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The windmill is long gone, but the 12th-century church, to which the tower was added later, is famous for its pavement of 20 brasses dating from 1320 to 1529.

beside New Road, and the venue for the fictional proposed duel between Mr Winkle and Dr Slammer in The Pickwick Papers, before the public gardens were opened in 1897 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of

Characterised by pointed arches and fine stonework, the old gate is also renowned for its statue of George III gazing down the High Street, dressed as a Roman and wearing a toga.

Paignton's harbour is an extension of a simple early shelter for shipping.

The present building is the fifth church of this name to occupy the site. The nave collapsed in 1739, and was re-built on a much grander scale.

Children with hoops pose for the photographer in the centre of the picture.The octagonal building on the left is a newspaper

This was the earliest English settlement of the Knights Templar, who were given the manor in 1135. Cressing is known today for its medieval barns at nearby Cressing Temple.

Great Sampford is a pleasant village in northern Essex on the road between Finchingfield and Saffron Walden.

This led to some changes: one 1920s guidebook writer complained that 'the newer, stoutly built houses have almost replaced the cottages that were the joy of artist and photographer'.

Next door is a small thatched cottage similar to a number of others in the village. In the distance, we can just see the parish church, and past the church is Dock Lane.

This mill is the best-preserved of the Norfolk watermills, with all its machinery still surviving. The mill is on the North Walsham and Dilham Canal.

Its boundaries brush hard against the borders of neighbouring Hampshire. The heathland all around is still relatively unspoiled, and rich in archaeology.

All of the buildings lying downhill from where the mats are drying on the wall were demolished in the 1920s and 1930s.

The practice of parking a bicycle by leaning it on one pedal against the kerb is rarely seen these days.

The building which stands now was built somewhat later, and is distinguished as a piece of particularly fine architecture.

The Marshall family first set up in Cambridge in 1909 with an engineering company to provide car maintenance and coach building work to the rich undergraduates of the University.

Sussex Street, running between Sidney and Hobson Streets, was redeveloped in the 1930s, and finished off with these elegant colonnades.

It is over sixty years after photograph No 32202, and the Great White Horse Hotel has acquired stone cladding, several signs and a set of traffic lights.

This concrete bridge replaced the earlier iron bridge in 1959 as part of the flood prevention scheme that started in the late 1950s.

We are looking down on St Mary's Church. The distant green fields and trees are now replaced by in-fill housing.

It became a girls' boarding school at the turn of the century, and is now a nursing home.

The building on the left, now demolished and replaced by St Thomas's Church Hall, was a cottage for the tannery workers.

The building on the right is the Booth Hall, also known as the Round House, perhaps so called because it was possible to walk all round it without obstruction.

Bonchurch is a charming suburb of Ventnor, its rich plant life a joy to behold.