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Austin's Library is now the Sue Ryder charity shop, Allsworth's ironmonger's, owned by Harry Hole, and immediately beyond, the Edwardian world of Martin & Triggs, Outfitters.

A parish clerk of Kempsey Church once caught a choir-boy eating chestnuts inside the building.

A pony and trap stand on the main road which passes by the foot of the green on the left, around which are the tile- hung yeomens' cottages and the village pub.

To the right of the K Shoe Shop is a corner of Heelas' store, a noted local department store, now part of John Lewis.

Opened in 1883 on the site of the old Crockherbtown Theatre, with money raised by a consortium headed by James Howell, the Park Hotel 'designed for high-class family business', was to epitomise the

Even before the end of the First World War calls had been made to erect a monument to honour Wales' dead.

Between the right-hand blind and the entrance doorway was the London City and Midland Bank, forerunner of the Midland Bank, and now the police office.

Axmouth stands at the southern end of the Fosse Way, the great Roman road that strides across England from far-off Lincolnshire.

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

The church of St Carantoc stands in its churchyard within sight of the sea. It has an unusual layout, with the chancel roof higher than the nave.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540

Only the central rump of this row of cottages survives today in the village, and is barely recognizable from the photograph.

It was originally called the Tercentenary Hall, but as this is a bit of mouthful, it quickly became renamed New Hall by the boys.

Many of the town's elegant buildings were built during the 18th century, when the town prospered from the East Indies trade.

The Trinity Weslyan Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Mawney Road and Linden Street, was built in 1888 and provided seating for 750 worshippers.

The statue of Queen Victoria is on the right and beneath it are two of Nottingham's other fixtures - Solari's and Capocci's ice-cream stalls.

Here we see evidence of early tourism in the area with a wonderful display of post-cards in the shop on the right.

A 'tidy' view of Market Square complete with flower beds, mown grass and full benches just before opening time. Many of the buildings surrounding the Square show evidence of ancient origins.

Street furniture is on the increase, and Luton's planners show innovation for the period with the first example of a mini-roundabout, just visible behind the vehicle in the middle of the photograph.

The processional cross once belonged to the Roman Catholic Chapel at Wingerworth Hall, seat of the Hunloke family.

The Old House of 1678 is a prominently-sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

Twelve years before the turn of the century the Eastgate looks austere without its decorative clock.

It is hard to believe that this narrow road was once part of one of the major highways of England which had linked London and Chester since medieval times.

This is a favourite place of pilgrimage for loyal Americans. Washington House, on the main street, was the home of the forebears of American President George Washington.