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One of Charles Wicksteed's inventions was a machine for the tearooms, which cut and buttered bread.

This view of busy Sheep Street shows patient bus passengers corralled into queues by solid metal barriers. On the left the parade of Piccadilly Buildings ends with the George Hotel.

Baker's is still on the comer. On the opposite comer is Smith Bradbeer & Co Ltd, a well-supported local general clothing and furniture store.

Now a tree-clad hilltop fort, this is another example of the many forts built by the Iron Age people. To date it has never been excavated.

Tottington's unusual claim to fame is that it is one of the most northerly places to have suffered a hit from a German V1 flying bomb, or Doodlebug, during the Second World War.

This village near Midhurst was built mainly to house employees of the Cowdray Estate, famed for the landscaped park and polo playing.

This sea front was hard to negotiate, despite all the signs of a developing resort.

At this time Trentham Hall was still used by the Dukes of Sutherland, and local people were allowed access to the gardens on public holidays and during Wakes Week.

Even at this time Compstall Road, along with Stockport Road, had long been at the commercial heart of the town.

Belford is just one of many places in Northumberland that suffered during the cross-border raids that were a feature of life in the North for several centuries.

This is one of Kent's most haunted villages. Ghost hunter Andrew Green recently looked into these tales for a new book, and found only one haunting still allegedly occurring.

It became Bromley's Restaurant in the 1940s until it closed at the end of the 1960s.

This imposing brick building was built in the Gothic style to the design of George Gilbert Scott in 1868. In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

Our look at the fine schools of Bedford moves north beyond St Peter's Square to Bedford School. This had its origins in the free school founded by Sir William Harpur in 1566.

C i t y A t t r a c t i o n s and the smell of gas mantles being lit'. So much of the old has gone; it could never have coped with modern demands and numbers.

St Columba was a member of the O'Neill clan; he left Ireland after the battle of Cuil-dremne.

In 1645 old Thomas Wright was ejected from the living, presumably because of his known Royalist sympathies and his refusal to give up using the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

This wonderfully atmospheric pub, now an Everards house, is photographed before the universal advent of lager and 'Kids Welcome'.

The town was fortunate to have a number of County Schools. The national school was attended by 200 boys and girls.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

Away from the bustle of the main Scarborough road lies the secluded village of Gristhorpe. Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages.

A beam from the year of the Spanish Armada was found in the remains of the old church.

Robin Hood's Bay is now half the size of the original village - the centre section slid into the sea, taking with it the new road.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.