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Zenon Vantini, the first manager of the North Euston Hotel, backed by the Rev John St Vincent Beechey, put forward the idea of a boarding school for boys, and by 1904 the school was flourishing, despite

Beyond the war memorial in this view we glimpse the spire of the church of St John the Baptist, where during the Civil War some 340 troops from the Parliamentarian army were held prisoner.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

When Richard I was away fighting in the Third Crusade, the Mount was seized for John by Henry de Pomeroy, though it was subsequently retaken by Richard, who stationed a permanent garrison here.

The church of St John the Baptist dominates this readily-recognisable street scene on the crown of the hill.

The Guild of St.

The building with the bellcote beyond, now St John's Ambulance Brigade, was built in about 1910 and has recently been shortened, thus exposing more of the gable of No 11 beyond.

In 1895 Elder Dempster had introduced an Avonmouth-Quebec-Montreal summer service, with winter sailings calling at Halifax and St John's, New Brunswick.

Chenies, a mile downstream from Latimer, takes its name from the Cheyne family who held the manor from the 13th century until the 16th century when it passed, through the marriage in 1526

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

Castle Street is 'the finest Georgian street in Cornwall', according to Sir John Betjeman, who knew a thing or two about the county.

This sizeable village nestles in a valley close to two notable landmarks: Lewesdon Hill (894 feet) and Pilsdon Pen, at 909 feet, the highest hill in Dorset.

'This England', as Mark Twain described 'that beauty which is England alone - it has no duplicate'.

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church.

The heart of Georgian Weymouth overlooks the sands from the Gloucester Hotel (top left) and the Royal Hotel (centre left), in a broad sweep around to the Victorian spire of St John's Church and Brunswick

The St Dunstan's factory wing (right) was built in 1919.

The school in the background was founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's, to provide education for 144 boys.

Prominent for many miles, St Mary's has dominated the hill since at least the 12th century.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778.

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.

St Mary's was built between 1877 and 1878 by John Cundall in brick with a prominent steeple.

The church of St John the Baptist is mainly 13th-century and has a wood-shingled broach spire.