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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.

The woodlands in the distance, a rare example of trees coming down to the seashore, were both private and jealously guarded a century ago.

Instow is on the Torridge, opposite Appledore. Apart from a reinforced sea wall, this view of Marine Parade is little changed today. Here, visitors await the ferry for Appledore.

Tucked away among 'surroundings that are indescribably beautiful', boats nestle in the placid harbour waters of this picturesque village with its long, straggling street.

In the second half of the 19th century, Coltishall was a major wherry building centre, and even at the time this photograph was taken, Allens were turning out the sleekest, fastest wherries on the Broads

These children are clearly delighting in making sand castles, digging holes in the beach for the sea to fill, or just engaging in a spot of amateur beachcombing.

The village lies east of Rushton Hall's park. This view looks east, the road curving past the churchyard towards the hipped roofed Thornhill Arms in the distance.

One local resident had a cynical sense of humour.