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The proprietress of Taylforth's Hotel (left), in the main street of Eamont Bridge, stands outside to bid farewell to a guest departing in a pony and trap.

The restored medieval Butter Cross, or High Cross, marks the site of a market. The town crier has long stood on this spot in order to communicate important news to the people of Winchester.

The centre of Bishop's Waltham has retained its character over the years, and this photograph shows some of the country town's striking Georgian buildings.

Although motor cars have replaced the horses and carts, this 1929 view of the ancient Provision Market is, in essence, little changed from medieval days.

This unusual picture shows the interior of one of the army buildings at Blackdown Camp. Instruction is taking place in the bright and well-equipped gym.

A view of industrial Godalming from just above the railway line. In the right foreground is a mill pond on a tributary valley.

Woodcote Park was commandeered by the War Office in 1915, and Humphreys of Knightsbridge were contracted to build not only huts but also a chapel and a splendid recreation room.

Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.

Behind a dry stone wall All Saints Church sits in the centre of the winding main street of the village.

The building of the parish church of St Edward was funded by wealthy Cotswold wool merchants.

It also had the distinction, following an Act of Parliament in 1562, of sending two MPs to Parliament - voted in by an electorate of only twenty!

In the distance is Monkstone Point, so called because of the remains of a monastic cell which were discovered among the precipitous rocks there.

This was the fishing area of Folkestone: note the fishing nets on the right-hand side by the steps.

Leysdown is the most easterly village of the Isle of Sheppey.

Holidaymakers are boating on the southern reaches of Windermere near Newby Bridge.

Abbotsbury's famous swannery is home to over a thousands swans, and first became a popular day out in the aftermath of the Second World War.

Above Lulworth Cove is the village of West Lulworth. Much of the surrounding countryside has been used for military training since World War Two.

Sandy Bay is Littleham's beach, offering some of the finest bathing on the East Devon coast.

The 285ft high spire of St Mary Redcliffe towers above the city docks.

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek about eight miles south-west of Swansea.

The modern Old Town Street runs more or less on the path of the old one.

The Green is to the north of St Andrew's Church; around it are some of the village's more interesting houses.

A bustling agricultural town and a centre of communications, Ashford was already undergoing a process of extensive and rapid change by the 1950s.

St Mary's Church, built of field stones and dressed with ashlar, was thoroughly restored in 1885.