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When the Oxford Canal finally reached Oxford in 1790, the city bells were rung to celebrate the arrival of the first barges loaded with coal from Coventry.

Here we see several more of the local ironstone cottages with their well kept and productive gardens. There is a fine crop of runner beans in one garden as well as the usual flowers.

In the era of the stage coach, the George Hotel was classed as the best hotel on the Great North Road, and it is still one of the best in the area.

Children have been playing near railway lines for generations and the temptations of two lines so close together were obviously too much for the determined (probably) small boys who prised

At the top of the street stand the Lister Hotel and the Half Moon, looking onto the area known as 'the Triangle'.

As well as the old church, Braddan has a newer one built out of local stone in 1869 (at a cost of £4300) to a design by John Loughborough Pearson.

Twenty-four men, accompanied by a band, march round the town, their faces blackened, carrying barrels of blazing tar above their heads.

Sedbergh is a pleasant little market town on the southern edge of the lovely Howgill Fells. It grew rapidly in the Victorian era, being on a strategic turnpike road from Kendal to Kirkby Stephen.

Lowestoft, standing on Britain's most easterly point, has fought a long and not always successful battle against the ravages of the North Sea.

Today, the increase in size of vessels has led to a new port being created down-river at Avonmouth. Visiting ships now miss this magnificent suspension bridge.

Along with Etal, Ford Castle once formed a second line of defence against the Scots; the front line consisted of the fortresses at Wark, Berwick and Norham.

We are on the slope of the Downs between Eastbourne and Polegate. A nearby vantage point at Combe hill is 638 feet high.

This is a place of pilgrimage for admirers of Hardy. The church and graveyard have been immortalised in his poems and novels.

King John granted the manor of Rodney Stoke to Sir Osbert Gifford, and it was transferred by marriage to Sir Richard de Rodney. The 17th-century manor farmhouse boasts a six-seater WC.

Pound Street continues south-west from Hiugh Street; it is more cottagey, apart from two grander houses on the left. The street is little altered, apart from more formal pavements and roadway.

The photographer has climbed onto the upper storey of the building next to Marks & Spencer's to look past the 1890s Post Office, the Tudor-style building with the ball finial to its gable on the right,

The King Harry Passage on the Fal at Trelissick was already an ancient crossing when this ferry was providing an important link to St Mawes and the Roseland peninsula.

In the village itself, Gregory Gregory's hand is everywhere, as befits an estate village nestling at the gates of a great country house in its park.

This chapter gives a snapshot of north Lincolnshire in the 1950s, as all the views were taken then: our tour takes us next to Tealby, a pretty village at the western foot of The Wolds.

At the bottom of the slope is the clock tower and George Street, in which is found one of the largest kettles in the country.

On the River Bure, Coltishall is a picturesque place and an important centre for building the famous Norfolk wherry.

strung out along the road, with the River Darent running through it and under the 15th-century humpbacked bridge (seen here behind the horse and cart) alongside a ford; it possesses an assortment of

The church is a proud, large town church of high architectural quality. Mostly 14th- and 15th-century, it was completed by the addition of the great west tower between 1542 and 1548.

One of Newent's present day tourist attractions is the Shambles, a museum of Victorian life that has its entrance in Church Street, a little way up on the left in this picture.