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Taunton's Market House, now mainly offices, stands on the site of the former covered market.

Four miles downstream, where the Stour joined the Severn, stood the sleepy hamlet of Lower Mitton.

In the distance some of the houses on the green are visible. Hartlepool lies in the far distance on the right. The beach tents give the picture a period feeling.

Lady Daresbury took great pride in developing botanical gardens at Walton with specimen planting in the style of Kew; thousands of local people enjoyed visiting them on annual open days.

On the left is the corner of Lloyds Bank; then comes Siddal and Kirby's shoe shop, the Wool Shop, now Nationwide with a new shop front, and the Midland Bank.

The Goat Hotel on the immediate right is still in business and a useful base for ramblers, but it is a bit small with only 5 rooms. The AA two-star rating may reflect the excellent pub food.

More recently it housed a branch of Lloyds Bank, who gave the building to the city in 1927. Today it is a most delightful museum.

According to the historian, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Dubricius (sometimes also known as Dyfrig) was present at King Arthur's coronation and was the founder of a monastery near Ross-on-Wye and

The chimneys of Rutland Terrace and part of the Parish Church can be seen on the left, and houses in Edinburgh Avenue on the right. The notice board advertises John Green's Pavilion Refreshment Rooms.

Now owned by the National Trust for Scotland, Brodick Castle, once the seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, dates from the 14th century.

Red Hill is one of the pleasantest streets in Stourbridge, created centuries ago by cutting through the red sandstone which outcrops locally.

Bigbury-on-Sea stands on a promontory above the River Avon, which rises high on southern Dartmoor. This was a rural backwater until well into the 20th century.

Britannia House, on Upper Tything, was designed by Thomas White as a mansion for the Somers family.

The two buildings dominating this view of the east side of Foregate Street have both been converted to other purposes.

In the distance you can see the Green and beyond it the tall spire of the church of St Philip and St James, built in 1869 with sandstone from nearby Holt. The tower and spire were added later.

A young lad sits on the grass on the sheltered inward side of the cliffs.

This is the administrative centre of the city, with the late 19th-century County Hall, the Court House and the Town Hall.

It was embellished by statues of Queen Victoria and Wellington, transferred from Victoria Square.

The south bank is a series of islands linked by footbridges, and is just as popular as public parkland.

It was embellished by statues of Queen Victoria and Wellington, transferred from Victoria Square.

In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft.

Here is a clutter of ramshackle warehouses, timber-yards and wharves.

'Glorious Goodwood', one of the great advertising slogans, usually lives up to its name, and the racing that takes place here, high on the South Downs and a mile north of Goodwood House, is usually blessed

The photograph shows congenial, modest, mostly early 19th-century buildings, with a series of shop fronts pre-dating the ugliness of late 20th-century aluminium framing and internally illuminated fascia