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A Mini, a Wolseley, a Ford Capri and Cortina, a Morris Traveller and others all suggest the age of the motor car is finally with us; this street is dominated by the motor vehicle.

This photograph, taken towards the eastern end of Victoria Road, shows what an important retail area this was.

This 18th-century inn was associated with smuggling - this isolated part of the coast was notorious for the illegal trade.

We are looking eastwards from the end of Brotton High Street, and the chimneys of the Skinningrove iron and steel works can be seen in the distance.

Brewhouse Hill leads from Wheathampstead to the hamlet of Amwell (not to be confused with the village, south of Ware, of the same name.)

Watchet was one of medieval Somerset's most important towns, and its harbour remained important into the 20th century, exporting iron ore from the Brendon Hills to the south.

OPENED in 1904, Caldecott Park was designed by Mr Edward Thomas of Aughton, Lancashire, who won £20 for his plan (a triangular park with a large clump of trees in the centre) in a newspaper competition

The cemetery reportedly has a gravestone dedicated to a lady described as 'a weak and sinful worm, the vilest of her race'!

This rubber factory was built between 1947 and 1953; it was thought to be a visionary building, not least for its roof made up of nine rectangular domes with windows on each of their sides.

There were continual public fears about the purity of London’s water supply.

Launceston Castle is of the classic motte and bailey design: a high central tower stands on a mound surrounded by the bailey defences.

Two ancient churches occupy sites in the Old Town: St Mary's in nearby Lowgate, and the Church of the Holy Trinity, shown here with its attendant market stalls.

The Grand Union was created in the 1920s from a network of independent canals linking London with the industrial towns of the West and East Midlands.

Kendal—the 'Auld Grey Town' on the River Kent—was founded on wealth won from the wool of Lakeland sheep. Stricklandgate, the northern extension of Highgate, is one of Kendal's main thoroughfares.

Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain have stayed at the local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel.

Lanhydrock House, once the seat of the Robartes family, is now one of the National Trust's best-loved Cornish properties.

A member of the local constabulary is on point duty in Lord Street.

A panoramic view taken from Shakespeare Cliff shows to advantage the sweep of this famous harbour.

Dalgleish Way is part of the later 1950s and early 1960s village expansion.

This is a mid 18th-century symmetrical brick building of quality, two and a half storeys high and five bays wide.

Wollaston expanded farther after World War II and this view is of former council housing, part of an estate built in the south-east of the town.

An electric tram, bound for the Circus, passes the three-gabled, half- timbered and overhanging frontage of the 16th- century house where Robert Raikes, the founder of the Sunday School

The building on the right of the bridge was called the Custom House Hotel at this date - it was later named the Dolphin. The original Custom House was in Sandgate on the other side of the road.

The castle, much enlarged by the Dukes of Norfolk, along with their Roman Catholic cathedral, dominates this picturesque hill town, giving it a distinctly French character in distant views.The bridge over