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At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct. Here primroses and bluebells grow in profusion in the pretty College Woods.

While wheat straw is often used as the roofing material, the chances are that these houses will be thatched with longer-lasting reed from the Broads.

A farm worker and child standing in a freshly harvested cornfield.

The broad expanse of the A24 London Road heading towards Stonecot Hill and Morden is lined with parked cars and bicycles outside the shops.

The High Street again, and a much busier scene is shown. The road is the A30 London to the west of England road which, even in 1955, could become horribly congested, especially at summer weekends.

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

The reed-beds on the right of the picture have been cut, and the reeds will be used for thatching roofs.

Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

The broad expanse of the Promenade stretching east to Sandgate is still as popular with visitors today as it was with the Victorian and Edwardian holidaymakers who visited this Cinque Port, and whose continued

For travellers to Cornwall, crossing the broad, sweeping waters of the Tamar deepened the sensation that they were entering a foreign land.

Westbourne, on the west side of Bournemouth, retains a village atmosphere even today, with spacious houses and hotels situated around an attractive woodland chine leading down to the sea.

The fountain in the centre of Wigton's Square or Market Place has a pyramidal cross-topped spire, and depicted on its four sides are the four Acts of Mercy.

The Parish Staithe at Barton is a lovely backwater off the broad.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

The broad High Street, once the site of the market established under a charter from Edward I, was, at the turn of the last century, still very much a rendezvous for the cattle and sheep farmers of the

Barricane Beach is behind the camera, and we see the broad expanse of Woolacombe sands stretching away south towards Croyde.

This peaceful view looks up Holywell Hill towards the city centre, as it dips towards the river and the curative spring from which it takes its name, with, on the right, one of the fine Georgian houses

Once upon a quieter time, the broad street through the village was perfect for a fair.

The broad expanse of what had been Ashford's original market place and a rendezvous for Kent's sheep and cattle farmers had, by the mid 1950s, been bisected by a central traffic reservation and new road

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

From the bottom of Valley Road the camera captures a crowded South Beach scene, and a bay full of sail-driven fishing boats.

This, the most westerly town in England, has been raided down the centuries by Spanish ships and by pirates.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.