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On the left are the remains of the Archbishop's Palace, or manor house, where Archbishop Warham entertained Henry VII in 1507, and where Henry VIII stayed in 1520 when he was on his way to the Field of

It is three years after the First World War, and a packet of ten Wills cigarettes can be bought in this tobacconists for 3d (three old pence).

After the castle came into the ownership of the Ministry of Works in 1927, the ivy was cleared away.

Note the symmetry of this early residential development on Lake Road East with its grand row of houses book-ended by conical towers.

The land, along with 150 acres of Bute Park, would generously supplement the fifth Marquess' 'gift' of Cardiff Castle to its citizens.

This skyline is a useful synopsis of Thaxted: we see a half-rural, half-industrial village, with a cathedral- sized church.

Christchurch (or Christchurch Twyneham, to give the town its old name) is one of the oldest settlements on the south coast, probably being in existence even before the Romans settled in the shelter

Much of the prosperity of the town derived from the nearby Greenfield Valley.

This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

Here a group of visitors pause to admire the view from Purse Point across the lake towards Glenridding.

For a few years around the turn of the 20th century, Worplesdon's cricket pitch was at the foot of Rickford Hill on the edge of the common.

This must be one of the most attractive villages in Surrey, with its large, sloping triangular green surrounded by good houses.

Peaslake is a small village west of Holmbury St Mary, separated from it by a ridge of wooded hills.

This wharf on the lower slopes of the Blorenge is one of the most photographed places on the Brecknock & Abergavenny Canal.

With 2,500 acres of heathland, ancient woodland and wetland, Sutton Park constitutes the finest countryside in the county.

Chagford is a tiny market town on the eastern slopes of Dartmoor, close to the upper reaches of the river Teign.

This thatched cottage with its distinctive pargetting (moulded plaster decoration) was home to one of East Dereham's more infamous sons, Bishop Bonner, the Rector of nearby St Nicholas's Church in the

In the 1460s, William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, set about remodelling Raglan in the contemporary French style as a Yorkist fortress during the Wars of the Roses. The tower keep had its own moat.

The Cathedral c1875 Soaring above the surrounding rooftops, the spires of the Cathedral dominate the city in this view taken from the tower of the West Gate.

Much of Colwall developed in late Victorian times as a result of the building of the railway line and its station.

This was once the site of Helston Castle, built in the 13th century by Edmund, Earl of Cornwall.

It is three years after World War I, and a packet of ten Wills cigarettes can be bought in this tobacconists for 3d (three old pence).

Contemporary reports of Bishop Hooper's execution refer to his tongue sticking out of his mouth after his forty-five minutes of agony, as if he was still trying to speak just one last word.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.