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A barefoot boy with a stick guides two donkeys back to their stand on the pullover.

Following the move of the gaol and assizes to Bodmin in 1842, the grounds were landscaped and turned into a pleasure park by the Duke of Northumberland.

Glencoe village stands on the shores of Loch Leven. Here we see a row of classic stone-built thatched cottages, in the characteristic vernacular style.

Bangor's chief trade was the export of slates, mined from Lord Penrhyn's quarries at Bethesda, and carried by rail to Port Penrhyn. The quay here was 300 yards long.

Around a hundred years before this picture was taken, the cobblestones of Newark Market Place would have echoed to the clatter of stagecoaches and carriers' waggons.

The manner in which animals were slaughtered, and housed whilst at market, brought forward demands from the government for cleaner market surfaces and the limewashing of all carts coming into and

Quarrymen and their families must have occupied a high proportion of the cottages, working to fulfil the 18th- and 19th-century demand for slate both as a roofing material, and for graveyard

South of the church, and facing the market place, is Jesus Hospital which was founded in 1591 for 26 poor men.

This section takes a tour from east of Stamford into the fenland of Lincolnshire, mostly in the former administrative county of Holland, very much the flat country.

On the extreme left is the east wing of Wisbech Museum, which was built upon the filled-in moat of the castle.

We are looking over Exmouth from the high ground to the east of the resort, with the sands of the Maer, a glorious open space, in the middle distance.

This London terminus of the Great Northern Railway was opened in 1852. It was built on the site of the old Smallpox Hospital.

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others.

Farningham is just a short distance from Eynsford, set at another pretty crossing of the Darent between ridges of chalk hills.

More civic architecture here in the shape of Queensway Hall in Court Drive; in line for this era of betterment, the Hall is housing an improvement grant exhibition.

The decline of the herring fishery was offset to a certain extent by dredging for scallops and queenies. In 1937 the first dredging operations on a commercial scale were undertaken around Port Erin.

In 1506 the Archduke Phillip of Austria and his wife the Spanish Infanta Joanna were brought to Charminster after being cast ashore on the Dorset coast.

The Market was newly-opened in the year of this photograph. It was designed by the local firm Leeming and Leeming of Northgate, with a lofty roof supported by richly-decorated ironwork.

The photographer is looking south-west across the pretty market town of Wendover, which lies on the edge of the Chilterns.

The main entrance to the churchyard where Church Street turns left to become Parsons Fee is distinguished by a pair of elegant early 18th-century gate piers in fine-jointed red brick surmounted by stone

A closer view of the Ilchester Arms Inn.

A little further south, is Jesus Hospital, a fine quadrangle of 28 single- storey almshouses with a taller entrance bay.

It was funded by local merchants grown wealthy in the wool trade, and some of their stories are told in the notable collection of brasses found inside.

The harbour was developed by the railway companies—wagons of the London Midland Scottish Line are drawn up at the quayside.