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Standing majestically atop the White Cliffs, this fortress is known as the 'guardian of the gateway to England'. It was an important Iron Age site, and the Anglo-Saxons built the original structure.

These half-timbered houses, overlooked by the 15th-century church of St Mary the Virgin, were once homes for local tradesmen from the Jacobean Chilham Castle estate.

Cadnam is one of the best-known villages in the New Forest. Most people know it as being at the end of the M27 motorway where it joins the A31 - in a sense, it is the gateway to the forest.

Rows of stone cottages and rolling farmland characterise Brookhouse, which is close to Caton with Littledale and a popular retreat for commuters to Lancaster.

The women baked bread, washed clothes, used carved spoons made of sycamore wood (it did not stain), cared for children and eagerly awaited the weekly carrier's cart to replenish their stocks of candles

There is a record of a chapel here in about 1050, situated where Cove Lane meets Emesgate Lane.

It has been suggested that the Shrewsbury Arms is so called because it once belonged to the Earls of Shrewsbury. The church of St Mary Magdalene sits across the road.

Sitting as it does on the English-Welsh border, Oswestry was often attacked. The town therefore has few really old buildings - Llwyd Mansion is one of these, dating from 1604.

Canford Bridge has three arches of Portland stone over a languid length of the River Stour, and carries the road from Wimborne to Poole.

It is now part of the Manchester Metropolitan University, and it is still linked with the campus at Alsager, as well as with five other campus sites in the Manchester area.

This evocative image captures the atmosphere of Mundesley in the early 1920s. It is still recognisable today, but Percy Bladon Dando does not have his general store on the left any more.

The 'Millie Walton' was sent to Cromer for evaluation in 1945 before she was sent to her station on the Isle of Man.

Bridge End is on the south bank of the Avon, where all the roads from the south previously met to cross into Warwick.

One of the celebrities giving a demonstration on this occasion was Miss Cicely Cousins, who had won the ASA High Diving Championship in 1934.

At the centre of the photograph stands the then new College building.

The window of the Cockfield chapel is blocked by later monuments. The railed tomb (centre) is that of John Barnes (d1845).

Rickinghall Inferior is to the left of the road, with Superior to the right.

Jan's Folly stands at the junction of the A45 and A5 trunk road. It was originally one of Telford's tollhouses on the London to Holyhead turnpike.

Notice the almost formal clothing of the seaside visitors – the women all wearing dresses or skirts, children in smart footwear and ankle socks, and the men clad in jackets, pullovers and ties!

Although Congleton produced the most silk of the two towns, for some reason it was always Macclesfield further north that was known as 'the silk town' – but ribbons (nylon ones these days) are still

By the 1880s, following the development of nearby Crewe as a railway town, Wistaston had become a sizeable suburb, so the chancel was increased in length and the transept was added.

It was the site of the medieval market, and 'shambles' was the common name associated with meat trading.

This view shows Carbis Bay when it was still largely undeveloped, with just a scattering of houses above the cliffs overlooking the sandy beach.

The photographer has moved in closer to the beach to take this picture, although still concentrating on the same area as the former one.The Shrubbery Gardens, above the sun shelter, are well used