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Ashby Road becomes the High Street at the crossroads (centre); to the left is Packington Hill, and to the right Broadhill Road.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

Banbury is famous for its cross, a nursery rhyme and its cakes. The latter, made with spicy fruit pastry, were first produced in 1638.

The first shop on the left is the post office – it has now moved. Next door is the Bakers Arms pub; in 1961 it was taken over by Mr and Mrs Calder-Smith.

These thatched cottages are on either side of the road to Brent Pelham at the eastern, outer reaches of Anstey.

Billingham Town Centre was developed in the 1950s and 1960s, paid for largely by the local rates from the massive ICI factory in the neighbourhood, which employed almost 20,000 people at that time.

This photograph was taken at almost the same point as N69011. The High Street leads towards Stockton in the centre. The property on the left is little changed today.

Approaching Southborough from Tonbridge, on the right-hand side we have J Martin, the carrier, with a lamp outside; next to him is the butcherís shop of F Hackett, then T Edenborough, a harness maker

Cabbies' fares at this time were: 'Drawn by 1 horse or 2 ponies or mules - One hour or less 3/- (15p) or extra half hour or less 1/6d, 1/- a mile. To Southfield 6d extra. To Primley Park 6d extra'.

Here we see St Michael's Church topped by its original spire (centre right).

This shows the war memorial on the corner of Kingsbury Street which leads to The Green.

The expanding population of Walney meant that a bridge to replace the ferry became essential. It had to be an opening bridge to allow the passage of shipping up the channel to some of the docks.

This photograph is taken from the junction of Market Street and Upper Market Street, looking down towards the High Street.

West of the Market Square the road divides: the left hand road goes to Long Sutton, the right fork heads for Langport.

After the historic riches of Dunster we descend, physically as in other ways, to Blue Anchor Bay, a seaside resort with a long beach and little character.

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

The Sheffield Arms dominates the scene, and still does to this day. The corner shop has gone, and Darley's Ales are not available - the hostelry is now part of the Pubmaster chain.

Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which at one time employed 12,000 people. The sheer size of the building indicates the importance of the railway to the town.

On the right is the Swan, the only hotel in the city in the 1920s to be RAC and AA listed.The city's other leading hotel, the George, was once the main coaching inn and is also the setting for George

We are looking at the medieval Cobb harbour (centre) from the tennis ground on the cliffs south of Langmoor Gardens.

We are looking northwards from below Priory Corner, across urban Portland from Killicks Hill and the school at Clovens Road above Chesil Cove (bottom left), to Chiswell, Fortuneswell (centre) and Castletown

St George's was one of three churches built in Sheffield between 1825 and 1830 that were originally district chapels belonging to the parish church of St Paul's.

Kidderminster owes its fame to the manufacture of carpets, but had prospered from the weaving trade long before that.

Here we see the interior of the chapel as designed by Frederick Barnes in 1859, with the classical sanctuary filled with the organ.