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Because of the flat roads, bicycles were in abundance both on the streets and greens, so much so that they caused problems for pedestrians.

The chapel of St Thomas once stood on Holywell Street, but even in the 1830s it was little more than a ruin, much of its stone having been taken for other buildings.

Along with the building to the left, it is now part of an amusement arcade, yet much of the original façade remains intact.

Henry Frederick, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk left his estate to his fourth son, Charles Howard of Greystoke, when he died in 1652.

Fleetwood was founded in 1836 by Sir Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, and laid out to the designs of Decimus Burton, who designed the North Euston Hotel, Queen's Terrace and both lighthouses.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

Just after the end of the First World War the town suffered a serious loss with the closure of Days' Brewery.

This picture gives some indication of the scale of operations at Vauxhall Motors.

THE opening of a new shop was almost a weekly occurrence when Basildon town centre sprang into life in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

The First Developments The first houses to be built were in a small pocket in Vange; No 61 Redgrave Road was the first to be occupied - the Walker family moved in in June 1951.

Situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff, Barry was the last of the great Welsh coal ports to be developed.

Again we still see the old font in front of the priory arch and a gravel path to the right, long since disappeared, which presumably led to the greenhouse shown in the view of 1885.

The first Norman castle at Cardiff is thought to have been built in c1081, possibly on the site of a Welsh stronghold.

The Grand Union Canal was extended from Leicester to Market Harborough via the dramatic locks at Foxton in 1809.

The obelisk on the bridge and most of the buildings have since been replaced. The church tower belongs to the church of St Peter At Arches, demolished in 1933.

Our brief tour of Lincoln's surrounding villages begins to the west in Doddington village.

Ludford is a now a single-street village on the Louth to Gainsborough road at the head of the River Bain, which flows south through the Wolds to join the River Witham.

By 1870 the 'New Town' not only covered the small parish of Crawley, but also parts of its neighbours, Ifield and Worth.

This extraordinary old manor house had been bereft of its famous author owner, Charles Dickens, for 24 years when this picture was taken. Dickens died here on 9 June 1870 at the age of 58.

This village, archaeologists believe, is the 'Cloveshoo' of Saxon times - known then as a big town with several ancient councils. Its full name is Cliffe-at-Hoo.

In this village churchyard there is a 19th-century memorial to thirty hop pickers who drowned when their cart slipped over a crumbling bridge and dragged them into the depths of the River Medway.

This picture was taken from the entrance to the church.

The main road we see in this photograph is the busy A343 Andover to Salisbury route. At the foot of the hill is a junction. Left is for Nether Wallop and right is for Over Wallop.

The convergent flying buttresses of the 1907 Trinity Methodist Church spire soar above the mock-Tudor frontages over the parade of shops at the start of Cheam Road, with the Edwardian cupola of the Curzon