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Before the development of the Tudor-style half-timbered buildings on the north side of the street, the view from the top of the Eastgate looking towards the Cross was much less impressive.

This busy shopping street has buildings of human scale of the 1920s and 30s, with a prominent well-designed Midland Bank sign now replaced by the anonymous HSBC of the Eastern Banking Empire.

Winsford High Street boasted an outlet of the Zan chain of ironmongers.

Little is known of the castle's history, though we know it was besieged by Robert, Earl of Gloucester in 1142 during the troublesome reign of King Stephen.

The Recreation Ground is located to the south of the town, close to the River Wye. The slopes of the valley create a wonderful feeling of space.

It is hard to believe that this classic image of rural England was actually taken three years into the reign of Queen Elizabeth II and not at the beginning of the 20th century.

St Mary's Butts is in the centre of Reading. The chequerboard flint and limestone tower of the church of St Mary's is a distinctive local landmark. The church dates back to Saxon times.

This general view of Northbrook Street shows the gable end to the left of the shop front, above which is a clock, which is all that remains of cloth-maker John Smallwood's house.

The ancestral home of the earls of Devon is open to visitors; it has a large herd of deer roaming the finre grounds overlooking the River Exe. This belvedere was built in 1773.

Much of Victorian Newton Abbot was constructed under the watchful eyes of the influential local Courtenay family who owned much of the land.

Much of Victorian Newton Abbot was constructed under the watchful eyes of the influential local Courtenay family who owned much of the land.

This splendid red-brick Tudor house was once Chillington Manor, home of the Wyatts; one of the family, Sir Thomas the younger, led the rebellion against Queen Mary's marriage to Philip of

Here we see the type of tile-hung and weatherboarded cottages which abound in this area. The white fencing around the cottage gardens is very typical of villages in the Weald of Kent.

From opposite the Dog and Gun Pub, the camera looks along the straight village street with its assortment of restrained houses, hedges and walls.

The flat landscape of the Broads is broken by windmills, church towers, or the masts of sailing boats.

The photos displayed in the window of WH Smith (left) give us a flashback of the pop stars of the mid-sixties - Gene Pitney, the Bachelors, and possibly a newish group called the Beatles.

To increase the trade of the local estate, Charlotte Bethell, the wife of the lord of the manor, financed this three-mile long canal, which opened in 1802. 90-ton keelboats brought coal to Leven and returned

Gone the row of cottages, probably only thirty years old when the photograph was taken, and now gone is the Red House, an 18th-century building behind its boundary wall, but out of sight to the extreme

Taking its name from the south gate to Enfield Chase, and overlooking the Lea Valley, Southgate was a part of Edmonton until the late 19th century.

On the left of this photograph of the High Street is the boarded-up shop of E Wraight, cycle agent. The Wraight brothers were also builders, blacksmiths and undertakers.

This view typifies the unforgettable appeal of Kersey: brick, timber and plastered houses are raised to allow for the slope, with higher and higher steps to the front doors, and there is

At the end of Soss Lane, beyond the railway line, are two former pump houses with tall chimneys; their steam-powered beam engines are situated on the Mother Drain which runs parallel to the River Idle

From suburban West Bridgford we move east along the A52 to Radcliffe, its village centre some 300 yards south of the River Trent.

Judging by the clothes worn by the two ladies on the right, it is thought that this photograph was taken in the late 1940s. They are passing two of the main food shops of the town.