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Women were given the vote in 1881; the first woman member of the House of Keys was Mrs Marion Shimmin, elected in February 1933.

Odiham's houses are a mixture of Georgian and Tudor; some are timber-framed, which was common before local bricks came into general use in the 18th century.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

The mill buildings on the left are now converted into a house with further extensions, but well designed, and in a very pretty location.

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

The Abbey was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains. Building work was completed by 1175, and iron forging began in 1200.

This prospect, photographed from Capstone Hill, shows the sheer density of housing created by the Victorians to cater for the influx of visitors every summer.

At the bottom is 'The House that Moved': this historic local building was in the path of a road scheme, and was carefully excavated and rolled some 400 yards to a new position.

A huge community, both military and trading, grew around the naval yards with thousands of homes to cater for dockworkers and public houses in which to entertain shorebound sailors.

To the right is the Bridge Boat House and landing stage, now a restaurant.

In 1959 the narrow High Street still had 19th-century buildings on both sides, but an overspill housing programme was already under way and traffic was increasing.

The house on the left was (and still is) Hallow's post office.

The distant hill with the white house is above Helford Passage on the north side of the main estuary.

Housing has now appeared beyond the fringes of the park.

The well-known local Dowsett family gave this beautiful moated manor house to the town.

The wide road shows the importance of this route to the town.The wide pavements are said to have been constructed to facilitate rope and net mak- ing outside the inhabitants' houses.

Like most of the villages in this area, Amberley played its part in the cloth making industry, but the larger houses built on the higher level of the steep hillside were well away from

Opposite the church are the Red Lion and the Royal Oak public houses.

There are quite a few old, half-timbered buildings still extant in the village, but perhaps the most interesting is the old market house, which can be seen on the left of the picture.

A group of customers wait to saddle-up for an excursion from the White House Riding School at Huntington, a small village just to the north of York.

Spacious houses and hotels are situated around a dramatic woodland chine leading down to the sea.

This valley community became the focus of a nation's grief when in 1966 Pontglas School and a row of adjacent houses were buried under a sliding coal tip.

All those families moving into Astwood Bank's new houses in the 1960s needed facilities, and the community does have a fair range. The park seems to have been popular then, but is less so today.