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Louth was a prosperous, compact market town serving a large area of the central Wolds.

This is a well-kept Garden of Remembrance in the centre of this large village; next door is the County Library.

The tower of St James' Church is still the original Spilsby greenstone, but the rest of the church has been faced with the stronger limestone, hence the different colour.

A port at the mouth of the Arun, and once a Tudor royal shipyard, the old town runs east from the river bank.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The small village is famous for its waterfall and for being the home of William Morgan, vicar of Llanrhaeadr and 16th-century translator of the Bible into Welsh.

The natural springs at Leamington were known about in the 17th century, and were mentioned by a number of writers.

It is Saturday in Kingston Market Place, and swarms of shoppers have descended to see the fresh produce on offer that might supplement the wartime rationing that was still in force.

This view was taken from the top of School Hill, looking across the Dee Estuary towards the Clwydian Hills.

Lloyds Bank (left) was one of the most impressive of a number of buildings in the area, which was subjected to clearance and demolition in 1972.

One of two Hertfordshire inns with cross-street signs (the other is the Four Swans at Waltham Cross), the Fox and Hounds moved to its present site in 1955 after a disastrous fire at the old building in

Following the end of the Second World War, a large number of returning servicemen opted for a university education, and by 1947 Sheffield uni- versity's student population had more than doubled to

West Dorset's medieval seamark on a conical hill above the Chesil Beach was retained after the closure of Abbotsbury Abbey in 1539, and repaired in 1742.

Dunster is one of the most picturesque of Somerset's small towns; its long Market Place rises from the Yarn Market, or market cross, an octagonal structure of 1589, to the castle gatehouse with the castle

In the late 1870s the Grammar School boys had lost a corner of their cricket field when a new area was being laid out for the weekly market.

Bilston had a lock-making industry of sorts in the 16th century but it remained fairly static; along with Pontypool, Bilston was an early centre for japanning—the copying of Japanese goods by English

Beneath the church is an ambulatory, which contains a collection of human remains.

Wood and parts of the ship soon sank into the sand, but the bales of cotton did not.

Originally owned by the Priory of St Bartholomew The Great, the estate was acquired in 1709 by James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos.

An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.

in recognition of contributions to National War Savings.

The number of parked cars is perhaps an indication of the traffic problems to come in later years.

The busy port on the River Liffey, showing several steamers with smoking funnels waiting to depart and, on the right, a forest of masts of sailing ships.

Happily, many individual shops of fine character selling a wide variety of goods have survived.