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A great abbey, built by Orc, a Danish servant of King Canute, superseded a Saxon church here. The Abbey thrived for 500 years until its destruction at the time of the Reformation.

Inside the church at Bere Regis are the grand tombs of the Turberville family, immortalised as the D'Urbervilles in Thomas Hardy's novel.

This photograph was taken after Easter 1904, when the Water Chute was commissioned; it soon became the main attraction at Pleasureland.

Derry's Clock had four drinking fountains at its base with cups (long since gone) that hung on chains.

The quiet village street at Appleton-le-Street, west of Malton, shows little passing traffic outside the village pub.

Cawood, on the Yorkshire Ouse close to its confluence with the Wharfe, was formerly an important inland port.

This street, which leads north towards Doll Street, the station and the river, was broad and quiet at the time of the picture.

Llantwit Major stands on the Afon Colhugh, and the place is said to have once been a port.

A police 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

The village pub was, and often still is, the heart of the community. Whilst The Red Lion is still a pub, its appearance is changed—its porch is now a solid one.

A view of the pier taken two years after the storm damage of 1927. Obviously, by this time, no progress has been made on repairing the storm damage.

It shows an uninterrupted view to the church. The houses along New Park Road and Commercial Road were not built until the late 1920s. Stone urns were added to the gate posts at a later date.

Here we see sailing boats and dinghies alongside the River Thurne, with G Applegate's boatbuilding sheds on the west bank.

On May Day morning a famous Oxford tradition is upheld when the dons and the Magdalen College choristers gather at the top of the Perpendicular bell tower to sing a Latin hymn.

The sea appears to be calm and the weather is warm. With deck chairs, buckets, spades and ball, everything is set for an ideal day at the seaside.

The Royal Pier, at the eastern end of Mayflower Park, was opened in 1833 and for many years was the largest in the south of England.

William of Orange, whose statue looks away from the sea and towards England, landed at Brixham on 5 November 1688 to depose the Catholic King James II and to herald 'a glorious revolution'.

This area was once known at St Andrews Gardens; after the Prince and Princess of Wales, later Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, opened Alexandra Park, the park was later renamed in honour

This tiny fishing village is reached by way of a steep path, and squats in a cove surrounded by rocky slopes. Coastal vessels docked here to take on stone from the quarries at St Keverne close by.

Here we see it at a time when the shops catered mostly for local fishing families. Notice the horse-drawn cart and the absence of much other traffic.

Monzie stands to the north-west of Crieff near the village of Gilmerton.

The Angel Hotel was one of three hotels that catered for motorists, the others being the George and Dragon, and the Brunswick.

It is fortunate that the church at Great Witley, built by Lady Foley in 1735, and decorated under the guidance of the artistic Earl of Dudley, survived the fire.

Charlotte Bronte stayed at the vicarage of the hillside town on Hathersage in 1845; the rector Henry Nussey proposed to her but she declined him.