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Winchester lies on the western banks of the River Itchen at a crossing important to Iron Age dwellers thousands of years ago.

Great Haywood lies at the junction of the Trent & Mersey with the Staffs & Worcestershire canals.

Sandhurst has expanded enormously in the second half of the 20th century.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than ornament.

A mixture of craft lie alongside the jetty awaiting to load.

Like Yarmouth, Lowestoft is a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort; holiday-makers came here as the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

This statue of Henry Grattan (1746 - 1820) stands outside the Bank of Ireland (formerly the Parliament House) and shows the great orator in the act of speaking.

To a current inhabitant, the most striking feature of this view is the absence of houses in the centre.

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

Here we see the impressive battlemented three-storeyed gatehouse of Archbishop Courtenay's college for a master and twenty-four chaplains.

Another general view, this time of the tranquil Usk as it wends its way down towards the Severn estuary south of Newport, Gwent. The Usk rises south-west of Trecastle in Powys.

Luton had experienced modernization in local government, with the Board of Health taking over key responsibilities involving water supply, care of the poor and the establishment of a regular

Unlike King's Lynn, which remained predominantly a port, Great Yarmouth was able to embrace the functions of both port and holiday destination, with its harbour channel to the west and its holiday

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

A long-vanished view of Hoveton in the days of the horse and cart, the flaming torch sign for the school approach and the neatly thatched cottage.

Excavations were carried out on the Chapter House in 1902, when the graves of five Abbots, including that of Abbot Sampson, were discovered.

The late 17th-century Town Hall was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, whose father was Dean of Windsor.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than orna- ment.

Another general view of Matlock Bath, looking up towards the wooded Heights of Abraham on the skyline.

In Upton's churchyard lies a landlord of The White Lion.

On the corner of Kings Mill Lane, some timber-framed cottages are built gable-end to the street.

Only a mile or so from Petworth, the village of Byworth typifies the rural community in this Edwardian photograph.

On the downlands close by are a considerable number of prehistoric barrows - burial grounds of some of the earliest inhabitants.