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Behind the spot where the photographer must have stood is Windrush Valley School, founded in 1951, and the low building on the extreme right of the picture, next to the three-gabled house

The Town Hall, standing in the middle of the High Street, was given by Lawrence Hyde, first Earl of Rochester, in 1700. Restored in 1889, it was presented to the town by Lady Meux in 1906.

North Street joins High Street by Lloyds Bank, and it is down here on the left that we find the last Daventry Grammar School building.

With its imposing 160ft-high tower, Cromer church was erected in the reign of Henry IV and dedicated to St Peter and St Paul.

This building replaced a fine Gothic-style mansion which was burnt down before its completion in 1829.

In 1997 a statue of William Webb Ellis was unveiled by the rugby player Jeremy Guscott in front of the New Quad building.

Resplendent in her Victorian livery of black hull, white upperworks, yellow ochre masts and funnel, she was built at Poplar in 1878, engined by Maudsley and purchased by the Admiralty for £240,000

On the board above the toll house door are listed the charges for the passage of vehicles and animals through the gate that once stood here.

This motor historian's delight contains many cars and vans typical of its date.

The slate-hung buildings are 11 and 13 High Street, two of the oldest in town.

The slate-hung buildings are 11 and 13 High Street, two of the oldest in town.

The wide, swinging jetty curve leads the eye into the activity of boats and men in both the middle ground and the foreground.

Until the A6 was pushed between the two villages, it made its way via their narrow rather tortuous streets. At the end of the 20th century, unfortunate changes were inflicted on this view.

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester, and to the west of the busy A6.

This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in

This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.

The original castle at Chepstow was begun by William Fitz Osbern in 1067. The site chosen was a long narrow ridge high above the River Wye.

This view shows Caerphilly following the restoration both of its fabric and its water defences by the Marquis of Bute.

This view shows the western end of East Street, with a closer look at the Town Hall clock-tower and cupola, and Colmer`s Hill forming the conical eminence in the distance (centre).

Two mighty rivers, the Aire and the Calder, join at Castleford, and water power began the industrial revolution in this old Roman settlement.

The earliest reference to a church at Kingston tells of the crowning of Saxon kings and a Great Council taking place in the 9th century.

The small village based around the manor of Rossington was enlarged to its west side once coal reserves had been found.

Newby Hall was built by Sir Christopher Wren for the MP of Ripon, Sir Edward Blackett, during the 1690s.

This is not so much of a square as a roundabout these days. There is no car parking today, but a busy road junction with a cannon in the centre.