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Church Lane leads to the original Botley church, now part of the Manor Farm complex of buildings and used for other purposes.

The late Norman church, with its tower surmounted by a 13th-century shingled spire, was built around 1160 and stands in its small churchyard shaded by a selection of conifer trees.

A small party is enjoying a game of tennis on the rocky beach. Despite the warm weather they are sweltering under their many layers of heavy clothing.

This lane dips precipitously down into the valley of the Kensey and St Thomas's Church. On a rise in the distance is the church of St Stephen.

Since this picture was taken, the 'village' has undergone further housing developments which mean that it has become a suburb of Abergavenny.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

Among the many monuments within the church is the tomb of Lady Dorothy Wadham, the sister of Queen Jane Seymour.

Two young lads stand by the harbour wall with their strings of onions. With their grimy jackets and trousers, they give every impression of having endured an uncomfortable passage.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

When the Deanery Tower was built in the latter part of the 15th century by Suffolk's Archdeacon William Pykenham, it was supposed that it would be the gateway to a palace.

The lamp on the left lights the alley to Tymperleys, a superb late 15th-century timber-framed house, now a clock museum.

In the sixteenth century one of Glasgow University's leading academics was Andrew Melville. Melville had studied in France and taught at Calvin's academy in Geneva.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

The building was originally part of a string of coastal defences built by Henry VIII from Portland to Southsea. An early owner was Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor Christopher Hatton.

This sheltered harbour lies east of Ilfracombe. At its head is Watermouth Castle, built in 1825 for Joseph Davie Bassett.

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

Bigbury-on-Sea lies on the shores of Bigbury Bay within site of Burgh Island, which may give the village its name.

In the early 19th century, Bradford had thirty-two cloth factories and Holy Trinity was the church of the clothiers.

The staff of Askrigg post office pose for the cameraman.

This is the long, staid High Street of this small village on the banks of the river Lea viewed from the opposite direction from photograph No 81859, with the Pied Bull over on the left, and the bow-fronted

It was rural, bucolic scenes like this one at 600-acre Quince Farm that inspired Tennyson to write a poem of 47 words while visiting the area one summer's day in the 1860s.

Children's wear apart, this view is unchanged save the removal of the trellis to the left-hand front of the house. Needless to say, the trees have also grown a little.

Iona is the oldest Christian burial ground in Scotland and contains the graves of many kings and chieftains.

No longer a village, but a residential suburb of Wolverhampton, Penn spreads for miles along the dual carriageway we see here.