the Saltash Ferry.