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By the mid-1960s the university had embarked on an ambitious expansion programme complemented with an equally impressive building scheme.

Hamilton Square was laid out in 1826 by Gillespie Graham on the lines of an Edinburgh square.

A strange-looking craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal. The pretty tower of the 14th-century church is clearly visible here.

Commoners could gather thatch for roofs, cut rushes to strew on the floor, dig sods of turf for fuel, catch wildfowl, and fish in the numerous small lakes as well as putting cattle, sheep and horses

On the downs above Osmington is this famous hill-figure of George III, 108 yards high and 93 yards long.

The artist Thomas Gainsborough was born here in a former 16th-century inn, and he lived and worked here for a number of years.

Eight years later, the South Pavilion at the end of the pier was destroyed by fire.

The gardens were used as the site for Orleans Park Secondary School in the 1970s, and all that now remains of the once celebrated landscape is a small garden next to the Octagon Gallery where the

Because of its situation on the Wash, Hunstanton is the only east coast resort where you can watch the sun set over the sea!

Despite a great deal of demolition in the 1950s, Bishop's Cleeve boasts many fine old buildings.

It was powered by the head waters of the River Ant, canalised in 1826 as the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

She has drawn her row boat up on the sand alongside the ivy-encrusted boathouse. All around is a scene of utter rural peace.

Horses graze the rich meadows that keep the waters of the Bure from the village street. Here are handsome pantile-roofed red-brick houses. A rotted hulk squats in a narrow inlet.

The road and rail bridge were built in 1856; today another bridge, built in 1970, runs alongside it, built with money from the Bridge Trust of 1391.

Most of Balliol's buildings, by Salvin and Butterfield, are 19th-century.

Didcot is famous for being a major junction on the Western Region main line.

Built on the estuary of the Stour, and close to Manningtree, this is a fascinating town. The large buildings behind the barge are maltings, now being converted into living accommodation.

Known in Petersfield as 'the Pond' and created out of three very boggy areas in 1732, this spot has never ceased to attract visitors from miles around.

Two RAC patrolmen saunter past the Hook Road post office (right), ignoring the few motor vehicles on the road.

The road leading to the Dee estuary is relatively peaceful in 1960, and the roundabout, resplendent with flower beds, is a reminder of earlier civic pride in such innovations.

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.

The Gothic-style monument at the end of the road is still in place; it is a drinking fountain presented to the town by the Hon Mark Rolle in 1870. The building on the left is the town hall.

The building is on the site of previous houses owned by the Rishton family; Dunkenhalgh then passed to the Walmsleys, until Catherine Walmsley married Robert the seventh Lord Petre.

The gothic architecture seen here remained an enthusiasm for builders and architects throughout much of the Victorian period.