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This photograph of the town shows the High Street, depicting an elegant mix of Georgian buildings and shop fronts.

On the left are the premises of the now defunct National Provincial Bank of England, and just opposite is a window cleaner's cart containing ladders.

Note the sign on the telegraph pole on the right - 'telegrams may be telephoned.' Upper Clatford lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

We are looking down on the village from the site of a Roman camp. The old Roman road drops steeply down onto the green, via a bridge over the short river from Semer Water, two miles away.

Just four miles west of Scarborough travellers were tempted to stop for refreshments at the Derwent Cafe. The cafe is now in the back part of the building, while the front is a general store.

At the end of Main Street is the entrance to Sewerby Hall, now a fine museum officially opened in June 1936 by the Hull-born aviator Amy Johnson (1903-41).

St Ives Harbour, facing east and in the lee of the Island, is one of the more sheltered harbours on this rugged coastline.

Cyclists pedal along in comparative safety, and a lady is happy to stand in the middle of the road and ask a policeman for directions.

Little of the abbey church remains, but other buildings around the cloister are better preserved. This view shows the south transept (centre left), with the chapter house on the right.

The building next to the Grand Hotel, a victim of the Luftwaffe in the blitz, became the home of the Royal Western Yacht Club in 1880.

The cobble-edged wide Market Place of Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, still holds its market every Wednesday, just as it has done since medieval times.

It is regrettable that all the trees have now gone in this view looking towards the Town Hall, but the flint walls and the house on the right survive.

On the left, the east pier reaches out across the harbour towards the railway station complex, with the long stone pier carrying the line continuing on towards the small lighthouse at its end.

The Dutch gables on the houses along both sides of this street are a good example of the influence that the many Dutch and Flemish immigrants to Norfolk from the 16th century onwards have had over local

This little group of shops was built in 1908, on the site of a former wheelwright and boat-building business.

For those taking the waters in Edwardian times, there were plenty of hotels. The most expensive was the Clarendon, with rooms at 6s 6d, breakfast at 3s and dinner at 5s.

Despite the delays in completing the cut, it remained one of the most profitable of England's waterways, paying dividends up to 1947.

In the section of the park beyond Marlborough Road, Edward Davis erected this obelisk to the then Princess Victoria in early 1837 for Bath to commemorate the 'attainment of her majority'.

Back in the days when taking a picture involved a large and unwieldy camera and tripod, a photographer tended to attract a good deal of attention, but at least there appear to be plenty of people

This main street was once part of the Roman road which ran from London to Lewes in West Sussex. The legionaries paved it with ragstone eighteen feet wide and seven inches thick.

Barnwood stands on Ermin Street, which was built by the Romans to link the two important towns of Glevum (Gloucester) and Corinium (Cirencester), so the road we see in this picture

Newerne Street is Lydney's main shopping area; it has undergone a great deal of redevelopment since this photograph was taken.

Between the house and the lake we can just see part of the Cremorne Gardens, on the west bank of the mere, which were presented to the townspeople by Lord Brownlow as recently as 1953

It was founded just over 100 years ago thanks to a bequest of £45,496 from a gentleman farmer named Thomas Harper Adams, who died in 1892.