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This view shows the large expanse of water at the mouth of No 8 dock, which was the turning circle.

Still close to the Yorkshire county boundary and south- west of Harworth, Oldcotes village is situated at the crossroads of the A634 and A60; Main Street runs east from the A60 Doncaster Road

The Marquis of Granby was another one of the many pubs and alehouses in the town centre that no longer exist.

North-east of the village and north of the A415 Abingdon Road is a large complex of austere Gothic- style buildings. This is now the European School, and not much softened with age.

The Blue Pool at Furzebrook, the best known of Purbeck's former heathland claypits was dug by Watts, Hatherley and Burns of Newton Abbot, in 1846.

Westgate, dating back to the 14th century, provides access to the south-west corner of the old walled town.

Copthorne was a new parish, formed in 1881 out of Worth and Crawley Down.The church of St John Evangelist was built in 1877 and is just in Sussex.The picture shows local shops with a proliferation

On the south side of this view is the London House store of house furnishers Walter Baker Northover and Son. Colmer's Hill is the distinctive distant hilltop(centre).

This was once the site of the bishops' vineyard. Proof of this was a very old vine found in the grounds of a house in the 1960s, but unfortunately it was removed by new tenants.

This ornate green and gold-painted cast iron fountain was presented to the town in May 1900 in honour of Peter Walker, founder of Walker's Brewery.

This quiet north Hertfordshire village offers teas in the garden - or something a little stronger at the Three Horseshoes (left). The pub had been the village school in 1873.

Among its many memorials is an effigy of William Leigh, shown vested in the robe of a Knight of St Gregory and holding in his hands a model of the church he founded.

At the height of the coaching era, Maidenhead was littered with posting inns either side of the High Street. Some of these hotels continued to thrive during the age of the motor car.

This village stands on the south-west edge of the Isle of Ely. In the 17th century the fens around Sutton were drained by farmers with the help of wind pumps.

East of Crowborough the tour reaches Wadhurst, once a village of importance in the Wealden iron industry and now a quiet and typical High Weald village.

The c hurch of St Peter de Merton is of great interest, for it contains Anglo-Saxon work. The present chancel was the nave of the first church, while the tower was added after the Norman Conquest.

Newgate Street is one of the features of the town -it marks the line of a section of the old Roman road of Dere Street.

The slopes to the rear of West Street are still green, and the view at the end of the 20th century is a little less smoke-hazed.

Within 15 years of being built the bridge needed to be widened so that today it carries four lanes of traffic.

Henry III ordered the Keeper of Windsor Forest to deliver to Andrew, Sergeant of Caversham, one good oak to make a boat for ferrying poor people over the water of Caversham.

Norwich is known as 'the City of Churches', and All Saints' is one of forty; it has an ancient font finely carved with figures of saints and the twelve apostles.

All, however, make a point of listing a marble memorial to the life of Col Richard Nicolls who captured the Dutch Colonial city of New Amsterdam on behalf of the English Crown - and then renamed it New

Tattershall was extensively rebuilt by Ralph Cromwell, a veteran of Agincourt, and Lord Chancellor of England.

One of the first known owners of the property was a member of the Brocke family by the name of Ayre. The earliest boundary was north of the stream known now as the Pip Brook.