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Built on the site of the Old Rectory, the Basildon tractor plant was finally completed on 20 February 1964. It covered 60 acres of the 100-acre site, and had 1,360,000 square feet of buildings.

A few lorries of the period are parked on rough ground behind a hut; this makes a contrast with the full south-east outline of St Peter's Cathedral.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

It is mid-morning in the courtyard of the New Inn. Has the man on the stairway seen the infamous ghost of the New Inn?

The church was rebuilt in 1861 and the tower went up in 1873 at a cost of £3,500 in memory of Bishop Philpott, who is buried in the churchyard.

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

Thatched roofs, leaded windows, local stone and a profusion of creepers and roses, set amid lofty trees, make this scene an archetypal image of countryside tranquillity.

A few miles to the south of Nairn stands Cawdor Castle, one of Scotland's finest medieval buildings. It is famous for its association with Macbeth and the murder of Duncan.

Henry Mayhew descibes a typical dockside scene: 'The cooper is hammering at the casts on the quay; the chains of the cranes, loosed of their weight, rattle as they fly up; the ropes splash in the water

In the centre is the dome of the Grand Hotel, built in 1898 to the designs of Cecil Ogden, and dismissed by Pevsner as 'of no architectural value', perhaps an over-critical view.

Just to the north of the church, the buildings on the west side of the road take on a varied appearance, the most special being the Three Swans Hotel, which has its origins from at least the early 17th

This must be one of the smallest and one of the most recently created greens in the country.

Numerous buildings, including the church, the Royal Oak dining rooms, the Union Hotel and the Alexandra Hotel, indicate the importance of Ramsey harbour as the second largest in the Isle of Man.

The Perpendicular north aisle has some windows, and in the south aisle on the west side there are stained glass windows by Powell of 1865.

Margate is today a bustling seaside resort on the Isle of Thanet, with many miles of sandy beaches, and typical seaside attractions.

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.

Magdalen College from the Bridge 1938 During the Civil War Royalist forces defended Magdalen Bridge by throwing rocks from the top of the bell tower down on the heads of Parliamentarians below

Little remains of Guildford Castle, once a favourite royal residence where many princes of the blood were brought up.

Large open fields surrounded many of the coastal plain settlements, and through the villages passed a solitary narrow street, often named after the village.

The village of Ticehurst is situated on a gentle slope surrounded by fertile valleys and hills, where hops were once extensively grown.

This country town is close to one of the noblest houses in Kent - the Jacobean home of the Sackvilles, Knole. St Nicholas's Church (left) has a 90ft-high tower and turret with a cupola.

Can you spot the white-bearded man peering out at the photographer from the doors of the Man of Kent pub, right?

This floating school set up by the Royal Navy had trained hundreds of ships' crew from all over the world.

St Lawrence's stands on Meriden Hill, aloof from most of the community it serves, but close to a small cluster of old houses and with views towards Coventry.