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This building still exists - but not in Shropshire.

Looking like a refugee from Disney World, or something dreamed up by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Shakespeare Memorial Building was erected in 1879.

Brownsea Island is delightfully situated at the heart of Poole Harbour; its castle was built to safeguard the entrance of that important naval anchorage.

A view from the harbour with the Sloop Inn at the centre of the picture and with Fish Street leading uphill to the right.

The 17th-century mill at Hinxton oozes character with its weatherboarded walls, although the corrugated asbestos roof it sports in this view does not particularly add to its charms.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site. The heavily restored medieval tower is all that remains.

At this time there is a mix of motor and horse-drawn conveyances for the tripper.

John Constable is known to have painted Malvern Hall at least three times - one of these paintings is now in Tate Britain.

Fred Archer, one of the most successful jockeys of all time, lived in Prestbury, and his father was landlord of The Kings Arms.

This rambling village is a mixture of the old and the new. Here we see Terling Stores and Post Office.

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

Heading north from Eastbourne, you turn left in Willingdon to climb Butt Lane to the Downs.

Tradition says that the church was built largely at the expense of the 'Swaffham pedlar' - one John Chapman, who was lucky enough to find two pots of gold in his garden after being guided to them in a

Here we see a peaceful scene on the upper reaches of the river Bure. There are reed-beds along the far side of the river.

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

When Henry VIII's topographer John Leland travelled from Poole to Wimborne in 1542, he noted passing over a bridge with '12 good arches'.

Although in 1960 Walkern was a peaceful village, its history included many scenes of violence.

A measure is being used to decide which of the bowls lies nearest to the jack.

The New Inn at Clapham is a popular hostelry in the heart of the Dales Three Peaks Country, and a convenient starting place for the ascent of Ingleborough, which is 2,434 feet high.

Built in stone from the original Marton Hall in 1850 to serve the village of Marton, this Victorian building operated as the local school until 1963, when a modern building replaced it nearby.

A ladies' bowls match is in progress in the peaceful setting of Zetland Park, at the start of the Coast Road to Marske.

York House Statues The white marble statues of water nymphs, which form such a striking feature in the grounds of York House, were purchased in Rome in the late 19th century by the city financier

The mast of a sailing barge breaks an even horizon, whilst the falling tide exposes mooring chains.

This small settlement to the south of Bakewell lies between Halldale and Darley Dale and, architecturally at least, has little to commend it.