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The hotel at Buttermere, formerly known as the Fish Hotel, was the scene in 1802 of a great scandal: the landlord's daughter, Mary Robinson or 'the Maid of Buttermere', was seduced and bigamously married

The Promenade of Saltburn is dominated by the impressive edifice of the Zetland Hotel.

Demolition took its toll on the left side of this picture.

Swanbridge and Sully Island, once the haunt of wreckers and pirates, would play host to an equally enthusiastic yet more peaceful group of invaders each summer!

The names of the fallen are on plaques built into the gallery wall to the right of the obelisk, which simply states: 'Their name liveth for evermore'.

On the left is the Electra Cinema which occupied the ground floor of the defunct Market Hall.

A drawing board, a tee-square, a blank sheet of cartridge paper and a commission to create a lasting memorial to war: an almost impossible task.

Some of the right hand side is taken up by Jolly's, the famous Bath department store which had a most elaborate Victorian stone and granite shopfront of 1875 added to part of its frontage.

Looking across the green at the airy and spacious village, we see the Old Rectory (left); the tallest of the next three buildings is the old police station and court house, with the White Heifer pub on

Entering the town, you may see some of the following: several acres of Victorian housing, from railway-side terraces to detached, self-confident villas; a church with a nice green spire; a white

Those of you familiar with Amberley will see that this picture pre-dates the restoration of the battlements on the 14th-century gatehouse.

In the 7th century, Selsey was the cultural centre of Sussex.

Polegate, with its typical flint walls and buildings, lies just below the extreme eastern end of the South Downs.

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.