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In 1863 the boxer Bob Fitzsimmons was born in a thatched cottage at the top of Wendron Street.

This picture shows a world of long ago, when feudal order had yet to fall, and higher powers decided what was and was not allowed - as the simple sign about dogs informs us.

This closer picture provides a clearer view of the power station operations.

Somerleyton Hall dates back to Elizabethan times, although it was extensively rebuilt in 1846 by Sir Samuel Morton Peto, who made his fortune out of the railways.

The house on the right appears derelict, and the stone stairs have seen better days.

This Thames-side town was once famed for its abbey, now almost entirely vanished; its stone was used for the building of Hampton Court.

A train approaches the down platform of this station on the Horsham to Guildford Railway, which opened in 1865 and is long since closed.

The houses indicate the line of Parkstone Road.

Just around the corner from Mevagissey, this charming view places the little cove and hamlet in their context admirably, with the outline of Black Head in the distance and a few fishing boats on the water

The statue at the end is of Lord Byron. The library houses many famous manuscripts, including ones by Milton, Macaulay, Thackeray and Tennyson.

The lack of change from the previous shot is quite remarkable, considering there have been at least two world wars and a social revolution between.

Charles Lamb, the essayist, came to live in the country town of Enfield two centuries ago.

A Perpendicular-style octagonal font with cusped quatrefoils, and mildly Expressionist stained glass in one south window by John Hayward, 1962, are among the finer interior fixtures of St Mary's.

Portrush harbour is situated on the west side of Ramore Head. In this view, steamers are moored along the quayside.

Perhaps the bleakness of the picture explains the current trees and planting, which shield the houses from sea breezes.

A few earlier buildings survive on the left-hand side of the photograph, but the right is dominated by uninspired, even dreary, red-brick Edwardian buildings.

Part of the pier can be seen.

Built on rising ground in 1863, Broadmoor is still in use today. It is one of four special hospitals providing treatment for psychiatric patients under secure conditions.

The Parish Well was presented to the village by a resident of nearby Hawkridge in 1903. The well, no longer in use, stands beneath a tiled roof enclosed by wooden palings.

This wonderful range of 17th-century thatched timber-framed cottages sweeps down the Tring Road towards the clock tower.

The telegraph wires have long gone to be succeeded by other media, and although most of the houses in this view remain, the place is virtually unrecognisable and the traffic scanty: this

Visitors' cars are sensibly discouraged from entering the narrow lanes of Upper Swell, leaving this lovely village for the pedestrian to enjoy.

All along the Nene valley hereabouts are flooded iron ore pits, some of which have been turned into fishing or boating lakes.

Note the two horses and carts and the crowd gathered to watch some form of entertainment, again possibly a Punch and Judy show.