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The setting appears to be perfect: St Denys' is situated at the western end of a fine avenue of trees, close to its attractive 18th-century rectory.

The church, mainly of the 14th century, stands within a grassy churchyard, close to the A6 Leicester-Loughborough Road.

Whalley had an abbey once, and that fact distracts from the importance of the church here. The church of St Mary and All Saints has ancient crosses in the churchyard and a thousand years of history.

Note also the new screen on the right for the Lady Chapel.

The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals. The five mile-long Wisbech Canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech.

It was built by E J Smith of Cardiff in a vaguely eastern Art Deco style, and the building material was (the then) ultra modern ferro-concrete.

The old Town Hall was erected around 1781 on the site of an earlier town hall. Major Thomas Jarratt was the designer of the building, which opened in 1783.

The Town Hall was designed by Christopher Kempster, who was probably advised by Sir Christopher Wren, as Kempster was one of the masons he used in rebuilding London after the Great Fire of 1666.

At the extreme end of the `ring` is the Ferry Boat Inn. The Ferry Boat claims to be one of the oldest inns in Britain.

The frontage of the Swan Hotel hides its 15th- and 16th-century origins.

Punch and Judy hold the attention of the formally-dressed crowd of holidaymakers in the South Bay.

Later this was to become the 'end of the line' for trams from Birmingham.

In the middle of West View Park, opposite the paddling pool, was the bandstand. Here at the turn of the century ­visitors were entertained by Pierrot shows and bands. To the left is Wells House.

Further west, on the Stony Stratford to Northampton road, is another Yardley.

This is the quadrangle of Owen's College, with the gateway out to Oxford Road on the right of the picture. In 1886-7 the Museum part of the college was among the buildings added to the complex.

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

This patterned red-brick Victorian building was occupied from 1916 onwards by the Benedictine nuns of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, of Montmartre, OSB and used as a novitiate house, before

In the backgound are the ruins of Bolton Castle, which was built by Richard Scrope in the 1380s.

Our third tour starts in Shalford, in effect a suburb of Guildford on the east side of the River Wey where the Tillingbourne meets it.

From the Market Place our town tour heads south along perhaps the best street in Abingdon for the survival of older buildings: East St Helen Street.

This view from the top of Whitehall Park looks over the flower beds to Darwen beyond.We can make out quite a few of the mill chimneys, but not the most famous of them all, the square 300ft India Mill

This is the same scene as photograph No 37890 in the opposite direction, four years later, revealing the rich assortment of buildings and businesses which had developed along this stretch of the main

Earlier pictures of Evesham Street show Cranmore Simmons on the corner, a family-run furniture business established by Alfred Simmons in the 1920s.

The town is most famous now for its annual international eisteddfod, one of the high spots of the cultural calendar in Wales.