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This portrait, painted by Anna Zinkeisen in the 1950s, was commissioned by the Royal Photographic Society, but then given to the family. It now hangs in the Fox Talbot Museum.

This one, on the Ashby Road, is still used by the Rugby and Daventry Sailing Club. The larger reservoir nearer to the town is now the centre of the country park.

Fame is assured by the fact that the roundabout is named after the establishment.

By the time it was bought by Sir George Samuel Brooke Pechell in 1867, it had become Alton House. The family remained here for about 30 years before moving to Culverton House.

The freehold of the Butts was presented to the town by the Lord of the Manor is 1981.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.

The first chapter's tour starts in the heart of the lush Vale of Taunton Deane in the county town of Taunton, a bustling town with much of its former through traffic taken by the nearby M5.

In the middle distance is the site of the old swing bridge, now replaced by the present 1937 bridge on the A57 bypass upon which the photographer is standing.

It was built in 1848-49 by the North Staffordshire Railway Company (nicknamed the Knotty after its emblem the Stafford Knot), to link local services to the main London line at Colwich.

The only action the castle ever saw was in 1216, when it was occupied by the French at the invitation of the barons rebelling against King John. COMPTON, Loseley

From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.

The hotel was built by the London and North Western Railway Company for travellers from London to Scotland.

This indicated that accommodation was available here, and that the rooms were of a standard approved by the Royal Automobile Club.

By the end of the 18th century, the western half of the High Street contained about fifteen houses, which by 1842 had increased to about twenty-five. Several of these still survive.

Beautifully situated by the tree-lined River Wyre and the ancient bridge (Bonnie Prince Charlie's army passed over it) is one of the three most ancient churches in the Fylde—they are Preston, Kirkham,

Tetbury was largely undisturbed by the Industrial Revolution, which is why this Cotswold gem retains so many ancient buildings of timeless charm.

Over the main doorway, concealed by the garden wall, the owner's name, William Barcroft, and the date 1614 is inscribed.

However, those by the slipway appear rather formally dressed and have perhaps made a brief stop during a coach tour.

In the 1930s, when the railway was widened, the new Star Inn was incorporated into the Havana, Times Furnishers building, and the site of W Muskett the grocer was occupied by the gas showrooms in a

Kendal appears to have become derelict by the beginning of the 17th century.

By the middle of the 20th century it was being used as an outhouse, and it was demolished in 1961–2 to make way for more modern farm buildings.

By the Victorian drinking fountain at the entrance to Botley station lies a memorial tablet which reads: 'this stone is erected to perpetuate a most cruel murder committed on the body of Thomas Webb,

By 1841 the Fox Railway Inn (on the right) had been opened by the railway company. It was demolished in 1989.

The fine set of old cottages on the left were probably owned by the railway. They face the Railway Arms across the well-laid-out street.