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Local records show that the Melody Inn Revue (note the poster, right) ran continuously at the Floral Pavilion from 1948 until 1970.

Upstream (right) of the bridge is a weir, at which it is possible to see salmon leaping.

The original monastic settlement at Minster was founded in AD670, overlooking Minster Marshes, then the open Wantsum Channel.

A small village to the north of Cuckfield, Whiteman's Green was once on several bus routes—a single-decker bus is just visible at the bottom of the hill.A village sign is on grass verge.

Cressing is an expanding village just to the south of Braintree. It has its own railway-station, formerly known as Bulford station.

At the foot of Roseberry Topping is the hamlet of Newton under Roseberry, and in this view we see the Kings Head Inn (extreme right).

The building was named after William Fitzherbert, who was the great-grandson of William the Conqueror.

This photograph is included partly to show how farming has changed in the last half century.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

At the foot of Boley Hill stands the 15th-century College Gate, one of three surviving entrances to the precincts of the Cathedral, whose modest spire (added to the original tower in 1904) rises behind

The village had its own mill, Ascott Mill, at one time; Langley Mill, shown here, was outside the village, nudging the Shipton-under- Wychwood border - the River Evenlode marks the parish boundary.

At the time of the photograph, it was the home of the London County Council. The building is now occupied by two hotels, the London Aquarium, the Saatchi Gallery, and the County Hall Gallery.

Unfortunately, it is also a fake. The ruin was built in the 1700s by Randle Wilbraham to enhance his view from Rode Hall at Scholar Green, where he lived.

Today many of the old buildings of the old docks, and the mills that lined them, have disappeared.

Still a busy canal for commercial traffic, everything here was built on a big scale. For example, one of the locks at Latchford (in the south of Warrington) is 600 feet long and 65 feet wide.

The installation of hiding places in great houses had to be kept secret; usually the work was undertaken when ostensibly a major architectural project was in hand.

The installation of hiding places in great houses had to be kept secret; usually the work was undertaken when ostensibly a major architectural project was in hand.

This view shows (left), at No 7 The Strand, Heath's printers, bookbinders and stationers, with its own lending library.

Ullswater snakes into the Lake District hills for seven and a half miles, from Pooley Bridge to Glenridding, and has three major and quite different stretches.

The County Hotel is one of the main hotels in the centre of Kendal; it dominates this part of the old town, whose wealth was founded on the woollen and textile industries.The famed Kendal bowmen at

William Wordsworth lived with his sister, Dorothy, at Dove Cottage, just outside the village, from 1799 to 1813.

Guyden's Bakery (left) is a long-time landmark of the village; the front is 19th-century, but the building behind dates from the 18th century.

At the time this photograph was taken, the Parade was the home of ship brokers, accountants and members of the legal profession, many of whom worked in Cardiff.

Lying close to the gardens in picture T121004, the bowling green is another representation of rest and recreation in an area surrounded by heavy industry.