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The town of Poole grew up around the older quays of the great harbour; during these times it was purely functional, catering for mercantile activities, shipping and pottery manufactured from the

A young boy stands thoughtfully on the Long Bridge, which spans Cuckoo Weir. Across the meadow you can see the spire of Clewer Church.

This quaint old pair of 18th-century cottages are built out of the local sarsen stone. Beyond is the Old Manor, dating from the early 16th century.

The 15th-century tower of All Saints, the Anchor pub and the elevation of the bridge, which is medieval in origin with 19th-century additions, add up to a classic photograph of the entrance to the village

In this late Victorian view from in front of numbers 12 to 14 Minster Yard, the quality of the mainly 13th-century Gothic cathedral comes over well.

The road through the village became one of the first turnpike roads in Oxfordshire.

Thomas Stonor built the Town Hall in 1664 to commemorate the restoration of the monarchy at the end of the Civil War.

Here we see harvest home in the village of Netherbury. Perhaps the harvesters have retreated to the Star Inn, seen in the centre of this picture, after their hard day's work.

Horsted Keynes, situated on the western edge of the Ashdown Forest, has a green and an assortment of period houses and cottages.

Neatly-kept gardens and colourful flowerbeds brighten the station buildings at Burgh-by-Sands, a small village near the mouth of the Eden on the Solway Firth.

Milford on Sea has been a successful small resort since Victorian times, and its devotees return again and again. The beach is shingly, but the bathing is safe.

The white-painted CB Hotel in remote Arkengarthdale recalls the initials of Charles Bathurst, the 19th-century lead mining master who owned the circular powder house of the CB Smelt Mill nearby.

Low Petergate (seen in the previous photograph) and High Petergate run up to Bootham Bar, one of York's still surviving medieval gates in the city walls, and to the Thirsk road out of the city.

Beachy Head is where the chalk range of the South Downs reaches the sea in magnificent chalk cliffs rearing almost vertically five hundred feet out of the sea.

The view looking beyond the Lansdowne Hotel and the Grand Hotel is now dominated by South Cliff Tower, an eighteen-storey block of flats about which the words 'sore thumb' come unbidden to mind: an example

This main street runs parallel to the shore, and displays many of the late 19th-century shops that accompanied its development as a resort during that period.

The half-timbered frontage of the George and Dragon inn (on the left of the photograph) dates from 1515.

The building with the jettied gables to the left dates back to the 17th century, on the face of it one of the oldest buildings in St Ives, although earlier buildings survive behind more modern facades.

This view from The King's Head at Newton-under-Roseberry shows the quarried face of Roseberry Topping, known affectionately as 'the Matterhorn of Cleveland', which stands at just over 1,000 feet above

Lydney is situated upon the northern side of the Severn almost opposite Sharpness.

A deserted seat stands invitingly under the spreading chestnut tree on the village green at Cropton, four miles from Pickering on the southern edge of the North York Moors.

Only a year earlier Mr R M Broadbent had opened the Groudle Glen Hotel as part of a continuing series of improvements to attract visitors.

Just a handful of people and two bathing machines can be seen in this late-Victorian photograph of Stokes Bay.

The pleasing interior of the church is the result of Sir George Gilbert Scott's work. He had the choir stalls re-arranged to allow more space.