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The box hedges cut into the shape of chessmen in the splendid topiary garden at Haseley Court are well worth seeing.

Children play at the south end of the beach. Beyond them is the headland on which the Borth war memorial was built after the First World War.

The nearby hamlet of Staylittle allegedly took its name from a village blacksmith who was so quick at shoeing horses that his smithy became known as Stay-a-Little.

This is a revealing picture of changing times.

At one time straddling the county boundary with Huntingdonshire, Everton was listed as Euretone in the Domesday Book.

While the cathedral is the main feature of Ely, the town has also been a market town for many years.

Epsom Downs with its close-cropped turf and easy access from London was the place for it.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

One of the consultants at the time of our photograph was Sir Charles Brown (1836-1926).

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

These cottages are at Goosehill, on the lane which leads up to the entrance of Peak Cavern, whose entrance gapes under the limestone crags visible to the left of this photograph.

This lighthouse was built on St Vincent's Pier in 1810, but it was destroyed during a German raid on 17 December 1914. A replacement was erected in 1931.

Sandsend is about three miles from Whitby, situated at the mouth of Sandsend Wyke; the village is almost hidden from view because of the mighty cliffs and Mulgrave Wood nearby.

This photograph was taken from above the town of Marazion; the view shows clearly how the famous Mount is reached by a causeway at low tide.

The coastline on either side of Sandown was heavily fortified in earlier times, for fear of a French invasion was never far from English minds over several centuries.

There was once a railway running down the middle of this street and around the corner at the end. It went to Westward Ho! and Appledore, and ran for sixteen years, closing in March 1917.

The chapel was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In the Lady Chapel of St Edward's at Clifford, there is a statue of the Virgin sculptured by H Hoffman.

On the right is the entrance to Leeds City station. At one time there were three railway stations in the city centre: Central, Wellington and New.

A paddle steamer lies moored at the harbour wall. The first steam- driven paddle vessels, the 'Ivanhoe' and the 'Warspite', arrived in Weymouth as early as 1827.

The chapel was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In the Lady Chapel of St Edward's at Clifford, there is a statue of the Virgin sculptured by H Hoffman.

Uppingham is a particularly charming town with an attractive series of 17th- and 18th-century buildings.

Lace-making has always been an important tradition in East Devon, though it would be a rare sight today to see it carried out in the street by a local cottager.