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He received a lot of opposition to the building from the locals: as well as fearing they might end up with a white elephant on their hands, they were understandably concerned that construction would involve

At St Helen's Church the corbelled, pinnacled and crocketed tower stands out in more ways than one: it seems curiously at odds, in size and style, with the rest of the church.

Many of the fishermen's cottages looking towards the harbour were built in three storeys, the ground floor being used for storing and salting their catches of fish.

The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century.

The name 'Llandaff' means 'the sacred enclosure on the river Taff', and Llandaff is one of the earliest ecclesiastical foundations in Wales.

One of the older kilns has been reconstructed at the National Folk Museum, St Fagans. A Benedictine priory was built here, on the site of an earlier church by monks from Gloucester Cathedral.

The village of Braunston lies on a hill overlooking a picturesque stretch of the Grand Union Canal, one of Britain's most famous inland waterways.

Located about eight miles north-west of Northampton, the village of Creaton used to comprise two communities - Great Creaton and Little Creaton.

Along the Evenlode, that gentle Cotswold stream, stands a string of villages all 'under Wychwood', that ancient wood that still remains one of the most extensive stretches of woodland in Oxfordshire, but

The architectural highlight is the Town Hall of 1707, sold to the town by the Earl of Bridgewater for the princely sum of one shilling (5p).

Here we see more late Victorian and Edwardian terraces and villas, mostly built of brick or roughcast. The road curves towards the town centre, passing the end of De Vere Road.

This view looks north along the A15 towards the church of St Guthlac and Bourne.

This photograph of Loftus High Street shows the raised ground to the right known as the 'embankment'.

The Deri is one of the seven peaks surrounding the picturesque town of Abergavenny. The scene today is much the same as the one we see here.

It shows the flagstaff with Cook's ship 'Resolution' on top.

Exmouth enjoyed live theatre quite early on, as seaside resorts go.

Again looking back towards the church, this picture gives a good idea of the size of the Square, with the Market Hall on the left. Note the Dolphin Hotel on the left, and the Bugle Inn opposite.

The earliest parts of the castle are the hall and a small tower, both dating from the 12th century.

John of Gaunt transformed Kenilworth from a Norman fortress to a Gothic palace in the 1390s, and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, favourite of Elizabeth I, further embellished it in the 1560s.

Lyme Regis features a great deal in English literature, being the setting of Jane Austen's novel 'Persuasion' and John Fowles's 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'.

The Urban District of King’s Norton and Northfield had a population in excess of 78,000 and covered 22,000 acres.The plans would give Birmingham a population of 850,000, making it the second

Conceived and built by John Nash in 1813, this famous thoroughfare has been said to represent ‘the highest beauty of street architecture.’

On a creek on the north shore of the Helford, Port Navas was once the shipping place for granite from the quarries around Constantine.

An inland view from Britwell Drive (foreground), looking northwards over the car park and a dozen coaches at the end of the B3070 in Lulworth Cove hamlet.