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This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

William the Conqueror, having beaten and killed the Anglo-Danish King Harold on Senlac Hill in 1066, vowed to found an abbey on the site of the great battle, known as the Battle of Hastings.

Buckets and spades, a splash and a paddle are the order of the day in this picture.

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

Beer was the birthplace in 1788 of the smuggler Jack Rattenbury, who lived a life of adventure landing untaxed cargoes along much of the Devon coast.

At this time boys were often in their teens before they got a pair of long trousers. Jeans were unheard of, and the design of children's clothes had hardly changed for thirty years.

Here the 1903 widening of the bridge has just been completed, hence the pristine stonework.

In early 20th century guides, walkers were advised to leave the train at Port St Mary and go by way of the Chasms and Spanish Head to Port Erin..

It closed in the 1990s, and has since had a number of uses, including those of fur- niture showroom and museum of childhood.

Needham, on the main road from Ipswich to Stowmarket, was in ancient times a hamlet of Barking, but only became a parish in 1901.

Dominating Castle Square ('Y Maes' in Welsh) at the west end of the town, stands the great bulk of the castle. The structure covers two and a half acres and is in the shape of an irregular oblong.

Sheffield was once described by Horace Walpole as 'one of the foulest towns of England in the most charming situation'.

It is a replica of the ancient Ruthwell Cross, and was placed here in 1892 by the efforts of Canon Rawnsley, one of the founders of the National Trust.

The introduction of 'No Parking' markings along parts of the Esplanade was inevitable. The trend for day tripping and the increase in car ownership were to prove a bane for the council.

Initially commissioned to honour those of the parish who fell in the First World War, the simple Celtic cross of the war memorial was to be sadly amended in the aftermath of the Second World War with the

The rebuilding of All Saints' church in the 15th century was largely funded by the Brownes, a family of wealthy wool merchants.

Sir John Washington, who was knighted by Charles I and was buried in the local churchyard, was the brother of Lawrence Washington, whose son John emigrated to America and became the great-grandfather of

We are standing on what is now the golf course, above The Dell and Swallowdale. In the distance, right of centre, is the long, pale form of the recently-completed Keay House.

This monumental glass pleasure dome was created in Hyde Park by Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851. 2,000 workers erected it at high speed, bolting and welding together 3,300 iron columns

This photograph shows the more residential character of this street. A rare tin sign for Arthur Rozier, tin and zinc worker, is on the 16th-century jettied building to the left.

The advent of the internal combustion engine saw the demise of the village blacksmith, although the art is making something of a comeback with the demand for decorative railings and gates.

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

Another of the town's important roads, Crow Lane East was extended in the 1960s with the addition of a library, the original Technical School and a large estate of social housing.