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Like others rising towards Beacon Fell, this terrace, dating from 1865, testifies to the enterprise of the Penrith Building Society.

Just visible on the far right at the top of the hill is the day beacon, an 80ft stone tower which marks the eastern side of the entrance to the estuary, as the entrance is almost impossible

This picture of the famous lighthouse on Middle Head was taken from Bracelet Bay.

Lying below Ditchling Beacon, this downland village has today become a fashionable commuter village, and once-productive farmland is now used as paddocks for horses.

Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,

At the Melton sign the A606 does a double- bend.

The crowded and busy pavements on both sides of the street, and the pedestrian crossing marked with belisha beacons in the middle of the photograph, show little indication of the enormous weight of motor

The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet. It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners.

While staying in Gloucestershire in 1863, Lewis Carroll described the view across the Severn Vale as 'marked out just like a giant chessboard'.

The Circus, in the town centre, is where five roads meet. It has the usual mixture of banks and public houses on its corners.

With fewer cars on the road, cycling was a good deal safer.

Timothy Whites, the chemist, was a familiar sight in post-war Wales and is a conspicuous business on the Square.

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture. The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

The entrance to Barclays Bank is seen to the right of the picture.The High Street leads to the North Gate of the cathedral.

In olden days a beacon fire was lit on the headland to alert the countryside to threats of raids and possible invasion.

The building on the cliff in the distance was erected as two houses in the 1890s and converted by a millionaire to a single dwelling in 1915.

Here we have a distant view of the village looking east toward the Brecon Beacons. Note that this is still limestone country, with a verdant mass of trees and hedgerows.

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers with the help of wind pumps.

This attractive village stands in the beautiful valley of the River?Darent north of Sevenoaks. Here we see an empty street scene before motor traffic was commonplace.

When Lord Leverhulme, the Sunlight Soap king, bought Hall Barn and Great House Barn he had them renovated as public refreshment rooms.

The parish church of St Andrew must be the most beautiful of all the fenland churches.

The town centre is dominated by its very large triangular market place, which in its turn is visually overwhelmed by the mighty church steeple, completed in 1460 and universally known as the Boston Stump

From the work-yard of George Dixon, builder and mason, we look down on a surviving Penrith institution, Brunswick Road Junior School.

A tiny coastal hamlet in the parish of Symondsbury, Eype was provided with its own 350-seat chapel of ease, dedicated to St Peter, in 1865 (right-hand skyline).