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These lovely almshouses of 1703 feature a striking life-size statue of a scarlet-coated Robert Berkeley in a niche on the chapel.

Another view of Greyfriars, this time showing the impressive front elevation.

This photograph of Loftus High Street shows the raised ground to the right known as the 'embankment'.

The Deri is one of the seven peaks surrounding the picturesque town of Abergavenny.

It shows the flagstaff with Cook's ship 'Resolution' on top.

Exmouth enjoyed live theatre quite early on, as seaside resorts go.

Again looking back towards the church, this picture gives a good idea of the size of the Square, with the Market Hall on the left.

It was local landowner Colonel Tomline who promoted a railway and a new dock in Felixstowe, in the hope of being able to compete with the port of Harwich across the Orwell Estuary.

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods.The local people call this 'Hallelujah Corner' because it is a sharp bend on a narrow and busy main road, near the church

Aberystwyth's castle was one of a line of coastal fortresses built by Edward I to impose his will upon the Welsh.

Situated in Appleton, to the north of central Widnes, St Bede's is a reminder of the then recent change in the status of Britain's Roman Catholics.

Coping stones now surround the edge of the lake, and the arch of roses that spanned Picklefoot Spring at the point where it emerges has been constructed.

Roebucks are the males of the roe deer, whose herds once roamed this attractive landscape along the western fringe of the Lancashire hills.

This vast open Market Hall was constructed in 1875, and the roof, carried on elaborately decorated cast-iron pillars and supports, covers an area of some 3,500 square yards.

Totton, Eling's larger neighbour, once claimed the title of the 'largest village in Hampshire' —though it has expanded so much in recent years that by no stretch of the imagination could it still

We are looking north along the jetty towards the hexagonal Jetty Extension of 1877.

The magnificent art deco Tinside Lido and Swimming Pool, completed in 1933, was a popular venue for genera- tions of Plymouth children, mainly during the summer holidays, as the salt-water pool had no

There are three village greens in Catterick, the village on the old A1 Great North Road which most people associate with the nearby army garrison.

At this time, Easington was one of six large pits situated along the coast of County Durham; the others were Wearmouth, Vane Tempest, Dawdon, Seaham and Horden.

Jarrow's seven-acre pedestrian shopping precinct opened for business in February 1961; it was all part of a grand scheme to rid the town of its cloth cap image and to drag it into the modern age.

Apparently transplanted from Romanesque Italy, this remarkable church in yellow and red brick was funded by the great-niece of the Duke of Wellington, Lady Victoria Wellesley.

On the east bank of the Cuckmere River opposite Alfriston, Lullington is very much a shrunken medieval village, with its isolated church a good quarter of a mile north of Lullington Court, the farm complex

The hedge at the right belongs to the churchyard of Holy Trinity, a somewhat unattractive Neo-Norman church of 1843.

The Park was laid out by Edward Davis, a pupil of Sir John Soane, the architect of the old Bank of England, and opened in 1830.