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Most of Balliol's buildings, by Salvin and Butterfield, are 19th-century.

Didcot is famous for being a major junction on the Western Region main line.

Built on the estuary of the Stour, and close to Manningtree, this is a fascinating town. The large buildings behind the barge are maltings, now being converted into living accommodation.

Known in Petersfield as 'the Pond' and created out of three very boggy areas in 1732, this spot has never ceased to attract visitors from miles around.

Two RAC patrolmen saunter past the Hook Road post office (right), ignoring the few motor vehicles on the road.

The road leading to the Dee estuary is relatively peaceful in 1960, and the roundabout, resplendent with flower beds, is a reminder of earlier civic pride in such innovations.

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.

The Gothic-style monument at the end of the road is still in place; it is a drinking fountain presented to the town by the Hon Mark Rolle in 1870. The building on the left is the town hall.

The building is on the site of previous houses owned by the Rishton family; Dunkenhalgh then passed to the Walmsleys, until Catherine Walmsley married Robert the seventh Lord Petre.

The gothic architecture seen here remained an enthusiasm for builders and architects throughout much of the Victorian period.

It has lots of different bright materials and extravagantly overscaled carved detail, such as the gigantic capitals dwarfing their columns.

Maesteg was renamed, for a number of years, as Bowrington up until the 1870's, after Dr John Bowring MP.

This is one part of Redditch which has not greatly changed, although the traffic is a great deal heavier now.

A row of cottages with weather-boarding and a thatched roof faces the parish church.

Apart from the fact that there is a pavement on the right-hand side of the road, the scene has changed very little since the photograph was taken.

The box hedges cut into the shape of chessmen in the splendid topiary garden at Haseley Court are well worth seeing.

The only part left of this superb medieval mansion is the 1820s extension on the left. The place fell into disrepair, and bits were sold off in the 1930s.

The policeman is approaching the portico of the former Mayfair Cinema, latterly called the Broadway until its closure.

Children play at the south end of the beach. Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.

Smokers had not become the social outcasts of today, as the Players sign affirms. BP petrol is also available, perhaps for the approaching Bedford Dormobile.

The reservoir's prime function may have been to fill the perpetual needs for water in distant Liverpool, but it also became a haven, not only for bird life but also for the recreational pursuits of the

The nearby hamlet of Staylittle allegedly took its name from a village blacksmith who was so quick at shoeing horses that his smithy became known as Stay-a-Little.

It was here in 1926 that the then owner of the hotel, Mrs Scott-Bowden, organised a cricket festival for women – and so founded the National Women's Cricket Association.

The central bays of the promenade building survive, but the arched bays on each side were rebuilt in the 1950s.