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Situated at a height of 650ft above sea level, Chipping Norton is Oxfordshire's highest town.

The town developed with the success of the railway, and thus the centre is relatively modern. Looking west along the Broadway we see amongst the shops branches of Curry's, the Co-op and W H Smith.

We are in Queen Street and looking across to the High Street, where we see the spire of All Saints Church.

The bus advertises Fremlins' ales outside the Red Lion, a Style & Winch house of flamboyant grandeur, but now no more, sad to say.

Originally, the fire station was at the southern end of Mill Street, next to the Salvation Army Hall. By 1955 a new station had been built on the corner of Brooke Road and South Street.

Local children, clad in the long dresses and knickerbocker trousers of Edwardian times, stare inquisitively at the camera - the lads on the right ready with bat and ball for a game of cricket.

The red sandstone ruins of Lanercost Priory stand above the River Irthing near Brampton.

Low tide in the harbour, which was another of the creations of Colonel Senhouse in the mid 18th century.

Plymouth and Devonport were served by a number of ferries, including these wonderful steam-powered, chain- guided floating bridges on the Torpoint service, which were capable of carrying wheeled vehicles

This public park, with its neatly-trimmed shrubs and bushes, occupies the former site of the vineyard of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1082 by Bishop Gundulf.

HMS 'Lion' and 'Implacable' 1890 These old ships of the line were proba- bly used as training ships for young recruits.

With fewer people about on a less sunny day, the three tiers of the sea front are clearer to see, with the road and pavement to the left separated from the wide Promenade below by trim hedges.

There is a cosy feel to the main street of this little village, between Sandwich and Wingham; it centres around the local shop, the Chequers Inn (on the extreme right) and the brick-built bus shelter.

This is an unusual but very attractive station at the end of the Northern Line, designed by Stanley Heaps in 1924; at the time he was architect to the London Underground Electric Railways.

The neighbouring shops, built around the time of the station, with their Crittall windows and regular fronts, hidden just to the left of the camera, set a similar austere tone.

Well-mannered town centre buildings open onto the flower-bedecked triangle, but the portents of a more gaudy future are already apparent.

Lansdown Crescent is one of John Palmer's finest compositions, and dates from 1789 to 1793.

This view looks from the north bank of the Avon, near the toll bridge. The mill buildings are still in use (compare this view with the last one).

This elegant colonnaded street, with its upper storeys supported on slender Ionic columns, is now cleaned and restored, and the distracting fountain has been moved.

Earith is where the two great drainage cuts of Fenland, the Old and New Bedford Rivers, take off from the Great Ouse. The drains run north-east, roughly parallel for approximately twenty miles.

The curious Mathematical Bridge across the Cam, built on geometric principles, and originally held together - so the story goes - without any fixing devices.

This street's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'cepin', meaning a 'place of trade', and here its shops include opticians, tobacconists, dry cleaners, book and toy shops and the Crusty Loaf bakers with its

Viewed from Watledge, the Railway Hotel is shown clearly in the centre of the picture, with C W Jones' coal office behind the chimney to the right.

Walsworth Road runs from the railway station to the centre of Hitchin. We might be forgiven for believing that this is a quiet backwater in a developing market town.