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Liverpool's fifth Customs House was built on the site of the Old Dock and opened in 1839.

These cottages at Newhaven, Fife, are an example of the types of fishermen's dwelling that could be found around harbours from Scotland to at least Cullercoats in Northumbria, usually single-story

In the hey- day of the woollen industry, shepherds and their families came from Wales to live here and tend sheep in the surrounding countryside.

The broad verges and continuous avenue of trees bring green, open space to the High Street and make it an attractive place to explore.

Here we see the interior of the castle, built by Edward I between 1277 and 1289.

The white-painted single-storey building in the middle of the row of shops originally had a thatched roof and was Irby's only shop, doubling also as the village post office.

The 17th-century post office stands at the corner of Bramfield Road and Mardlebury Road. It and the Plough beyond have today changed little since this photograph was taken.

The town was fortunate to have a number of County Schools. The national school was attended by 200 boys and girls.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

Away from the bustle of the main Scarborough road lies the secluded village of Gristhorpe. Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages.

Each corner was once occupied by a public house or inn.

Brompton Barracks were built in 1804-06, originally for artillerymen, and became the headquarters of the Royal Engineers when the School of Military Engineering was founded there in 1812.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

On the left side of the High Street we have a K shoe shop, then Timothy Whites the Chemist, Hepworths, the Congregational Church and Lloyd's Bank.

A beam from the year of the Spanish Armada was found in the remains of the old church.

The Dudley Zoological Society was founded in 1935 to develop a zoo in the environs of Dudley Castle, and the Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) was engaged to design the buildings

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

This has been the home of the Bagot family since 1367, although the building we see here dates from between the 16th and the 19th century.

Along with Deal and Sandown, Walmer was one of the 'Three Castles which keep the Downs'.

In this picture things have quietened down a little, and the policeman on point duty has only one waggon and several horse-trams and horse-drawn omnibuses to dodge.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

On the road linking Guildford and Dorking, this hamlet was one of the medieval centres of the local iron industry, and is named from the hammer-pond that worked a furnace here.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed