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Newgate Street is one of the features of the town -it marks the line of a section of the old Roman road of Dere Street.

In March 1943, one mile to the east of Reculver Towers was cordoned off, and on 11 April Wing Commander Guy Gibson tested the Barnes Wallis 'bouncing bomb' in Reculver Bay.

The New River, whose source is at Amwell Springs, was built at the orders of Sir Hugh Myddleton to supply clean water to London.

Looking at Car No 3 arriving at the Long Causeway Terminus, we can see the entrance to Narrow Street directly ahead.

We can just see St Nicholas' Church and the Tower Building at the very far end. George's Dock was built out from the original shore-line and opened in 1771.

Known as the Queensway Tunnel, it was at the time the only road tunnel under the River Mersey; it had opened in 1934. It soon replaced the car ferries and luggage boats.

Gorleston stands at the gateway of Yarmouth's harbour overlooking the River Yare and the sea. It had long been an old seafaring port, and it burgeoned into a sizeable town in the 19th century.

Bodinnick is a tiny village built on a steep hill on one side of Pont Creek, an estuary of the Fowey River. From here the ferryboats would take the passengers across the fast-flowing river to Fowey.

At Great Haywood Junction, the Trent & Mersey meet the Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal.

From the mid-19th century, Par harbour was a major port for the export of china clay.

This 15th-century building was either an early Moot (Town) Hall or a Guildhall.

The floor of the Royal Exchange was the scene of frantic activity on Tuesdays and Fridays, when at the hour of High Exchange anything up to 6000 men would gather here and shout at one another.

Backed by the tall 52-year-old buildings of the Esplanade, the Parade was Rhyl's only real attempt at elegant seaside architecture.

THE STRAND has always been at the heart of the town, where people met to trade as well as socialise. The market was central to the town's economy for centuries.

This view shows the ornate cast-iron balcony of the Saracen's Head Hotel, now shops, and the tower of St Peter at Arches beyond Stone Bow, built in 1720, demolished in 1933 and largely rebuilt in Lamb

Cattle seek the summer shade and the cool waters of the Bourne at this ancient farm.

The bugler depicted in the pub sign has been replaced, and the old familiar shutters at the windows have gone.

It was well known that the priory had a miraculous section of the True Cross, and a popular exclamation in 14th- and 15th-century texts was 'Oh, Holy Rood of Bromholm!'

Horse-drawn vehicles dominate the street scene as a coach and four with at least 10 passengers approaches.

Witchampton's flour mill closed before the Second World War, but the remains of the huge mill wheel, including its tree trunk shaft, can still be seen outside Flour Mill House.

The Shepherd & Dog (right) is a 300-year-old pub at the top of the hill. The petrol station still exists in an expanded form.

The few people with motor cars park them at will. The ball finial of the Obelisk looks new; it had been replaced in 1907.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

The last two lines of Rupert Brooke's poem 'The Old Vicarage, Grantchester' have immortalised the church: 'Stands the church clock at ten to three/And is there honey still for tea?'