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Here we see the southern end of the sands on a very crowded day in the 1950s, with the cranes of the harbour and Nothe Fort in the distance.

This is an odd echo of the past; moored hereabouts 700 years ago would have been ocean-going trading vessels loading up with tin.

When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the

The old gateway to the priory of the Knights of St John stands in St John's Lane, south of the Clerkenwell Road.

Limestone rocks are a major part of Lathkill Dale.

The Pilgrim Fathers' Monument is built of Portland stone and rises 50 feet above the ground.

The ornate obelisk of 1763 commemorates a chapel that once stood on High Bridge.

Cirencester has managed to keep the worst ravages of unsympathetic development at bay.

The Children's Playground is in a westward projection of the common.

Bamford's parish church of St John the Baptist is largely a William Butterfield restoration dating from 1861.

The Windmill pub, on the left, was a new replacement for an earlier building which had burnt down.

Note that the pub sign is missing in this interesting Edwardian picture of Eversley. The sign-writing and decoration above the door is unusual and rather striking.

When this photograph was taken, the population of Yateley was just over one thousand. Less than one hundred years later, in the closing stages of the 20th century, it had risen to about 20,000.

This view of the village was taken from St Bride's. The Square, the building located at the head of the slipway, was once the village post office and is now part of the Mermaid restaurant.

There are plenty of changing tents on this beach, where a group of boys wave at the camera (centre foreground).

Originally one of four market crosses, the Poultry Cross, at the junction of Butcher Row and Minster Street, is the only one to survive.

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.

A charter of 1560 appeared to give the vote to the 'commonality' of the town.

Sailing barges are moored in the harbour, with the Lighthouse in the centre of the picture.The harbour was originally important not just for the coasters and fishing traders, but as the place of

This is one of several villages typical of the industrial china clay area around St Austell.

Jane Austen, the novelist, lies under a slab of marble in the north aisle of the Cathedral. She died at a house in College Street in 1817.

The area is known as the Eye of Yorkshire, or the Eye of the Ridings. Parliamentary elections were held here until the 19th century. Two of the courts are still used on a daily basis.

This attractive village retains its quiet rural atmosphere; it is ranged along its north-south street about a mile to the south of Kibworth Beauchamp.

It is a truism that when you want to look at the history (even the relatively recent history) of a place you should always look at the upper storeys of buildings.