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Towards the right we can see part of the Billingham Forum Theatre, and nearer is the round glass-enclosed staircase to the art gallery.

In the centre is a fish and chip saloon; to its right is the narrow wynd called The Bar, and on the railings is an advertisement for wet fish on sale in the basement of No 1 New Road.

Opened in 1853, Bellasis Park, as it was then called, was one of the earliest public parks in the north-east.

Situated in the 270-acre grounds of Cobtree Manor, an Elizabethan house alleged to be the original of Mr Wardell's Dingley Dell in 'Pickwick Papers', this formerly popular family attraction was noted for

The Old Cherry Tree Inn, one of two pubs in Great Houghton, is a cosy village hostelry with quaint beams and plenty of character.

With Laxton's motto 'God Grant Grace' below his heraldic shield adorning the buildings, the school expanded and since the 1950s has taken over a number of the older buildings in the centre of Oundle.

Our journey starts in the superb stone-built town of Oundle, nowadays a popular tourist destination and home to Oundle School.

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC. Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community.

Newmarket is the world's capital of horse racing. Here we see unsaddled horses being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

One of only three such bridges in the country, the transporter bridge connected Runcorn with Widnes on the north shore of the River Mersey.

The serious expression on the faces of the young men, one clad in plus fours, posing for their photograph on the summit cairn, suggests the effort involved.

Builth Wells is in 'the county of rivers', and the River Wye lazily winds its way around this old spa town. Mineral waters were first discovered at Builth in the 1700s.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.

A gas lamp stands in the middle of the square, where the market cross once stood. A pestle and mortar (still there) proclaims that Mackereth, late Mason, is a chemist's shop.

Cromer stands high and bracing on its breezy cliffs, from which stairs and zig-zag paths lead down to the sands. On undeveloped tastes Cromer would be thrown away.

Originally a separate village from Broadstairs and taking its name from the medieval church, this small collection of shops and houses lies inland from the sea.

Notice the old Town Hall on the right hand side of the photograph – now sadly destroyed and replaced by an extremely bland 1960s building.

A little over a mile from shore, this imposing granite tower, 62 feet in height, rises out of a cauldron of furious waves. It was originally built in 1795. The one seen here was built in 1873.

One such occupant was Lillie Thomas, an honorary Commander of the Red Cross who did sterling work organising local facilities for the convalescence of the wounded home from the First World War.

The 'Cambrian Traveller's Guide' of 1813 was a little sceptical, pointedly recording that 'the village contains a castle of somewhat modern construction'.

It was built in 1900 as a workhouse for the Hursley District Council at the northern end of Hursley Road.

In 1871 W Harrison, secretary of the Birmingham Gas Co, certainly did his stuff; he cooked the books and made off with £18,000.When the company was dissolved, £100 was left in the kitty for Harrison

Broadstairs, a well-known resort on the Isle of Thanet between Margate and Ramsgate, retains its village atmosphere.