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The estate was held in the 12th century by Sir Robert Croc of Neilston, and it is from him that the castle derives its name.

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars. It must have appeared very modern when it opened in September 1932.

This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland which is just beginning to become built-up as the suburb of Harnham.

Tidworth has few buildings of architectural merit. Holy Trinity is in North Tidworth, the centre of the civilian area.

The village used to be called Auldkirk because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the sixteenth century.

Everard's Commercial Hotel is to the left, and in the distance is the earlier Corn Exchange of 1836. To the right is the cupola of Cupola House.

Both Acock’s Green and Olton were once residential areas favoured by the wealthier inhabitants of Birmingham, but they became progressively industrialized as factories opened along the route of the

Two miles south east of Rotherham, Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This is a fine view of a pastoral hillside. The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row. Holy Trinity church was built towards the end of the last century and features a copy of an Italian Pieta by Francesco Francia.

Cycles are clearly the 'in' thing for Barnstaple ladies at the turn of the century.

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

It is a few years after No R87001 (above), and the High Street is still almost deserted - just a couple of cars but no pedestrians, despite the new-fangled zebra crossing.

It is the site of the first lock on the Thames, which has been rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock for the passage of pleasure boats.

It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.

Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise.

On top of Table Mountain is a 2,500-year-old fort (a crug) of Hywel, from which the town derived its name.

The church of St Chad, with two bells hanging in its open belfry, stands a short distance down the lane opposite the Fenwick Arms.

This old wool town is situated north of Cheltenham in the deep valley of the River Isbourne.

This view of Derwent Terrace from the river shows the boathouses and boats which were used by visitors to this pleasant spa town.

Here we have a panoramic view of Newport.

The gable end of the lifeboat house is seen in the background, almost at the end of the road through the village.

The clock tower dominates the main street of the West Cumberland town.

Boulters Lock is one of the most famous landmarks on the River Thames, and during the Victorian and Edwardian periods drew large crowds of visitors in search of peaceful recreation.