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This idyllic picture of the Brixham fishing fleet gives some idea of just how much the fishing industry dominated the town for hundreds of years.

The steeply-sloping cobbled Market Place in the centre of Wirksworth was the centrepiece of the restoration of this former lead mining town, which won a Casa Nostra award in the 1980s.

A glorious patchwork of fields and woodland stretches away under huge Sussex skies.

Low Brook was built in the middle of the 20th century as an overspill housing estate just to the south-east of Rockbeare village.

This postcard typifies Ramsgate at the height of its holiday seaside popularity, when it challenged the renown of Blackpool with its lights and entertainment.

Beneath the cupola above the central gateway is a statue of Caroline, Queen of George II, who donated £1,000 towards the completion of the quadrangle.

Mudeford is a pleasant fishing village at the mouth of Christchurch harbour, though the waters around are now full of leisure sailors.

Well- ordered rows of caravans are ready to welcome summer visitors. A complex of administrative buildings can also be seen.

In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

During the early part of the 17th century, busts began to take the place of effigies; the county's earliest bust can be found here, on the memorial to Sir Thomas Cornwallis, one-time governor

Lastingham is fewer than seven miles northwest of Pickering. In AD654 St Cedd, the brother of St Chad, built a monastery here, where St Chad died of the yellow plague in AD664.

One of the early buildings constructed as part of Ebenezer Howard's vision of a garden city at Letchworth, this fantastic structure was erected in 1906-7 by the architect Coulishaw, and was intended

Up the hill is an early example of a covered shopping area - the Butterwalk, parts of which were known as piazzas.

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

To the right of Romsey's Corn Exchange, built in 1864, is a glimpse of Romsey Abbey, which until the mid-16th century was home to a Benedictine order of nuns.

In the year of Queen Victoria's passing, these fashionably-clad Edwardians take the air along the mile-long greensward of The Leas on top of the cliff, and against the backdrop of these smart Victorian

This is a view beloved of generations of artists and photographers. The church of St Mary the Virgin was built in the 14th century.

The imposing red sandstone ruins of the keep of Brougham Castle watch over the River Eamont.

This charming lane near the church has a concentration of thatched cottages. Further along is Jubilee Barn, the original tithe barn of the village.

Accrington was originally a chapelry of Altham. The chapel was built in 1763; it had no tower, and was considerably shorter.

A Morris 8 Series E waits patiently outside the church of All Saints in the village of Whitwell, which, with Bendish, forms the parish of St Paul's Walden.

Here we see a quiet corner of Kenilworth.

The long-running TV comedy, 'Last of the Summer Wine', had not put Holmfirth on the tourist map when this photograph of the main square was taken.