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Little can be usefully gleaned from the remains shown here, but it is known that Dorchester was a centre for a school of mosaicists in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

Two grim buildings from the last decade of the nineteenth century.

This was the period that saw the beginning of the end for the town - in 1959 the last steel works closed, followed in 1987 by the last iron works.

Café, jeweller, dry cleaners and the regional newspaper office make strange bedfellows under the roof of the old Market House.

One of the most famous buildings in Chester, the God's Provident House. The house was originally built in 1652 and rebuilt in 1862.

A view from the harbour with the Sloop Inn at the centre of the picture and with Fish Street leading uphill to the right.

The Anglo-Saxons almost certainly fortified Wallingford, and there was once an important castle here, though little of it survives today.

Cirencester's meandering street pattern developed in medieval times, a departure from the regimented grid system of Roman times.

On the other side of the green are the Reading Rooms and a tiny church.

Mayland is a flat marshy area on Mayland Creek, which empties into the River Blackwater. Although rather bleak in winter, in summer it is a busy centre for sailing.

The closest the railway ever reached to Britain's most southerly spot was Helston, eleven miles away, so visitors had either to come by car or take one of the excursion buses which were run from 1903 by

One could not be any nearer the sea than when you stayed at the Lanzarote Boarding House, the large building on the right of the photograph.

On the right of this photograph is the first Daventry bypass, dating from about 1935. A new bypass superseded it in the 1970s, when Daventry was expanded.

Reg Cundick gives an interesting history of it in his book. On Barclays Bank, left, is a sign for the Warminster Journal, which is still produced by Coates and Parker next door.

The parish church of St Margaret is built from local brown cobbles. The tower has a fine spire divided by two decorative bands above the spire lights.

A charming photograph of children walking along the path beside the pool, which is half a mile upstream on the river Cam from Grantchester.

Sandilands can be found just to the south of Sutton on Sea.

Its elaborate and recently restored war memorial stands on the junction with Church Lane. The main feature of the village, once dependant upon coal mining, is now Downside Abbey and School.

Its striking building is seen here in the centre of the picture. Unlike many similar local newspapers, it has survived to the present day at its Richmond Hill offices.

The coaster 'Depa' eases her way into the city dock with a cargo of timber.

Later housing faces Victorian buildings on the edge of this large village. In days gone by, Sapcote was a centre for cheese-making and the framework knitting industry.

During the Hundred Years War Lymington supplied far more ships for Edward III's invasion of France than neighbouring Portsmouth did.

In Tudor times, the castle became the home of the Wyatt family.

Styled the 'capital' of Weardale, Stanhope was once an important centre for the lead-mining industry.