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The weatherboarded Spring Hotel, in the background at the junction of Chessington Road and Kingston Road, was once a farmhouse, until this stretch of the highway was created in 1834.

Main Street here leads up to Beeford Road in the direction of the 13th-century church of All Saints, with its circular churchyard.

The last view in the book looks south-east along the High Street past the long terrace of 1850s cottages on the left.

Today, Brockworth is altogether urbanised, a suburb of Gloucester.

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the type of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-storey terraces

This picture, on the banks of the River Towy, was obviously taken in the fishing season, where coracles were used for their convenience.

At one time, flocks of sheep and herds of cattle congregated at Tregaron ready for the long walk to England.

The 'longest and fairest' bridge in Cornwall crosses the upper part of the Camel estuary, seen here at high tide.

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

The high windows on the ground floor light the entrance hall, which has a carved wooden frieze depicting crocuses of several kinds.

On the north side of St Paul's Square is the old corn exchange, an uncompromising Victorian building whose foundation stone was laid in October 1872.

In the same way as many other river ports, it lost trade when its waterways could no longer cope with the increasing draughts of cargo ships.

By 1900, Paisley was a smoky industrial town with a population of 80,000.

Lewes, the medieval guardian of the gap through the South Downs cut by the River Ouse, occupies a fine hilltop site which produces a superb townscape.

The Market Place was renamed the Bull Ring in 1910, to recall the 'sport' of bull baiting a century before.

The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929.

The public telephone has been identified by Michael Thomas as a K1 Mark 236 box of 1927, of which about 4,500 were erected, with a roof sign dating from 1929.

The two gables on the left are part of a 15th-century house called The Chantry.

Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele

George Lowe's butcher's shop has pride of place here, next to the emporium of T L Jones.

This 7-foot-tall inscribed stone is shown here on the B3269 road - it was moved here from Castle Dore, but has since been moved nearer the town.

We are looking towards Stair Hole, where the downlands of Dorset meet the sea, is hollowed out by vast caverns, many used by smugglers for centuries.The South West Way Coastal Footpath, once an old

Some things never change: in a rather dull street of 19th- and early 20th-century buildings, on a Midland Red bus route, the Council is digging up the pavement!

Separated from the old town of Warrington by the Mersey and also (since the 1890s) by the Manchester Ship Canal, with Thelwall we are now back in that part of the county that was always Cheshire.