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As we look from Tower Bridge, the dominance of William the Conqueror's White Tower keep, dating from the late 11th century and still the focus of the castle, is now somewhat reduced by office blocks, including

One of the attractions at Embleton is its golf course, once only 9 holes but now the full 18.

This pleasant, tucked-away village, three miles from Cranbrook, is open and scattered in structure, like others in this part of Kent. It was once noted for cloth manufacture.

It was the home of the Palmer family in the time of Henry VIII. Ecclesden Manor is a long, low Tudor-style house built in 1634.

His sermons were by Victorian standards blessedly brief, on account of his hunting horse usually being saddled and waiting in the churchyard.

Only the feet of the carter are visible, as his horse stands patiently waiting while he unloads part of his wares from the back of his wagon for delivery to the creeper-festooned cottages in this village

We are a few miles out of Bingley between Harden and Cullingworth. Gone these days are the bridge, the rustic seat and the picnic table, but the tranquillity of this beauty spot remains.

The church of St John the Evangelist was consecrated in 1634 and retains its oaken interior and a great screen which is considered to be one of the finest of its type in England.

James Graham, fifth Marquess of Montrose was one the greatest tacticians of the Civil War. Fighting for Charles I, Montrose won victory after victory, often against overwhelming odds.

On the right are the Saracen's Head and the Clinton Arms Hotel, which once boasted stabling facili- ties for no less than ninety horses.

Raised above the road, behind a rather forbidding local stone boundary wall, the rather stumpy three-stage crenellated west tower is all that remains of the medieval church.

Bandstands are, by their very nature, fascinating pieces of municipal equipment.

The four-storey gabled house on the right with the flight of steps is Blagroves House. This is now the oldest surviving house in the town.

The fine 14th-century church of St Mary, built of local sandstone, has a Perpendicular tower with dumpy crocketed pinnacles and full-length aisles of the same width as the nave and chancel.

South-east of the village, a lane crosses the county boundary with Bedfordshire along the upper reaches of the young River Ouzel.

Here the photographer looks across the High Street westwards from Church Headland Lane with the start of Market Hill to the left of the thatched cottage, Cobwebs.

The tower of the parish church was rebuilt in 1709.

Five of the seven water chutes have gabled canopies, and were restored in 1863 for the Reverend Thomas Keble (brother of John Keble, the famous hymn writer and founder of the Oxford Movement).

This view shows the Georgian façade of the New Bath Hotel, originally known as Mr Tyack's New Bath Hotel.

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.

In the days of horse-drawn trams Darlington Street was considered wide enough for a single line only, and here inbound and outbound cars have made use of the passing loop.

Brookhouse is an ancient village north-east of Lancaster just above Caton. It is at a junction on the old Caton to Claughton road, which we can see going off to the left.

We are looking down Castle Hill, by the wall of Lancaster Castle. St Mary's Parade is to the left, going up to the church. The Judge's Lodgings are at the bottom of Castle Hill down the lane.

A busy late morning scene in Colchester's High Street at the turn of the century.The Town Hall, which dominates this view, was not completed until 1902.The High Street lies along the central axis