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The small hamlet of slate-roofed farm houses and cottages lies at the end of a lane near Black Head, sheltered in the valley which climbs up from Hallane Beach.

At Higher Porthpean, the robust chapel of ease, dedicated to St Levan, was built in 1885 and financed by Lady Graves-Sawle of Penrice at a cost of £1,000.

Set at the heart of an ancient tin mining district this pleasing old village straddles the Tamar. The goods sidings at the station recall Cornwall's past prosperity based on the mining of tin.

A Dreadnought tramcar approaches the terminus at Queen's Gate. At this time the Blackpool and Fleetwood tramway systems were separate concerns, and even lacked a connecting line.

Part of the Devizes 29 is this set of 16 locks at Caen Hill.

An industrial town situated at the joining of the river Dar and river Cynon. At the beginning of the 19th Century Aberdare was a village within an agricultural district.

The 'Wyresdale' is ready to depart from the slade to Fleetwood across the river Wyre. Two people are fishing at high water.

The main road looks empty and quiet but in March 1928 there were several instances of speeding. A motor-cycle was recorded going at 37 mph and a car at 45 mph over a measured distance.

We travel back to the London Road, and at the entrance to the Staff College, we find the War Memorial, erected in 1922 at a cost of £433.

Taken from the abbey roof, this photograph shows the 15th-century market cross in the centre, situated at the north end of the High Street.

At one time sheep from Romney Marsh in Kent were wintered here on the relatively dry sandy Surrey Hills.

At first a mixed college for primary and secondary school teachers, it then became a women's college for teachers for primary and nursery schools only, with an associated college for male teachers

This solid structure, with its massive piles and defences, hints at the treacherous seas seafarers confronted off the Norfolk coast.

Even so, the population then was about 6000.The town's development received a boost in 1945 when Rover announced their intention to abandon their Coventry plant and concentrate production at their

This narrow street runs north deep into legal London from the beginning of Fleet Street, near Temple Bar.

Polar bears, brown bears and black bears were all kept in the same rather basic enclosure at the Flamingo Zoo Park at Kirby Misperton, between York and Malton, when this picture was taken.

An industrial town situated at the joining of the river Dar and river Cynon. At the beginning of the 19th Century Aberdare was a village within an agricultural district.

Contrast and compare this photograph with the 1950s images of Geddington, and you can see that the village has hardly changed at all in the intervening years.

The Truro River promises visitors exquisite scenery, its broad banks enriched with lush green woods.

Potton's market existed at the beginning of the 13th century, and the town owes much of its present layout to that period. In the early 1900s a count revealed the existence of 32 alehouses.

There is not a port at Bridport, though there was in former times before its river silted up. Now the little harbour at neighbouring West Bay fulfils the function, though on an unambitious scale.

The raised footway at the top of the towers, 140 feet above the level of the river, was closed in 1909 after a spate of suicides.

This comfortable pub, once an inn, lies under Hurstbourne Hill on what was the Andover turnpike to Newbury. It was near here that William Cobbett stayed with Joseph Blount at Rookery Farm.

East of Lincoln, Wragby is a market town on the Horncastle and Skegness road which is very busy at weekends and in summer.