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By the mid 1950s, the Bridge Inn had a flint porch, thatched to match the roof. The area outside had been made into an attractive garden where refreshments purchased at the annexe could be enjoyed.

Rows of stone cottages surround the Cross in Geddington village centre, built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I.

Wilfred Pickles used to tell a story about a mother and her son at a guest house. He had a broad accent, which embarrassed his mum.

Wilfred Pickles used to tell a story about a mother and her son at a guest house. He had a broad accent, which embarrassed his mum.

These gates, with agricultural implements incorporated, are situated at the Holly Lodge on the Boughton Road west of the village.

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

Skegness owed its popular success to the railway, which reached here in 1873 as an extension from the then terminus at Wainfleet.

At the Stamford Road end of the street, the newly-built showroom of Tutty's sold kitchen units and appliances. Newman's next door was an old-fashioned ironmongers, which has resisted change.

A 'new style' double-decker bus pulls up at the Library bus stop. Piccadilly Buildings, opposite, were designed to harmonise with the Library.

The Blue Bell was kept by F Glossop, who was also a maltster; the landlord at the White Hart was Thomas Booth; and William Clark ran the Three Crowns.

In the mid-1950s Royston still appears to be a place of cloth caps and head-scarves, and apart from a handful of little differences we could just as easily be looking at Royston in the mid-1930s.

As Sheffield expanded, a number of turnpike toll bars which had once been in the country were now located within built-up areas.

On the right is the Swan, the only hotel in the city in the 1920s to be RAC and AA listed.

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

THE MAIN EAST-WEST thoroughfare in Bearsden, one of Glasgow's northern suburbs, is named Roman Road, for it follows the line of a roadway constructed by the Romans in AD 142 along the south side

In 1635 the town archery butts stood at the eastern entrance to Twickenham in Richmond Road - a reminder of the need for a standing army in a constant state of readiness for war abroad.

There have been several royal visitors to Basildon over the years.

The Antonine Wall is being put forward as a World Heritage site, in collaboration with Germany, Austria and Hungary to mark the European boundary of the Roman Empire.

The first sod of the railway line at Clitheroe was cut on 30 December 1846.

At the top of the High Street on the right is the Cowes Advertiser office, but just before that is the NSPCC charity shop.

We are looking from just inside Birmingham Road up Castle Hill, with Tipton Road off to the right. On the extreme left is the Station Garage, then an Austin dealership.

Situated three miles south of Rhyl, Rhuddlan was once a strategic location, as it was the lowest point at which the Clwyd could be crossed.

A former royal manor, Bray is well known for the song 'The Vicar of Bray', celebrating the vicar who changed sides several times during the Civil War and after to keep his living.

Few buildings remain which pre-date the Enclosure Acts, effectively extinguishing the ties within rural communi- ties in much of Leicestershire, and indeed the Midland counties.