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The lack of a screen between the main body of the church and the altar probably adds to the effect.

Mithian lies just off the Perranporth to St Agnes road. Here at the top end of the hamlet, the nearest end of the thatched house is the post office, with a telephone kiosk outside.

Twenty years later, in 1688, William of Orange accepted the throne of England here.

Here we see the heart of the famous Cornish fishing village at its quaintest, and most deserted.

The famous sands are dotted with deckchairs and holidaymakers in the sunshine of the mid 20th century.To the right is 'Dreamland', developed on the site of the famous 'Hall by the Sea' after 1919.

This is the very top of Market Street as we turn out of Castle Hill. The road coming in 100 yards down on the right is King Street.

At the time of Domesday Book, this part of Worcestershire was described as a 'wilderness', with 'numerous and vast thickets'.

The frontage has the suits of a pack of cards carved into the slates. The Capital and Counties Bank (centre) is now Lloyds TSB.

Shoppers at John Harrison's would have been paying something in the region of 6s 11d a pound for sirloin, 2s 1d for brisket, 2s 11d for streaky bacon, 4s 11d for a dozen eggs and around 3s 5d for a pound

After the purchase of Sandringham House, the tiny station at Wolferton became the stopping off point for visiting members of the Royal family.

Less than a century after its foundation, the town was already dominating the skyline and its beaches were among the most crowded on the south coast.

Along with Woodhouse Moor to the north, the park was considered the chief lung of the city, where for a few hours at the weekend factory workers had an opportunity to get away from the dust, grime, noise

Leeds was one of the pioneers of segregated tracks, keeping trams and other vehicles apart.

Built in 1575 by Thomas Seckford, Elizabeth I's Master of the Rolls, Woodbridge's Shire Hall stands on an island in the middle of Market Hill.

Children idly watch the photographer - and each other - from either side of the road, and wagons stand under one of the arches in Kemp and Sons' yard.

Earlswood Lakes are on Earlswood Common, south of Redhill, and really in the clay Weald. The ponds lie across the road from New Pond Farm, where today there is a nature reserve.

A superb haymaking scene which shows the manpower once required on the land at this hill-top farm, to the south west of Haslemere.

Liphook had begun to expand by the time this photograph was taken; its streets were characterised by neat rows of Victorian and Edwardian houses.

Here we see the stern exterior of Cliff College, with that most archetypal English game of croquet being played on the lawns.

A final view looking around the sweeping east pier of Howth harbour to the lighthouse.

Now part of a girls' school, the Abbot's Great Hall is its centrepiece, originally of the 15th century.

To the east of the village, the canalised river was heavily used for carrying stone, and waggon tipplers for loading up the boats can still be seen.

Hemmed in by a circle of hills and built on a gravel bank between the Thames Isis and the River Cherwell, Oxford creates the impression of sitting on an island.

The London, City & Midland Bank can be seen on the corner of busy Cornmarket Street and Carfax. Note the signs attached to the lamp standard, pointing to London and Gloucester.