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The Post Office (left) also advertises Bronte books and postcards, while the Bronte Guest House is visible behind the antiques shop (right centre).

A contemporary guide book extolled Bournemouth's climate: 'it is perhaps most beneficial to invalids during the fall of the year and the early spring, when it will compare favourably with many of the Mediterranean

The village store in Holcombe Rogus is consigned to the history books, although a local garage now sells some of the items offered here.

At the time of this photograph it was already 'much resorted to in summer by picnic parties', said a guide-book.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

Mention of a Roman signal station in the Domesday Book in 1086 dates the history of this area back as far as the fourth century.

The Victorian guide book writer J Burney Yeo complained that the new town had 'no esplanade or promenade' and found the burgeoning resort very dull in comparison with others.

A few miles west from Grimsby, the village of Laceby once appeared in the Guinness Book of Records as possessing the two closest pubs – The Waterloo and The Nags Head.

He kept a 'little shanty' on the cliffs to which it was his habit to retire, to 'be alone with his books, his thoughts and with God'.

By the time of Domesday Book, 'Bexelei' was recorded as a small village, which had scarcely recovered from the Norman invasion.

The words are first quoted in Thomas Fuller`s 1662 book Worthies of England.

This is now the Rashleigh Arms, named after the family who still own the village and live at nearby Menabilly House, immortalised as Manderley by Daphne du Maurier in her book 'Rebecca'.

He did much of his early oral history recording in the village; this formed the basis of many books, including 'Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay' in 1956.

He kept a 'little shanty' on the cliffs to which it was his habit to retire, to 'be alone with his books, his thoughts and with God'.

The heavily-restored church dates from the 13th century, and inside are a book showing the names of all the 350 victims of the plague, and the chair used by the rector, William Mompesson.

The truth, however, is far less fearsome. Some old guide books claim the name derives from the sloe (or blackthorn) tree, but it more likely comes from 'slough', meaning a muddy place.

We are looking across Irby Road and along Thigwall Road.

This is down-town Lydney in the days when books could be loaned from the newsagents for a few coppers a week via the Argosy Lending Library, and a liquid night out at the Fleece could be had for less than

There are many articles of interest from the past kept at the school, including Mary Queen of Scots' book of hours and Bonny Prince Charlie's flask.

There are many articles of interest from the past kept at the school, including Mary Queen of Scots' book of hours and Bonny Prince Charlie's flask.

Mentioned in the Domesday Book, the present building dates from the fifteenth century.

By the 1880s the shoeblack societies had four hundred boys on their books. A number were given cheap board and lodging.

The village of Rushton is mentioned as Riston or Risetone in the Domesday Book.

The name 'Leece' refers to a woodland clearing; in the Domesday Book it is recorded as land held for the king.