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Situated on the north bank of the Medway, the original motte and bailey castle was replaced with stone by the early 13th century, when the shell keep was built.

The old village of Ealing was south of the Broadway, with the parish church beyond Ealing Green.

These wonderful characters are keeping their pots in good order; this was an essential job for the fishermen when not at sea. They used local oak and hazel.

The brick and ornamented stone interior of the church was augmented by the chancel screen, installed here in 1931, which was designed by Ryan Tenison and had formerly stood in the chapel of St John's College

This is a quiet town on the south bank of the River Stour, at the point where it begins to widen into the estuary.

It is Market Day in the busy little town of Thirsk, standing at the foot of the Hambleton Hills, halfway between York and Darlington.

Holidaymakers queue up for the traditional offshore boat trip, while in the background the 19th-century pier steps out to sea on its spindly legs.

In the early 1930s an architectural competition was won by a young New Zealand architect, R H Uren, for a new town hall in the Broadway, with a design very closely allied to Dudok's Town Hall at Hilversum

Further up Church Road, we are looking at the backs of 18th-century houses on Church End, the lane which leads to the medieval parish church of St Laud, out of shot to the left.

The foundation stone of this building was laid with two gold sovereigns beneath it, not in the north-east corner but at the southern end of the building, in 1889.

The core of the old village lies at the north end of Central Avenue, where the road becomes Bridgford Road.

The site is now occupied by a supermarket, which may or may not have greater social benefit, and sick children are catered for at Arrowe Park Hospital, with the reassuring backup of Alder Hey in

Wallasey Docks were built on what was known as Wallasey Pool, a once wild and beautiful tidal creek.

Madingley Hall was the home of Colonel Harding - in 1909 he was carrying out an extensive restoration programme.

The Spirella Company came to Letchworth in 1910. The new factory was commissioned in 1912, and was built over the following eight years.

This view, with the Grand Hotel on the left, shows the extent of the beach.

Aberdour in the Kingdom of Fife, lies between Burntisland and Dalgety Bay, just across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh.

Roman builders mixed crushed seashells from Portsmouth Harbour with clay from the creek to produce bricks for the fort.

The Marine Lake covered what had been fifty acres of wet sand, which was one of the favourite haunts of sand yacht enthusiasts.

The full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

The village has acquired international fame as the home of the Quorn Hunt; its founder Hugo Meynell took residence in 1753 at Quorn Hall (now an educational centre).

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

Dedicated to St Swithun, a Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862, this imposing structure, dating from the 1790s, stands on the site of an earlier church that had been reduced to ruins by the collapse

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph No 71178. The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.