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The original George Hotel was Walsall's chief coaching inn during the era when the town was served by at least a dozen coaches daily.

Disturbed water at the cliff base indicates the power and force of the seas as they surge into the bay and crash against the beach.

The church in the picture is St James. This was built as a chantry chapel to All Saints, which was in the Saxon part of the town, well away from the newer area.

Tin Town 1917 Around the time this photograph was taken, the first of a series of Army camps was erected at Bramshott.

Nine years before it was taken, a young Flora Thompson, who wrote the trilogy 'Lark Rise to Candleford', came to Grayshott to work at the post office.

On the left can be seen the Embassy Cinema, which at the time this photograph was taken was showing 'The African Queen' with Humphrey Bogart. Further down are Woolworth's and Dewhurst Butchers.

This picturesque locality has always attracted the eye of artist and photographer. One Victorian guide book writer described Beer as 'a rare subject for the pencil'.

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves - the new and the old.

Main Street c1955 Victorian visitors had a number of inns to choose from when seeking sustenance in the town, some acting as fully-fledged hotels.

The floating bridge crossed the Medina from West to East Cowes. Notice the wharves and docks in the background.

At the end of South Gate is the Market Place, which has on its east side one of Lincolnshire's finest churches.

St Mawes comprises a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf.

By the 1920s, Fittleworth had become an artists' mecca owing to its pretty woods, its fine views from its commons, its quaint architecture and, it has been suggested, the warm welcome offered at the Swan

The village is situated at the crossing of the roads from Haywards Heath to Brighton and from Hurst to Lewes.

Part of Beeding's Bridge is just visible on the small rise at the far western end of the High Street, next to the Bridge Inn on the left.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

The size of these hotels shows how busy and popular the resort of St Anne's was in those days. The sea came well up to the promenade; in later years, as at Southport, it has receded.

The Thames and Severn canal opened in 1789, connecting the River Severn with the Thames at Lechlade.

At first glimpse Bibury church, with its castellated roofline and square tower, looks largely 15th-century. On closer examination, however, the fabric's earlier origins become evident.

The manor is mentioned in the Domesday book, the detailed survey of property which was conceived by William the Conqueror at Christmas 1085 in Gloucester.

Until Blackpool's third pier was built at South Shore in 1893, the one here was known as South Pier.

Then, as now, the beach was popular with children, who here play at the water's edge whilst older boys admire the moored fishing boat.

The canal opened in 1817, and ran from Kendal to Lancaster, later continuing south to connect with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal via a tramway at Preston.

The early 18th-century Bell Inn on the Eastbourne Road was one of several important staging inns in this village when Cobbett came here in 1822 and lauded it as being beautiful.