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The church at Painswick has a right-angled, almost fortress-like chapel, which dates back hundreds of years.

these help it to blend perfectly into the setting of the village. Christ Church was consecrated in 1904.

Rowers speed past moored motor cruisers on a sylvan reach of the river, close to the town centre.

This is a daily sight around the capital of horse racing - stable lads exercising racehorses on Newmarket Heath.

Rustic benches and rose arches form the subject of this picture, and would have made an attractive postcard.

The shelves at the front of the shops and the hooks overhead indicate that these were butchers' shops.

The quay was once an unloading point for ships, carrying cargoes of wines and spirits to the town.

An evocative view of this pleasant town which takes its name from the ruinous Cistercian Abbey.

It was 1938 when Gary Cooper starred in 'The Adventures of Marco Polo', showing in Flint in the Grand cinema.

Burton's can be seen in the middle of this photograph, the white building by the white van and delivery lorry,

Typical sailing cruisers glide majestically along the River Thurne, passing one of the essential wind pumps which drain the fields throughout the Broads area.

A delightful close-up view of a typical Kentish windmill; this one is an octagonal white-boarded smock mill. The mill was built in1869.

Many of these buildings were built by Thomson for their shipyard workers. Some still exist, but many houses have been replaced by new buildings.

By this time the population of Perth was about 32,000. The city's manufacturing industries were diverse and included linen, twine, jute, glassmaking and printing.

The Severn at Shrewsbury is the haunt of pleasure craft. Here the ferryman is carrying guests from the Boat House Inn across the river.

The Castle gateway is out of shot on the left.

Along here were branches of both national and Cheshire retailers including Dewhurst, the butchers, and Waterworths.

This is a well-known beauty spot on the north face of Haytor where the Becka Brook hurtles down to join the River Bovey.

The gateway to the Abbey and the commercial edge of the secular town face each other across Angel Hill.

Here we see the imposing interior of St Mary's Cathedral. By 1879, construction costs amounted to more than £110,000.

Before the opening of the swimming baths, the townspeople had only the open-air pool in Moor Lane. That was certainly well used, sometimes by as many as 1,000 people.

St John's Bridge is on the left. The Avon Mill at this time was occupied by Hugh Dryden & Co Ltd, who sold antiques and works of art here until the late 1970s.

The building on the left is the present Post Office, under the shadow of the Priory itself.

The church is built of oolitic limestone.