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At the south-eastern corner of Worcestershire stands Cropthorne, a pretty village just off the Evesham to Pershore road.

The large and impressive cruciform church tower of St Mary's can be seen behind the Porch House.

This picture was taken before the building of the bus station.

The ugly iron railings do little to enhance or exploit this fine dolmen; it is sad that it may well be the price society has to pay for preserving one of the oldest man-made monuments in Britain - it dates

Since this photograph was taken, the lower end of the street shown here has been totally altered to make way for a new road system, so that the buildings in the foreground have now all gone.

officer stands at the entrance to the Working Men's Institute, established twenty years earlier, whilst bystanders in various groups show a rather contrived interest in the still comparative novelties of

At one time, the waters stretched another half-mile inland, but the land has been filled in and built on. The wholesale fish market at Brixham was the largest in the west of England at this time.

Alas, the jetty was virtually destroyed by a storm on 11 January 1978, after having closed two years earlier on safety grounds. Part of the isolated pierhead still survives as a rusting tangle.

The Chippingfield estate was one of the first to be built by the Development Corporation.

In the shadow of St Mary's Church, Hotel Mariners on the right was established in 1625. The building to the centre is now without its bay window.

Epsom Downs, which had been in the ownership of the Grand Stand Association, passed to the Levy Board in July 1969.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

After the 1930s the next blow to the Woollen District came in the 1960s with the import of cheap Italian heavy-woollen skirtings and coatings.

St Michael's is on the skyline, and round the bend in the valley to the left is the site of St John's Priory Hospital, which cared for travellers and lepers from 1220 to 1580.

The beautiful row of thatched cottages has gone, to be replaced by a rather uninspiring three-gabled house, and uphill from it there is what appears to be a garage.

Looking in the opposite direction from the Coffee Tavern, this view of Hadleigh's High Street shows the George public house and, further down on the same side, the White Lion Hotel.

In the market place is an iron ring, said to date back to the days of bull-baiting.

The action-packed scene that is a town street in Edwardian days, with plenty of people going about their business; the only traffic is horse-drawn vehicles.

The pier is at the bottom of Evening Hill. The hut has today been superseded by a larger building for the East Dorset Sailing Club. Both houses in this photograph survive.

Set on one of the picturesque creeks branching off the Fowey estuary, Lerryn is seen at its best when the tide is high. At low tide there is nothing but mud in this creek.

The house with the porch is one of the oldest in town. Note the little girls with their summer bonnets, and the barber's pole, centre.

Sir John Everett Millais painted his famous 'The Boyhood of Sir Walter Raleigh' while living at a house called The Octagon here in the late 1860s.

The timber structure in the middle distance is the remains of an attempt to build a pier - a grand Victorian folly if ever there was one.

Situated to the south of the town, overlooking the Test, Broadlands is an imposing porticoed house remodelled in classical style by 'Capability' Brown and John Holland in the mid 18th century.