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The slate-hung building (second left) was once a gaming house, and is still known as the Card House. The frontage has the suits of a pack of cards carved into the slates.

The London, City & Midland Bank can be seen on the corner of busy Cornmarket Street and Carfax. Note the signs attached to the lamp standard, pointing to London and Gloucester.

Local tradesmen pose for the cameraman in front of the ornate octagonal open Market Cross in the Market Place, centrepiece of this lovely little town which many people believe to be the most beautiful

The two Cowes, situated on the west and east banks of the River Medina, are famous throughout the world as a centre for yachting and as the home port of the Royal Yacht Squadron.

This tiny village straddles a steep slope above the east bank of the Fowey River. Down the slipway beyond the historic Ferry Inn, car ferries ply to and fro across the waters of the Fowey.

In this view of the seafront just west of the harbour, a lone wagon stands on the siding from the Aberdovey Harbour branch line.

Taken from Billy Banks Wood south of the Swale, this distant view shows the defensive site of Richmond Castle, and the town clinging precariously - and picturesquely - to the hillside

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the River Cherwell, Oxford creates the impression of sitting on an island.

An assortment of people are enjoying this wide open stretch of the river. The boat yard on the far bank - now under different ownership - offers 'Launches and Boats Built to Order'.

The Staffordshire Education Authority acquired the Hall on Dove Bank in 1919 and named it Uttoxeter Girls' High School.

A timeless scene in one of the many creeks of the long estuary that runs between Salcombe and Kingsbridge.

This is the view from Poole Bridge. The Nissen hut on the left has today given way to a building occupied by the Lifeboat Station and Dorset Police Marine Section.

Just past the Midland Bank, looking north west, the elegant late Victorian shops on the left survive, although W H Smith has now moved on.

Askham, four miles south of Penrith, is one of the most attractive villages in the former county of Westmorland, and Askham Bridge, spanning the River Lowther, is one of the most graceful structures

This view of the square shows how it had been broken up, so to speak, and had lost the impression of openness.

From the Thrapston bank of the River Nene, the photographer looks across to the former Country Club. A fine Georgian house, it boasts a Colleyweston slate roof and sash windows.

By the mid-Fifties, Crown Square had taken on a much more urban appearance, with black and white kerb markings, a Belisha beacon on the right, and traffic signs in the centre of the

Further along the staithe is a typical modern river-side bungalow with a neatly tended garden.

Here we have the old Market Square, renamed Cathedral Square in 1963.

Looking along George Street from Market Square, the timber-framed building and Ellis's were replaced in 1910 in Jacobean style by Market Chambers and a bank.

The Ilminster by-pass now takes traffic from this street, and little has changed here. The shop and garage on the left are now houses, and new houses stand high on Strawberry Bank beyond.

This was taken with only a few minutes difference from No R16048 - some of the people are standing in the same positions! We get a better view of the elegant bank building on the left.

The River Nene flows through Northampton; it has been an important artery through the county for centuries.

Here we see the High Street from the foot of Bank Street, showing clearly the overhead cables for the trolley-buses, one of which is in the foreground.