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The Squirrels Inn, on the corner of Squirrel Lane, is virtually unchanged - an attractive ironstone building with a thatched roof.

The village is said to have begun as a result of a shipwreck, when the survivors from a French ship scrambled ashore and decided to stay.

The historic core of Charlwood is to the west of the view seen in photograph No 54172, by the medieval parish church of St Nicholas which was restored by William Burgess in 1858.

An ancient royal burgh, Perth was once capital of Scotland.

Vagrants have wandered the fields and lanes of Britain down the centuries. Sunject to no laws, they were the truly free people of the world.

At the northernmost point away from Hailsham we reach Crowborough, a village that became a health resort in the 1870s when Lord Abergavenny followed the advice of a Dr Prince.

When the bus station opened on 20 May 1963, much Castleford history was lost with the demolition of the Queen's Head Hotel and Wainwright Street.

The 1793 fountain remains, while the Georgian bay windows to the range beyond conceal Bishop Bekynton's mid 15th-century Nova Opera, a range of houses over workshops and shops built along the

East of the town and the Abbey, Glastonbury Tor rises abruptly to 525 feet above sea level from the 'island' above the Moors on which Glastonbury is built.

The High Street runs parallel to the north wall of the Abbey precinct and has a good range of Georgian and early 19th-century two- and three-storey houses.

Through much of the Tudor period the Taylor family lived there, but in 1582 John Taylor found himself in debt, and he had to sell the lease to Henry Middlemore. The price was £1,318.

There are plenty of spectators on the pier to watch the arrival at Hull of the Eclipse class cruiser HMS 'Dido'.

She grieved her loss for the rest of her long life, and the Kingdom mourned with her. She symbolised a nation that was the great maritime empire-builder and the workshop of the world.

In the background is the tower of the celebrated church of St James. Rich in historic detail, it features a Norman doorway and some fine old bench-ends embellished with carved symbols of the Passion.

In the latter part of the 19th century, Royle Hall was the home of Canon Arthur Townley Parker, the long-serving incumbent of St Peter's.

Here a young girl throws crumbs to a family of ducks, a popular pastime for holiday makers. On the right of the group, three young ducklings are hitching a ride on their mothers' backs.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site.

The 1950s was the last decade of the supremacy of the open air pool. Most were rebuilt or covered over and replaced by the modern heated indoor pool.

Here we see a busy scene at the height of the tourist season.

This is one of the numerous 'dens', or forest clearings, in this part of Kent.

This must be the most visited and certainly the best placed souvenir and refreshment shop in Cornwall, just a stone's throw from the tip of Land's End.

In the days when this was an abbey church, the ornate door on the right, the abbot's door, was part of the monks' processional route from the choir to the cloisters, which were located in the corner of

Mums and children gather round to watch the antics of Punch and Judy, or buy an ice cream from Robinson and Eastwood's stall.

The Gardens were part of a scheme to enhance Southport's image as a garden city.