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Peascod Street lies at the centre of Windsor, at the top of the hill. The town centre is characterised by its streets of essentially Victorian and Georgian buildings.

Gulls forage for food in the frozen wastes.The ice has broken and the waters of the river released.

On this bright summer's day, the car park in the heart of the village is packed full of cars.

Nelson's column was not the first choice of monument to embellish Trafalgar Square - a Colonel Trench had proposed a great pyramid to dwarf St Paul's.

Richard Jefferies described the scene in the 1880s: 'Like the spokes of a wheel converging, streams of human life flow into this agitated pool...

In the 18th century, the almost picturesque group of church and school was completed by the addition of the town stocks and whipping post.

Bexhill's ancient manor house was a retreat for the Bishops of Chichester in the Middle Ages, before passing into the ownership of several notable English families such as the Dorsets and Brooks

This older part of the original Bexhill, or rather Bexle, was Saxon in origin. History records that in 772 King Offa of Mercia gave a grant of land to enlarge the parish church.

Here he wrote some of his best known poetry. The cottage is now part of a museum dedicated to the life and work of the poet, who was the founder of the celebrated Lakeland Romantic Movement.

The ivy-clad ruins of Wothorpe House have been an attraction for tourists for over a hundred years, and it is of no surprise that they were included by the Frith photographer in his collection of Stamford

The wide sweep of the right-hand sea wall and the outer mole demonstrates the studied construction of a man-made harbour built specifically to offer protection against variable winds and

The thatched linhay was ubiquitous at the time of this picture. Today, they are hard to find. Are the cows thin versions of the shorthorn, the standard milk cow of the era?

Crossing Mary Street from the southern end of the High Street brings the explorer of Taunton to Vivary Park.

Travellers from Taunton to the Quantock Hills usually go by way of Kingston - and a very picturesque route it is.

It is a tragedy of our century that the elevations of many of our finest buildings are defaced by the necessities of modern life. If only Mr Bird could have sited his garage elsewhere!

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.

The tiny hump-backed bridge at Ashness on the narrow road which leads up from the eastern shore of Derwent Water to the Norse hamlet of Watendlath has been seen on countless Lake District calendars,

Also at the ceremony were Prince Philip, the Duke of Beaufort, the Archbishop of Wales, the Secretary of State for Wales and the Bishop of Bristol.

The village of Sea Palling was changed irrevocably by the east coast floods of 1953.

This picture of the village is typical of rural Wales in the 1960s. A small number of houses still manages to support a pub and grocery store - this one is part of the Mace chain.

By the 1960s, only craft drawing less than 21 ins of water could attempt the river north of Stourport, and even then their passage into Bewdley was blocked by a shoal about one mile south of the town.

Cranborne Church, at the heart of the ancient hunting Chase, is one of the largest churches in Dorset.

Motorists speeding through Duffield on the A6 miss this view of the fine buttressed bridge across the River Ecclesbourne.

A classic view of the three spires.The spires are those of St Michael's (295 ft), Holy Trinity (237 ft), and the octagonal steeple (230 ft) of Christ Church.