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The gardens of many of these erstwhile charitable foundations are havens of peace and tranquillity, away from the bustle of the city.

Until the turn of the 20th century Basildon was just a collection of small villages.

Charlton was the birthplace of Henry Bessemer, inventor of the Bessemer converter.

Boots the Chemists' library (behind us, at the corner of Market Street) was upstairs, approached by a wooden staircase.

This labourer would not dare loiter for the camera in the middle of the street today.

Apart from a plethora of now silent industrial mills, now mostly put to other uses, the steep lanes of Nailsworth are lined with the cottages of former cloth workers. The streets are steep.

Some of the buildings here would appear to be in need of some maintenance. Looming over the rooftops in the background is the vast bulk of the 19th century granary on the quay.

Winchester's High Street boasts a variety of Georgian, Victorian and half-timbered Elizabethan buildings; some of them still have their original shop fronts and doorways.

Torpoint is actually in Cornwall, and its ferry still makes regular journeys across the Tamar, taking workers across to Devonport Dockyard and the City of Plymouth.

Devonport stands to the west of the city of Plymouth, and is the newest of the three towns that make up Devon's largest urban area.

As with so many towns to the west of London, Cranford lies on the old stagecoach route to the fashionable city of Bath.

We are inside the three-sided courtyard of Sizergh Castle, near Kendal. Originally a 14th-century defensive pele tower, Sizergh was the home of the Strickland family.

We are looking in the opposite direction from 72955 (pages 52-53) along the Esplanade, with the tower of the town church of Holy Trinity to the left of the clock tower.

Another view of Sackville Street, looking north to the Nelson Monument. This monument was badly damaged in 1966, and later demolished.

The harbour was begun in 1817, and ever since has been the principal terminus of the Holyhead run.

In the background is St Wilfred's, which was repaired in 1612 at the expense of Sir William Craven. The church houses an 11th-century font and some fragments of Anglo-Saxon sculpture.

The miller looks out over the pool of this old Surrey watermill at Barford, an isolated part of Churt village.

St Mary's was originally part of a Benedictine Priory, one of several founded by King Athelstan.

You cannot leave Lyndhurst in any direction without going through some of the best parts of the New Forest.

In 1898 the rector of Romaldkirk also held the title of Lord of the Manor.

The Technical College was yet another of G G Hoskins' buildings in the town.

A family of youngsters enjoy a spot of shrimping on the beach. On the skyline in the background is the parish church of the Holy Trinity, consecrated just 40 years earlier in 1853.

The Warren House Inn, at over 1400 feet above sea level, has the distinction of being the highest pub in Devon and one of the highest in the country.

Paignton became fashionable with the arrival of the Singer family, who built Oldway Mansion in 1874.