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Cuddesdon was once the home of the bishops of Oxford. There was a palace here, set ablaze in 1644 to prevent the Parliamentary troops in the Civil War from seizing it.

At the top of Sheep Street is the largely 17th-century Hind Hotel, perhaps the best secular building in the town.

The church of St Wilfred is another of the hundreds of Lincolnshire limestone churches, and it has not changed in almost fifty years. The church was damaged by fire in 1599 and restored in 1601.

The days of floodlighting have arrived too, although at this time the lights are illuminating the George's sign rather than the front of the building as they do today.

Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town.

A crowded WSV 'Tern' prepares to embark on a trip down Windermere from the Waterhead pier on a summer's day.

About twenty-five miles downstream from its source we reach the stone-built town of Lechlade on the Gloucestershire bank of the Thames. The Ha'penny Bridge was built in 1792 to replace a ferry.

In the shadow of Europe's first million kilowatt power station, opened in 1962, lies this Georgian house.

Situated to the east of Acock’s Green, and four miles from the city centre,Yardley is one of the parishes absorbed by Birmingham in 1911.

Here we see the east front of Chatsworth from the French Gardens, now with pillars removed and known as the Rose Garden.

This is a good study of the stark angularity favoured by 1960s architects. The children's clothing, too, is characteristic of the time.

Prior to the late-Victorian development on this part of the seafront, it would have been possible to see Castle Mona, the residence built in 1804 for Governor James Murray (later Fourth Duke of Atholl)

The overhanging first-floor jetties of the whitewashed houses add to the medieval charm of the village, which is a favourite of the many visitors to the Lake District.

Southampton Airport lies to the south of Eastleigh town centre and it was from here that the first Spitfire began her maiden flight in 1936.

Selling is a pretty village of orchards, oasts and timbered houses set amongst hills. It summons up the essence of the old county of Kent with its hop gardens and orchards.

Along Hall Quay are clustered craft of every kind: flat-bottomed barges, wherries and fishing boats - it is still the age of the sail.

This long view of the beach is seen here from a vantage point above the Alexandra Gardens.

Lowestoft is very much a mixture of fishing port and seaside resort, the latter the result of the arrival of the railway in the mid 19th century.

The main facade of Trinity College stands on the right with its statues by Foley of famous alumni Edmund Burke and Oliver Goldsmith, while on the left is the Bank of Ireland.

This north side of the green was known as Beaux Walk in the 19th century because of its numerous gentlemen's clubs, several of which still exist.

Sitting up on the moors, nine miles southwest of Whitby, is the village of Goathland. It became involved in the hydropathic movement with the opening of the Goathland Hydropathic Establishment.

A view of the ordnance depot of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

Dominating its rather mundane surroundings, Holy Rood Church, built between 1883-90, was the inspiration of J F Bentley, later to be the architect of London's Westminster Cathedral, and its brickwork

This fine Gothic archway was erected by subscription to the memory of Humphrey Millett Grylls in 1834; it is built in granite ashlar with four tall octagonal pillars.