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Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the

Richard Tempest, lord of the manor, was probably advised by King Henry VI about this beautiful church in Perpendicular style when he was sheltering the royal visitor in 1500.

The first house on the left is a 16th-century timber-framed structure with an early 17th-century façade.

The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards.

The initials TH and LHH which appear over the tower door and on the family pew stand for Thomas Hibbert and his sister Letitia Hamilton Hibbert, of Birtles Hall.

No parking restrictions were in place at this date, and the Market Place served as the bus station. Car ownership was still a minority activity, despite the number of cars we can see here.

Dedicated to St Andrew, this church is surprisingly large because William de Greystoke obtained a royal licence in 1358 to establish a college here to replace a simple cruciform church.

Mid-way between Chailey and Haywards Heath is Scaynes Hill, and this photograph shows the summit of the hill. Though there is still a pub here, it is now called the Farmers.

We are now on the Oxfordshire bank. This is a view looking east, with Nag's Head Island in the middle distance.

This view is not of the 15th-century bridge at Culham, but of the one on the road that crosses the Culham Cut, with Culham Lock a hundred yards behind the photographer.

The quiet High Street, populated only by a Ford 105E Anglia, a Wolseley Hornet, a Ford Consul, and (peeping out of the corner on the left) a Fordson tractor, is a far cry from the days when Swavesey

Despite the heavy rainfall, the supply of clean drinking water was once a problem in Merthyr Tydfil.

A bracing north-easterly catches flags and furls the lugsails of three packed boats entering harbour.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

Opened in 1906 with a length of half a mile, the pier incorporated an electric tramway - one of its cars is clearly visible in the photograph.

The tour has to reach Bury by road, but until the 1950s you could get from Amberley to Bury by ferry. The wharf was restored in 1997 with concrete steps.

The famous twin towers of the Norman church, built on the site of an earlier Saxon abbey and the centre of the Roman fortress of Regulbium, built around AD 280 by Carausius, were for many centuries a landmark

Barrow-in-Furness sprang from a tiny hamlet in the 19th century to become the world's largest producer of iron and steel, and a major force in the world of shipbuilding.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

This view is looking down from the road bridge; things have changed greatly at Sandy.

Elizabeth I was entertained here when the manor belonged to the Cheneys.

Founded by the Saxons, Sandwich was once a Cinque Port at the mouth of the River Stour, but owing to silting it is now two miles from the sea.

The church is dedicated to St.Wilfrid, the Archbishop of York in the 660s. Wilfrid is a northern dedication, and usually denotes an ancient church.

Here we see the front face of Owen's College on Oxford Road, and you can see similarities to the Assize Court, and even the Town Hall, all of which were designed by Alfred Waterhouse.