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The war memorial at the junction of Hollidays Road and the main Earith to St Ives road was moved in early 1976 after a lorry hit it.

This picture must have been taken from the middle of the main Huntingdon to Royston road at the junction with the road to the Offords.

Was this young Moore resident off to spend her pocket money at the local Post Office?

The hotels and restaurants in the High Street offered a welcome break to travellers, who could also fill up their tanks with petrol from the single petrol pump at the garage.

Situated at the south-eastern edge of the Chiltern Hills, Woodcote stands about 500ft above sea level.

Stourpaine stands below the Dorset summit of Hod Hill, with its Iron Age hillfort overlooking the River Stour below.

Despite a 20th-century road sign which carried the name '6d Handley', the Sixpenny really has nothing to do with money at all.

The rich fields of the Tamar Valley have long been the source of Plymouth's fruit and vegetables.

Standing at the junction of several ancient roads, Lyndhurst has attracted travellers for centuries. Many of the town's inns would have been established for these traditional wayfarers.

The church of St Mary is Early English in style and some eight hundred years old.

An impromptu cricket match takes place on The Green at Aldbrough St John on a glorious summer's day.

Although it is set in the heart of the largely industrialised Aire Valley, Steeton retains its air of rural tranquillity.

This is one of the very few medieval bridges surviving on the Broadland rivers.

It was built after the Normans demolished an original Saxon church in 1095.

This view shows the sturdy, buttressed bridge over the Swale at Grinton, which is situated on the south bank of the River Swale nine miles west of Richmond.

The Early English-style brick Christ Church in Fairfield Road was just 23 years old at the time of this photograph. On its 25th anniversary in 1901, a school was added.

Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the 14th-century parish church was rebuilt between 1858 and 1860 at a cost of £15,000; some 14th-century roof timbers were salvaged and reused.

Cockermouth is situated where the River Cocker joins the River Derwent on its way to the Irish Sea at Workington.

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

Surviving accounts books for 1458-61, 1467-68, 1476-77, 1500 and 1509 show that the Whickham mines were contributing considerable revenues to the bishop.

The river has at various times proved indispensable to local industry. In 1949 Wiggins Teape reopened a local paper mill here, which specialised in producing tracing paper.

The industrial landscape of Burslem was dominated by bottle kilns and slag heaps. At this time, the Staffordshire potteries were employing about 60,000 workers.

Royal Terrace with the Royal Hotel on the eastern corner can clearly be seen at the top of the cliffs. Boats are drawn up on the beach close to the promenade.