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This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

This Norman building of about 1170 is a remarkable survival of a medieval trade guild’s hall and chambers and is now the base of the Lincoln Civic Trust.

19th-century cockfights in the churchyard of St Mary Major were a source of complaint for the head- mistress of Ilchester's 'little' school, established in the building that obscures the

The parish church of St Mary is here seen under scaffolding. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the remainder of the building was rebuilt in the 1850s.

Traditional Norfolk cottages with thatched roofs and flint walls are built on the edge of a large village green: this kind of green-edge or common-edge settlement is characteristic of Norfolk.

Slater's Directory of 1876 lists this lovely Tudor mansion as Ferns Hall; it was supposed to date from 1557, but the earliest visible datestone over the porch is of 1696.

Thorpe is two miles east of Norwich; it became a popular spot for Sunday outings from the mid 19th century, despite the disapproval of some church authorities in the city.

Its size indicates the former status of the produce belonging to the church that was stored there, harvested from land once owned by the bishopric of Worcester.

One of the most important cross- village links, Gores Lane appears under one guise or another on all the oldest maps of Formby.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

The tranquil village of Whitwell lies directly under the flightpath of aircraft landing at Luton Airport.

Laindon took its name from the River Lyge, a lost tributary of the River Crouch, which rose from the hill on which St Nicholas's Church stands and is responsible for the extreme dampness of the

The origins of the Pierrots go back to the London success of the mime play 'L'Enfant Prodigue', staged in 1891, and they remained in vogue right up to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Duke Bar is on the outskirts of Burnley. The Duke of York public house can be seen in the centre of our picture.

Immortalised by Laurie Lee in his autobiography 'Cider With Rosie', Slad and its wooded valley is known throughout the world by millions of readers who have never been there.

This view from the top of Morgan Street shows the 72ft-high ornamental clock tower and three of the four roads that lead from the Circle.

Most of these houses are still there, but no longer depending on the Battery Wall for protection from the sea.

This photograph of the west front was taken shortly after completion of the Temple Moore restoration, as we can see from the light-coloured stonework around the window, buttresses and parapets

Abbotsbury, situated at the western end of Chesil Beach, is most famous for its swannery, the waters of the Fleet often being turned white with hundreds of birds.

Penkridge was important in Saxon times, and in 958 Edgar of Mercia dated a charter from 'the famous place, which is called Penric'.

The imposing, dominant, west front of the cathedral is, architecturally, its least satisfying feature. It was much restored in the 19th century.

The Roundabout c1960 This is part of modern Cheshunt, with its brash new shopping parade and roundabout with its ornamental fountain, which would not be out of place in one of Hertfordshire's

Standing at the head of the Teign estuary, Newton Abbot underwent a remarkable growth, tripling its size after the arrival of the railway in 1846.

The market town of Wantage is famous as the birthplace of King Alfred, who was born here in 849 AD.