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Iron Age dwellers built a fortification on Berry Head, and Celtic inhabitants would have collected salt and fish where the harbour now stands.

This photograph of the northern shore of Wastwater shows (left to right) the trio of peaks at the head of England's deepest lake—Yewbarrow (2,061 ft), Great Gable (2,949 ft) and Lingmell (2,649

Berry Head is the southern limit of Torbay, and a country park as well. A hundred years ago, it was being used by people for recreation purposes (left) and nautical types too (right).

Nidd in the valley bottom disappears below ground into the potholes of Manchester Pot and Goydon Pot two miles north of Lofthouse, where it meets the Carboniferous limestone strata, reappearing at Nidd Heads

He is usually depicted with foliage issuing from his mouth, or sprouting from his head like hair. M&B's Green Man, however, is a green-jacketed character with a gun and a hunting dog.

The village war memorial stands at the road junction (centre left), and on the right is the entrance to The Queens Head Hotel.

James Huins also had shops in Evesham, Northfield and King's Norton, but the main branch was here at Redditch, along with the head office. It was advertised rather grandly as Boot Metropole.

As a break from a succession of market towns, the route heads north-west to Buckland St Mary, situated just north of the A303 and at the east end of the well-wooded Blackdown Hills.

The Nag's Head public house was one of many around Stafford controlled by Joule's Brewery of Stone, established in the 18th century and closed in 1972.

There is not a bare head to be seen in this view, which looks towards the old grandstand - new the year this picture was taken.

St Willow's church of Lanteglos-by-Fowey stands surrounded by fields overlooking the head of Pont Pill, a branch of Fowey harbour and about a mile from Polruan.

Note the milk churns awaiting collection outside the King's Head Hotel on the left.

This figure, head bowed and rifle turned upside down, is a common sight.

A craft heads southwards towards Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal.

Watermouth`s narrow entrance, guarded by the great bulk of Widmouth Head (centre) to the west and Sexton`s Burrow opposite, makes it one of the safer, more sheltered harbours on this inhospitable

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar's.

Penryn sits at the head of a creek in Falmouth harbour. At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.

The trees of Low Wood stretch out into the lake, while the steep scree-clad slopes of Illgill Head—the famous Wasdale Screes—soar up the southern shores.

Aveton Gifford (pronounced Auton, meaning the settlement on the Avon) stands at the head of the estuary.

Lyte was the much loved Victorian parson of the fishing town, living high above the town at Berry Head House.

A few yards from the site of photograph L122026, a pair of loaded boats head south towards the Trent & Mersey Canal. They were owned by Horsefield Ltd.

And photography was still so unusual that the camera turned more than a few heads among the Edwardian population.

The view is south- westwards from Bindon Hill (right) down to the fishing boats on the beach between the boathouse and cafe, to Dungy Head (centre right).

The added floors of the General Hospital stand head and shoulders above the scene, which includes a mixed assortment of vehicles.