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The monument apologises to Bishop Hooper, in a sense.

Typifying the sixties town planning dream here, Broad Walk presents a range of shops away from the hazard and pollution of the motor car.

Lads of all ages pose in groups for the camera in this traffic-free scene, with the turret clock at the lower end of the street.

We are on the south-east coast at Cawsand Bay; the twin villages perched above the beach, where fishing boats are drawn up. The fields and woods of the Mount Edgcumbe estate reach down to the water.

Licensees changed frequently at this inn, and it is T Izard who now has his name displayed, keeping a signwriter in work if nothing else.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

The almshouses stand at the junction of Friar Street and Union Street on a site previously occupied by the city gaol.

The church was built in 1841-45 by Thomas Henry Wyatt and D Brandon for the Rt Hon Sir Sidney Herbert, Secretary of War, a member of the Earl of Pembroke's family.

Dingwall stands on the Cromarty Firth. It was the home town of General Hector MacDonald (1853-1903), who enlisted in the 92nd Highlanders at the age of 17.

During the siege of York it is thought that guns were placed on the roof here, but there is some controversy about this.

Also, there were no proper urinals for the men to use at night. Not an attraction for new recruits! Thank goodness, these problems were eventually sorted out.

There is documentary evi- dence that the Ship Inn on the left dates from at least 1600, and its cobbled court- yard remains today thanks to a preservation order.

Many of the people seen here would be day trippers rather than resident visitors, having come for a breath of fresh sea air on one of the many excursion trains from inland.

The second highest part of Bodmin Moor is Rough Tor, at 1311 feet.

A large proportion of the settlers were young themselves—look at the number of children and pushchairs here.

The Irish Sea can be as flat as a mill pond, but when an easterly, south-easterly or north-easterly gale blows up, this is what happens at Douglas.

To the left, an artist sits at an easel and paints Lulworth Cove, while his wife shades herself with a parasol.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles. The village had a pub, the Bridge Inn, which was designed to look like an old coaching inn, but opened as a temperance hotel.

The tiny church of St Olaf at Wasdale Head is said to be among the smallest in England; but surrounded as it is by the dramatic mountains of Wasdale, it is also one of the most visited.

Wasdale and Wastwater can be said to have seen the birth of the sport of rock climbing, and climbers from all over Britain stayed at local hostelries such as the Victoria Hotel.

Long Meg and her Daughters, a Bronze Age monument near Little Salkeld, is the largest stone circle in the Lake District, and one of the biggest in Britain.

Abingdon Abbey was founded in 675 AD, and the town grew up at its gates. However, nothing remains of its great monastic church.

As every schoolchild knows (or used to), the tidal Thames finishes at Teddington. The main river is crossed by this spindly-looking suspension bridge of 1888, seen here from the lock island.

The village of Seabrook has now merged with the town of Hythe, but at the time of this photograph was quite separate.