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Less than a decade after photograph No 32343, the focus of attention is the motor bus in the street. In contrast, note the girl and large-wheeled pram on the left.

This view of the riverside was taken from Bickleigh Bridge. The lowering skies are clearly standard English holiday weather; the cameraman is having to fight his eternal battle against bad light.

This view, taken from the bottom of Main Street, looks up the hill towards the station. It shows the bustling town, with a carriage and a cart the only wheeled traffic.

The Victoria Institute contains Worcester's museum, art gallery and library and was built as a celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

The canal was used to facilitate the transportation of salt all around Britain.

Grains Gill tumbles over a series of cascades beneath Stockley Bridge, near Seathwaite in Borrowdale, with Aaron Crags prominent on Seathwaite Fell in the background.

As it was never a very prosperous area, there are few early buildings of interest in and around Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale. The timber building here, Rose Cottage, is a rare survival.

Coloured lamps are strung on wires around the lake as part of the town's illuminations.

This final view over Emery Down shows the extent to which the deep woodlands of the New Forest cluster around this ancient settlement. This wildness has survived into the 21st century.

Rationalisation has seen a good many of them close down.

It floods the interior of the nave with light, filtered through stained glass.

We are in the village centre on Queensway. The restaurant was closed for the winter here, but it certainly looked neat and tidy and waiting for the rush of summer visitors.

Here we see a fine example of a Norfolk wherry under sail, but apparently almost becalmed. This is the river Bure, and the church tower in the distance is St Benedict.

Glen Helen is situated about two miles north of St John's, and was developed from 1850 onwards by a Mr Marsden who named the glen after his daughter.

Children are trying their luck at fishing in the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Junction Canal. Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

By the late 1920s, not a bathing machine graces the water's edge in this view of the crowded Margate Sands, looking towards the Harbour with the Pierhead Lighthouse.

On the corner with St Stephen's Lane stands the Ancient House, a remarkable building which is probably the best surviving example of medieval pargetting - decorative plasterwork - in Britain.

The George, built in 1598, was situated at the junction between the High Street, Market Street, and Fore Street, and was the main focal point of the village.

The lower water level is revealing more of the bridge piers. 'Thomas Butcher' to the right has been redeveloped and the steps are no longer to be seen.

The Britannia Pier is at the northern end of Marine Parade, the main seafront thoroughfare.

An austere inn, perhaps, but welcoming none the less. The architecture is vaguely Dutch, in line with that of many East Anglian houses, with its double pitch roof.

Children bathe in a brook on a hot day in Stanwell. Perhaps their parents are seeking a different kind of refreshment in the nearby Rising Sun public house.

This photograph shows the graceful architecture of Maidenhead Bridge, distinguished by its elegant arches, striking stonework and fine balustrade.

Ten miles due east of Haverfordwest, Narberth was once a significant commercial centre. A tollgate was erected here but was destroyed during the Rebecca Riots in 1842-3.