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A fascinating picture of a suburban street. On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

The white windmill, built by Richard Cookson in 1805, was in working order until 1918, when the fire damaged it.

On the east side of the 5-acre village green, now used for cricket matches, is the Hall, built in 1732. It was the country seat of the Duke of Leeds, who lived at Kiveton Park in south Yorkshire.

This strong two-arched stone bridge spans the River Ribble at Gisburn. Note the two farm carts with shafts designed for sturdy horses to the right of the yeoman farmer's dwelling.

In Lancashire, man-made stretches of water to serve mills were often called lodges. From the lodge, a channel or 'goit' carried water to the wheel.

Situated between the River Thames and Quarry Woods, made famous in Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows', Bisham is one of Berkshire's most historic villages.

Stile House is typical of the smarter villas of Regency Lyme. It takes its name from the adjacent Stile Path through the bushes (top left) from Pound Street to the Cobb.

East of Chiddingfold the lanes wind to Alfold, which lies close to the Sussex border.

The High Street runs from the parish church, with its white-painted weatherboarded tower, to the Guildford road in the distance.

The route turns west, and passes through East Hanney to West Hanney, a village with two parallel lanes and a small green at the east end.

The clock above the Market Hall (centre) was a favourite rendezvous point for many courting couples on their way to the theatre and cinemas.

The towers of the bridge were 150ft high and at the top of each there was a lantern with a copper roof.

We are less than a mile inland from the true Lizard - the most southerly point in England - and at the end of the A3083, which rolls out across the peninsula from Helston.

The hall now seats 1,000, and is undergoing much-needed remedial work on the corroded concrete.

The stone flaming urn of the war memorial, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, holds centre stage at the crossroads in this attractive village built exclusively in the native Cotswold stone.

This coastal caravan site is seen from National Trust fields on the edge of Ringstead hamlet.

The attractive stone built village stands on high undulating ground some four miles north-east of Oakham.

Greyfriars House was built for William Herbert c1570 utilising the old Franciscan friary on the site as a quarry, the friary having been closed at the Dissolution.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

This area was connected with the iron industry.The church has a Tudor doorway and a Norman piscina on a carved pillar.Thomas Turner, who lived in the village in the mid-18th century, left an important

In the 1920s and 30s Walter Collins printed a well-known series of sepia postcards of the town.

Its replacement, the Railway Hotel that we see here, was built between the wars at the Station Lane junction. The pub became especially well-known for its home-cooked hams.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

Actually this picture was taken a mile south of the hamlet of Ystradfellte at the place where the River Mellte tumbles into the dark mouth of this cave, which in English means White Horse Cave.