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'The large cellars or caves beneath the town, dug out of the sand rock, are highly curious.

In its heyday this was a huge village with shops of every description and five prosperous inns; there was even a beer house run by Matthew Austin.

The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co's 'Mona's Queen' eases out of Fleetwood on a summer sailing. During the Great War the paddler was employed on trooping duties across the Channel.

In time, the effect of heavy furniture in upstairs rooms caused the floor joists to sag, but this was counterbalanced by extending the joists over the wall beneath and adding the weight

The original inn stood on the opposite side of the road, on the south- western corner of what is now the busy Oxford road into Swindon.

The library, part funded by a gift to the people of Cheshunt by the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, was opened to the public in 1907. Designed by J Myrtle Smith, the library included a School of Art.

Navenby now seems to be an almost self-contained village on the A607 between Lincoln and Grantham. The main street consists mostly of stone cottages converted over the years into shops.

The 'Queen Mary' often drew the crowds as she proudly made her way up the Solent - note the numbers of people and parked cars in C173004.

The vicar of St George's envisaged a need for a hospital, and so in 1866 he set up a hospital in a house on the corner of Cross Street and Albert Street - it became known as St George's Hospital.

The junction off Grange Road and Whetstone Lane (to the right) is known as Charing Cross. Grange Road was one of the main shopping streets in Birkenhead, and was very popular.

This photograph shows the part of the Jubilee Exhibition of 1887 that was situated between Talbot Road and the railway.

Navenby now seems to be an almost self-contained village on the A607 between Lincoln and Grantham. The main street consists mostly of stone cottages converted over the years into shops.

Men an Tol means 'stone of the hole'; this most famous of Cornish landmarks probably belongs to the Neolithic period.

The village stands under the downs near the source of the Len and has a broad, attractive market square fringed with lime trees, which create a shadowed path over the uneven setts and cobbles.

When they see it from the road or the nearby railway, travellers are puzzled by this church with towers at both ends.

The King's Arms (right, and now no longer a pub) was the scene of the Haslemere Riot and the murder of Inspector William Donaldson on 28 July 1855.

By the mid 1980s, most of the mines had shut, with dire consequences for the communities here. However, all that was still to come at the time when this photograph was taken.

Land around here was once one of the royal hunting grounds. The White Horse, a chalk hill figure, was carved in 1857. It is still a major attraction and can be seen for miles.

In medieval times the town also supported the Hospital of St John the Evangelist, founded in 1189 for a chaplain and twelve poor people.

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

They lived in a cluster of mud-daubed cottages built of wreck timber close to the walls of the church - hence Church Town.

In 1997 a statue of William Webb Ellis was unveiled by the rugby player Jeremy Guscott in front of the New Quad building.

This motor historian's delight contains many cars and vans typical of its date.

The slate-hung buildings are 11 and 13 High Street, two of the oldest in town.