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With the camera a relatively unknown instrument in those days, the photographer invariably attracted a gaggle of village children as he went to work.

On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

About two miles west of Hailsham is Upper Dicker, which has a Gothic-style church. Standing on a hill at a crossroads is the unusual house named The Dicker, built in 1908 for Horatio Bottomley MP.

From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.

This fine gabled building with huge chimneys is situated on the edge of the town, set in typical English parkland with lakes and rare trees.

The Queen's Head Hotel, now shops, used to stand just across Matlock Bridge (from where this photograph was taken) on the way south towards Derby.

It incorporates part of the 15th-century Prior Overton's Tower. Note the ornate, ball-topped entrance gate columns, and the earlier priory remains incorporated into the garden walls.

Behind the signpost directing travellers to Dorking and Guildford is the lych gate leading to the churchyard of the small Norman church with its shingled spire.

On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera.

The famous evangelist the Rev C H Spurgeon, who visited Mullion in 1872, was obviously impressed by the locals: 'If I were asked to select the Cornish parish which contains the greatest number of intelligent

The people to the right are enjoying a walk along the miner's route of the Stepaside line, which transported anthracite from the Stepaside area via Wiseman's Bridge, first by horse-drawn

Pandering to the needs of motorists, the first Railway Inn was pulled down in the 1930s to make way for a larger establishment.

The narrow and winding Main Street seen here is typical of most White Peak villages, and is definitely not built for modern traffic.

Even in the 1950s cars did not dominate the roads of Dorset, except during holidays and at weekends.

This hostelry, in Pevensey's High Street, is one of the ancient town's historic buildings standing opposite the east gate to Pevensey Castle.

An admiring crowd of children - one with a hoop - and some adults linger at this cross-roads hamlet in the High Weald near Ticehurst.

This view shows Curbar and Baslow Edges in the background, with the houses of the village filling the dale in the foreground.

This time, two children are filling their bucket from the fountain, and the George and Dragon Hotel, which welcomed members of the Cyclists' Touring Club, is the prominent building on the right.

The house consists of four ranges built round a courtyard. On the right here is the south range, which includes the parlour and great chamber.

This was the second section of promenade to be constructed, with work beginning in 1891. Before this, the river frontage would have been largely open to the shore.

The High Street runs along the mile long Roman road within the small market town of Cowbridge.

This view from the banks of the River Great Ouse looks towards the village, with the tower mill in the distance.

Bason Bridge is part of East Huntspill village. Here a railway ran alongside the Brue from Highbridge to Glastonbury.