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The Oxfam poster both pre-empts the later popularity of charity-shopping, and also displays an effective line in ironic copywriting. Fading into the distance is the high ground of Thorndon Park.

The picture was taken in the year in which the home was opened by the Prince of Wales. The house was built as a war memorial for the city and county, and provided 130 rooms.

Restorations carried out in the 19th century uncovered a 14th-century painting of the Crucifixion in the Lady Chapel.

The iron footbridge spanning Valley Road can be clearly picked out to the left of and below the Grand Hotel.

Holiday chalets were an important part of the holiday scene when this view of a camp on the north bay was taken.

This great sea wall and jetty dates back to the time of King Edward I, though stormy seas has meant its constant rebuilding and repair. Much of the present structure dates from 1825.

Here we see the village green in Elm, with its recently erected memorial to the men of the village who fell in the Great War.

The village is blessed with fine country houses as well as more modest cottages, built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

Much of Banstead High Street was rebuilt during the 1920s with a series of shopping parades.

Many of the buildings remain, almost unchanged. The post office stands on the right, with a stamp machine on the wall outside.

Crackington Haven, six miles south of Bude, sits in a deep valley in the parish of St Gennys.

The new Old Neptune was a conversion of two cottages; at the time of this photograph it was a local brewer's Tomson & Wotton's house.

This early photograph of the 15th-century Cromford Bridge shows a shadowy black-coated figure in the foreground fishing in the River Derwent.

The newly built Woodnewton Infants School stands close to Rowlett Road, with the trees of Thoroughsale Woods in the background.

Cockermouth is best known as the birthplace of the poet William Wordsworth, and there is a stained glass window memorial to this fact in the parish church of All Saints.

From the area of Miller Ground, sunsets have always been a much-admired Windermere feature, with shafts of silver/ copper light escaping from heavy clouds and crossing the water from Claiffe Heights

Many of the trees on the Green were planted in the 1850s, when prosperous locals were invited to plant a tree for the hefty sum of £5 each.

Perry is a similar drink to cider, but is made from pears instead of apples.

It is a quiet day in Tadcaster's High Street as a cyclist pedals unconcernedly down the middle of the road.

Here on the right is the old town hall, the first offices of Somerset County Council.

Behind the 'No Waiting' sign outside Clark's drapery shop (left), we can glimpse the attractive double curved windows of North's, the chemist.

The Great Ouse is as much a part of Kempston life as it is that of Bedford.

On the left is Wheeler's Hotel, and at the top of the street, just visible, is the hop leaf symbol of Simond's Brewery - once a common sight on local pubs.

That great huntsman William I held the manor of Lyndhurst in his own hands after the land around was taken in as a hunting forest.