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It is now a commuter town, but retains many of the spacious villas of its health resort days.

This discreet little settlement in the parish of Stanton St Gabriel occupies a web of small lanes on the south-facing slopes of Hardown Hill and derives its name from three Old English words: 'mor' (

As in picture No 39385, the photographer's activities grip the attention of all those present - with the exception of a border collie, who only has eyes for his master standing beside the laden cart

The enormous popularity of messing about on the River Thames during the Victorian era is demonstrated in this scene of the crowded lock at Molesey, just upstream from Hampton Court; it had been linked

Overlooking the fascinating village green from the direction of Dakyn House (1678), we see the parish church of St Peter and St Felix, which itself looks out over the remains of Ravensworth Castle.

A few years earlier, one local commentator had written: 'the other side [of Earle Street] has been considerably improved with the growth of the local Co-operative Society.

Located in the suburb of Allerton, this junction provides access to West Allerton train station and to the B5180 and A562 arterial roads.

At the north end of the park the focus is a statue of Albert, Queen Victoria's Prince Consort, who had died in 1861 and in whose honour the estate had been named.

Nearly four hundred feet above sea level, this principal inland resort of Kent owes its popularity to the accidental discovery of a chalybeate spring by Dudley, Lord North in 1606, which led to the fashion

The castle at Acton Burnell was built at the end of the 13th century by Robert Burnell, Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England.

This is the Anglican parish church of Chigwell. Parts of the fabric of the church are Norman, from the 12th century.

The house was built around the remains of a former Benedictine nunnery.

This is East Bridge, at the eastern end of East Street (far right), looking eastwards from the north bank of the River Asker.

Marking the end of an era, the Bull Inn at Swyre was one of the last roadhouses to be built in England in the 1930s, enabling Mrs Bessie Case to offer 'hotel accomodation' in time for Defence Area status

Looking west from the chalk hills east of the town, undeveloped to this day, Chesham nestles in the deep-cut valley of the River Chess.

The design of the building on the extreme left of the photograph is 'restrained Co-op' of the 1930s, not pictur- esque but solid and honest.

Here we see a simple, well-proportioned range of three-storey shops and flats of around 1890, with their fine sensitively-crafted pilastered fronts.

In 1891 a fire caused considerable damage to the fabric of the building, and the impression from the photograph is of a complete rebuilding soon after that date.

A sign of the times is here in the form of the AA box (right) with two AA patrol men going across the road for a quick one!

In the days of sail, vessels making their way up the Avon to Bristol had to contend with several problems: the current, the wind through the Gorge, and the serpentine course of the river itself.

OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition

Dating from the 14th century, the White Hart is one of the oldest surviving exam- ples of domestic architecture in the East Midlands.

Built in 1864, Bulphan Church of England Primary School is typical of many small village schools; it is still in use. The church of St Mary is nearby. The village itself is small and quiet.

The photographer has the undivided attention of a group of children in this quiet wintry view.