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Some of the freeholders had been setting up stalls in the middle of the road that were now becoming permanent structures.

The early history of St Mary's is difficult to trace as all documents relating to the parish were destroyed at the time of the Reformation.

He had become converted to the idea of 'educating' nature, using and modifying the natural contours to produce pleasing compositions. This was to lead him to create one of England's great gardens.

The village inn was owned by Steward and Patteson, one of the four large breweries of Norwich.

On the left is the Electra Cinema which occupied the ground floor of the defunct Market Hall.

A drawing board, a tee-square, a blank sheet of cartridge paper and a commission to create a lasting memorial to war: an almost impossible task.

This photograph was probably taken from a window in one of the shops on St James' Street. In the foreground is the Old Red Lion.

It is said that Drummond was sitting under the great sycamore tree in front of the house when Jonson trudged up the path. Drummond met him with 'Welcome, welcome, royal Ben!'

Built on the site of the Old Rectory, the Basildon tractor plant was finally completed on 20 February 1964. It covered 60 acres of the 100-acre site, and had 1,360,000 square feet of buildings.

A few lorries of the period are parked on rough ground behind a hut; this makes a contrast with the full south-east outline of St Peter's Cathedral.

This view captures some of the domestic feel of the lower High Street beyond the shops nearer Market Square.

The High Street is a long one on the main Aylesbury to Buckingham road.

It is mid-morning in the courtyard of the New Inn. Has the man on the stairway seen the infamous ghost of the New Inn?

The church was rebuilt in 1861 and the tower went up in 1873 at a cost of £3,500 in memory of Bishop Philpott, who is buried in the churchyard.

This photograph shows a vastly different prospect from that we can see today: the rows of fields on the opposite shore are gone, and the houses of Newton Ferrers extend two-thirds of the way up the hill

Thatched roofs, leaded windows, local stone and a profusion of creepers and roses, set amid lofty trees, make this scene an archetypal image of countryside tranquillity.

Picturesque Llansteffan, on a high bluff fronting the sea, was a favourite subject for the Romantic painters. It was built by the Normans in the 12th century to control the mouth of the River Towy.

Begun by William, Lord Hastings in 1489, and never finished, Kirby Muxloe is an early example of the use of brick in castle building.

Fore Street is in the Copperhouse district of Hayle, which takes its name from a copper works (later a foundry) of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Perpendicular north aisle has some windows, and in the south aisle on the west side there are stained glass windows by Powell of 1865.

A few miles to the south of Nairn stands Cawdor Castle, one of Scotland's finest medieval buildings. It is famous for its association with Macbeth and the murder of Duncan.

Henry Mayhew descibes a typical dockside scene: 'The cooper is hammering at the casts on the quay; the chains of the cranes, loosed of their weight, rattle as they fly up; the ropes splash in the water

In the centre is the dome of the Grand Hotel, built in 1898 to the designs of Cecil Ogden, and dismissed by Pevsner as 'of no architectural value', perhaps an over-critical view.

Just to the north of the church, the buildings on the west side of the road take on a varied appearance, the most special being the Three Swans Hotel, which has its origins from at least the early 17th