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Formerly in Worcestershire, King's Norton became part of Birmingham in 1911.

Pictures taken of Four Ways in the 1920s reveal a delightful rural scene. Only 30 years later, it has become just another branch of suburbia.

These overgrown ruins are the remains of a Cistercian abbey that once attracted pilgrims by the thousand in medieval times. They came to a shrine that was said to contain a phial of Christ's blood.

Once a small village, Wroxham has now grown large as a result of the number of people intent on a cruising holiday. Local businesses have flourished.

To the left are the 'second-class' houses of Marine Parade, the spire of St John's church, built in 1853, and the 'first-class' houses of the Esplanade.

This pastoral scene alongside the River Wey still exists, in spite of the proximity of the busy Farnham by-pass behind the camera.

At the foot of St Dunstan's Hill, this mock-Tudor fronted Charrington's pub stands at the crossing point of the old parish boundary of Gander Green Lane with the Sutton by-pass, which had been constructed

St Ives Island, on which the Chapel of St Nicholas stands, is actually a headland joined to the shore.

The village pond, originally for watering horses, was filled in about 1960 and the area is now a pleasant village green, still with some of the original trees.

Cheaper prices led to a heyday of caravanning in the 1950s and 1960s which has continued, though not quite on the same scale, to the present day.

This very well-known Sussex landmark has an air of quiet beauty and dignified charm about it.

Bosham, which lies on the eastern edge of Chichester Harbour, is renowned for its picturesque setting and sturdy Saxon church, which contains an unusual crypt and the grave of one of King Canute's daughters

Amberley Castle, seen on the right, dates back to Norman times and was strongly fortified in 1377.

Situated just outside Horsham, the village of Warnham is noted for its large mill pond.

Here we see picturesque timber-framed cottages in the centre of Fittleworth, to the south-east of Petworth.

The Riverside Town Mills of W Hooker and Sons are situated just to the left of the stretch of water visible in this photograph.

Much vandalised in the 1950s, the prominent but isolated old church became one of the first in the Rochester diocese to lock its doors when not in use and the first to install an alarm system.

On 17 September 1944 Sunday morning worshippers on their way to church heard the distant rumble of aircraft engines.

Grange 1893 The hamlet of Grange-in-Borrowdale was originally founded as an outlying settlement from the medieval monastery of Furness Abbey.

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

Bunbury has been described as 'a village that the commuter has found but not spoilt', and it has a delightful mixture of buildings of all periods.

The memorial cross stands on Lawrence Sheriff Street, and was erected to the memory of those who died in the First World War.

Henley is a fine example of a medieval settlement developing in linear fashion along a highway, as this photograph demonstrates - though it tells only part of the story, for the High Street

For centuries, Stoneleigh was home to the dozens of estate workers employed by the Leighs.