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After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

The statue was later relocated to the top of Nevill Street.

Alfington is a tiny village alongside the river Otter, north of Ottery St Mary.

The Unicorn is one of several beautiful, old timber inns in Weobley.

The building nearest the camera, Rainsford House, was built around the turn of the century. From1924 it housed the town's municipal offices, but was eventually replaced by a new Civic Centre.

This peaceful parkland, with trees overhanging the carefully channelled waterway, was the creation of the local 17th-century Quaker poet and writer John Scott, who came to Ware from Bermondsey and used

Here we see another view of the bleak and unappealing shopping precinct, constructed when the town's population numbered less than twenty thousand people; it appears less incongruous when viewed alongside

According to an inscription on one of the octagonal piers, the north aisle was built in 1593, although a church must have existed here much earlier as the font is 13th-century.

Its worshippers must have seen a great variety of ships and boats use the estuary far below.

Its worshippers must have seen a great variety of ships and boats use the estuary far below.

By 1914 the Cinema De Luxe had a rival 200 yards away, the Whitehall, which prominently advertises its wares to the fascination of passers-by.

One of Askrigg's main industries was clockmaking, and it is said that more timepieces were made here than anywhere else in the North Riding.

This is a petrifying well, similar to the one at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects which fall into it.

All except the building on the far left survive now, although Daniell and Sons is now The Stockwell Arms pub.

In years gone by, the river Parrett carried a large volume of traffic.

This view and view No 79002 show how Staithes nestles in the shadow of the two mighty cliffs.

At Cheesewring, a mile or two from St Cleer, there are dozens of mysterious stone monuments on the moor. They include megalithic stone circles, standing stones and old Celtic carved crosses.

Here we see the town's monument to the memory of those from Eccles who gave their lives during two world wars.

Once a small village just a few miles west-south-west of Stockport, Gatley was chosen in the 1840s as the site for the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital.

The western one is architecturally less interesting, but there are statues of Wellington and Nelson on the green: Wellington's moved here from the market-place in 1937, Nelson's in 1856.

The road curves attractively to the bowed end of the 18th-century Town Hall. The gilded swan now faces to the left.

Looking across from the war memorial in Windsor End, this view shows the range of fine historic buildings, with Georgian and early 19th- century refrontings to earlier Tudor buildings that so characterise

Broad Street is the town's most fashionable shopping street, though the busy traffic of today prevents dogs lying down in the road!

The boating business is still there; it is now called Hearts Cruises, and has a wider range of boats than in 1919.