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Not something that would happen today with any degree of safety, a gentleman poses for the camera in the middle of the street.

Here we see the south side of Wimborne's square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town.

One of the town's most famous sons was Gustav Holst, born in 1874, a pupil at Cheltenham Grammar School.

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary. It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.

Between the wars, Brighton boomed: by the mid-1930s it was packed at weekends.

Belvoir Castle is picturesquely situated some six miles to the west of Grantham, at the foot of a narrow spur jutting up between Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

Set on the banks of the River Yare, Cantley is dominated by its sugar refinery, which was built to process local beet.

Ludham sits on 'high' ground, which in Broadland can be just a few feet above sea level. The flat lands around are threaded by three great rivers, the Thurne, Ant and Bure.

The statues on the parapet are holding rocks or boulders, and are ready to throw them at any invader.

Erroneously known at the time when this photograph was taken as the Druids' Circle, the Castlerigg Stone Circle just outside Keswick is dramatically set in an amphitheatre of hills, including Skiddaw

The quay at Appledore, built in 1846, still stands; but these coastal trading schooners, once the lifeblood of trading along this north Devon coast, are now only memories, superseded by motor transport

Designed by Eugenius Birch, the doyen of pier architects, the pier opened in 1870. Its first theatre seated 400, and cost a mere £250 – it eventually became a cattle-shed at Lewes!

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

This view looks towards the Jubilee Clock Tower, with Lumley Road to its left.

The 1920s motorist appears well catered for, with both garaging and petrol to hand.

Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town.

The 1906 Baedecker Guide states that 'in July and August especially, Douglas and its neighbourhood are practically the playground for the operatives of Lancashire and Yorkshire, but at other seasons and

Situated to the south of Peel on what is now the A27 road to Colby via Round Table, Glen Maye opens to the sea. It is a great place for those who like to scramble over rocks and paddle in pools.

Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey. The present buildings date from the 13th to the 16th centuries, though some earlier Norman features survive.

The town of Romsey is known for its associations with two distinguished Englishmen.

This view of the village's main road was taken looking east. It had long since replaced the Old Road which branched off left behind the photographer and forded the river at one point.

The pub which gave the important road junction its name has existed since at least 1765, when a court sat there. The building in this picture was completed in 1816 and demolished in 1898.

A view of the Archbishop of Canterbury`s official residence when Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher, who crowned the Queen, was primate. The gatehouse was completed about 1495.

Haigh Hall was designed by the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford for himself and built at a cost of £100,000 between c1832 and 1840.