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Within the vestry of the abbey at the south-west end are stained glass windows dating from 1928.

St Giles's Church is virtually unique in possessing an apse at its west end - apses (rounded ends) usually occur at the east of churches.

Lightermen pose on barges at low tide at one of the many working wharves.

Ipswich, at the head of the Orwell Estuary, has been a major port for centuries. Here, a sailing barge negotiates the lock gates.

The narrow Trebarwith valley emerges at the north Cornish coast; here Trebarwith Strand presents a good beach of golden sand, but all vanishes at high tide.

The open-topped bus receiving a great deal of attention from the people on the left is travelling along part of the old coaching route.

A charming village scene that has scarcely changed at all in over 30 years.The old war-time nissen hut, at one time such a familiar sight in the British countryside, has gone, replaced by a car park

The parish church is dedicated to St Modwen, the founder of a 7th-century Christian settlement at Burton.The first monastic house in the county was founded at Burton, endowed by the Saxon thegn,

At nearby Fishlake, the village church is noted for its late Norman doorway. At Thorne the church of St Nicholas has a late 13th-century tower and early 20th-century glass.

The square was resurfaced after the Second World War; we see it here at about the time of Sir Winston Churchill's death, which was in 1965.

It is interesting to note that the old market place was being overtaken by cars as early as 1950, and parking was obviously already a problem.

This view from The King's Head at Newton-under-Roseberry shows the quarried face of Roseberry Topping, known affectionately as 'the Matterhorn of Cleveland', which stands at just over 1,000 feet above

This 15th-century cross lies at a crossroads on the Bristol to Weston-super-Mare road; the adjacent Ship and Castle was a coaching inn. Its lower steps have been buried by the raising of the road.

Dunster's High Street was built wide to accommodate markets, and at this point it once held a row of shambles, or butcher's shops, in the middle.

At the time of this photograph, Norwood Road still has tramline points at the junction with Dulwich Road on the right.

At this time Port St Mary was still being described as a 'pleasant little fishing port and seaside resort'. The local fishing fleet was, however, in decline.

Isabella Dorling wrote to her fiancé, Sam: 'I was invited to Mr White's to-morrow evening, so shall have to go through that terrible ordeal, a dinner party'.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

Just look at those poor trees! This is the main shopping street, and it leads up to the Victorian clock tower at one end from the railway station at the other.

In the days of Leland, that well-travelled topographer, the Severn was tidal at this point and large vessels reached the bridge at Upton; the bridge was the only crossing point on the river, apart from

This view of Waterhead shows the Waterhead Hotel, built to serve the increasing numbers of tourists who were arriving by train at the lakeside station at Bowness, and catching a steamer up

St Peter's at Formby was built in 1739 to replace the 12th-century chapel at Raven Meols which was gradually being covered over with shifting sand.

Washington, at the crossroads of two ancient routes, lies at the northern head of a 'wind gap' in the undulating chalk downland of high ridges and dry valleys.