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Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

Robert Burns came to the town in 1791 and lived with his wife and family in a house in Millhole Brae. Burns died in 1796 at the age of 36 and is buried in St Michael's Church.

In the High Street, the house (centre left) will soon be the shop of Henry Stile, a gent's outfitter's; in the centre are the Tiger's Head (landlord Edward Smith), and the gabled Boot Stores of 1905.

The Bull at Streatley public house is on the left. Here the characters in Jerome K Jerome's 'Three Men in a Boat' lunched, accompanied by their dog.

These stately Victorian houses were part of the huge process of building development that ensued. In the distance is the Palace Theatre, now re-christened the Leas Pavilion.

Though just a Birmingham suburb now, Castle Bromwich retains its green and a few old houses.

A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with

Silhouetted against the skyline, the south lock- house does not immediately appear to be a part of one of the county's major tourist attractions.

The Old House (left) dates from 1678, and it is a prominently sited example of English domestic architecture at its very best.

As more and more injured men came back from the front, a larger hut hospital was built on the playing fields of King's and Clare Colleges, with 'open-air' wards such as this one housing the patients

Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who died before it was completed, the memorial cost just over £2,000 and was unveiled by the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon Sir Bouverie Brand, MP.

This view has changed little, although there would now be houses and supermarkets just out of the picture.

Boats can be hired or moored here, and the building has been restored and is now a house.

Greenock was the birthplace, in 1736, of James Watt, who was born in a house on Dalrymple Street.

The foundation stone of the Mansion House was laid in 1739.

Houses line the left hand bank. In the foreground are examples of the tub boats mentioned earlier.

Here we see another church in an attractive location near the small village of Bekesbourne, which contains 18th-century cottages and some modern housing.

At the time of the picture, the Five Ashes public house was offering customers ales from Tamplins, Brighton Brewery.

Next to the car park of the Crown public house on the right, the creeper-covered cottage advertises the services of the local coal and coke merchant J W Roberts.

We are looking east towards the town centre; the Market House dome is just visible at the end of the street.

Leading away from the Market Place (the Market House is visible in the distance) is Silver Street. The posters on the corner shop are advertising 'Dark Passage', noted in the Kingshill view.

The Cross Keys remains, but the two houses in the distance on either side of the High Street junction are now estate agents.

This is now the busy A329, and the B4009 Newbury road is between the Bull at Streatley pub on the left, where the Three Men in a Boat lunched, and the Georgian Elm House beyond.

Now defunct, it originally carried barge-towing horses to the opposite towpath; later it became more of a leisure ferry to Cliveden House on the plateau above.