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During the 15th century, Headcorn was a cloth-making centre which prospered with the arrival of Flemish weavers, and its single, long street has several fine buildings dating back to that time.

The roof of the former vicarage can be seen between the pub and the bus shelter of c1953. On the left is the garden of Thomas Neale's almshouses of 1723, demolished in 1968.

For all its evocative name, Higher Bebington Road is quite short in length; it services Bebington High Sports College, the Higher Bebington recreation ground and the local branch of Wirral

This very early postcard view of the Borrowdale Hotel, with Grange Crags behind, shows the Lake District as it was before the tourist invasion really took hold.The traffic-free minor road meanders

This photograph was taken about five years after R353020 (pages 62-63) and further down the hill towards the centre of Rockingham.

Boats are on the Chesil Beach between Chiswell and Victoria Sqaure (top left), with Portland Harbour on the other side of the pebble bank (centre background), in a panorama north-westwards from Paradise

Kingsbury Underground Station is situated some distance to the north-west of the original village centre, and within a range of not unattractive shops, seen on the right, with their pitched dormered and

Hidden behind the trees is the parish church of St Michael and All Saints; burial place of Bernard Gilpin (died 1583), cleric, orator, philanthropist, and founder of Houghton Grammar School.

Taken long before the days of amusement arcades and the bandstand, this photograph shows that Pier Road and the Crag consisted solely of dwelling houses, probably occupied mainly by the fishing community

This view of Worcester Cathedral was taken looking west along the length of the quire and nave to the great west window.

Lombard Street is one of the least changed streets in this delightful market town, a tangle of narrow lanes and alleys winding to the east of the towering walls of Petworth House's grounds.

Castell Coch has featured in a number of films, both for screen and television.

Chesham has been a market town since 1257 when Hugh, Earl of Oxford, obtained from King Henry III a grant of a weekly market and annual three-day fair.

A lovely composition of local stone cottages in the lee of the tree-shrouded parish church.

Here we see the river bridges and Nag's Head island, which separates the main river on the right and the back water on its left.

County Hall was built in 1882 and was the administrative headquarters of Lancashire County Council.

In 1797 a committee of seven was appointed by the trustees to negotiate with the proprietors of the newly formed Grand Junction Canal Company who required land for the extension of their canal.

The School of Engineering is another of the science buildings east of College Park.

The merging of the village into the borough of Reading was strongly resisted by the residents of Caversham.

This photograph captures the atmosphere and feel of the village around the turn of the century. Sir John Soane, who rebuilt the Bank of England, was born here.

An ancient yew tree shows the antiquity of many a country churchyard. Yew was used in the manufacture of the traditional English longbow, which turned the tide of battle at Crecy and Agincourt.

Considered to be one of the finest in Gloucestershire, the parish church has retained much of its 12th-century work, although the hand of successive centuries can be seen in its many treasures.

Very little remains of Clare House Pier. The promenade is busy with people, a number of whom are partaking of refreshments at tables outside the tearooms.

At the time of the Industrial Revolution the people of Lilleshall, until then mainly a farming community, began mining limestone to supply the iron-smelting industry at Coalbrookdale.