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The Shipwright's Arms on the left is still open for business, and its name gives an indication of one of the old trades in town - until the late years of Victoria's reign the town's main industry was the

In 1913, Hastings Corporation began an ambitious scheme at a cost of £100,000 to improve all aspects of the sea front - including the construction of places of entertainment, pleasure grounds and

A row of mainly Georgian houses gives a gracious air to the village.

A delightful view of Hazelgrove, a popular area of the town for promenading.

Gothic, Jacobean, classical and domestic architecture testify to the history of the town's development. Note the attractive, almost Flemish gabling of the building in the centre of the picture.

As an important cathedral city, Winchester established an important tradition of tending the sick, probably from the days when pilgrims came to the shrine of St Swithun in search of miraculous cures

The Priory Church of Our Lady of the Annunciation opened its doors soon after the old parish church of St Mary was abandoned.

This stream is crossed by the major A47 in the distance, now controlled by traffic lights owing to the large volume of traffic.

This view illustrates the three main occupations of the people of Borth – seafaring, farming, and tending to the needs of holidaymakers.

Cattle near the water suggest a hot summer's day in the village of Carrog. The fine stone bridge of 1661 has yet to experience the heavy traffic of more recent times.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.

There are two of these large man-made ponds at the front of the college. This, the left-hand one, is always full of ducks and other wild fowl.

Richard I was responsible for establishing a settlement on Portsea Island, and it was he who built the first dock on Portsmouth in the late 12th century.

This view gives a clear example of the impact commercial motor traffic had on the Great North Road, prior to the building of the M1 motorway.

In 1882, the wealthy lord of the manor and the father of the incumbent Rector of Ashtead, Sir Thomas Lucas, donated a small iron church for the expanding population in this part of the parish.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Staines may have got its name from the stone- paved remains of a branch of the Roman road of Akeman Street, that once ran to the important Roman station of Ad Pontes nearby, or perhaps

The building in the centre of the picture was the former butter and fish market.

It was constructed on the opposite side of the canal to the New Level Furnaces and adjacent to the tracks of the recently opened Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton Railway.

The spire of St Nicholas's dominates the Market Place. In 1857 this Victorian church replaced an earlier church of St Nicholas, which dated from the 12th century - it had a tower.

It was already happening in the 1980s, when Royal Mail cleared the wharves on the south side of the river at Kingston and developed the largest mechanised letter office in the United Kingdom.

The smooth slopes of Skiddaw dominate the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

This offers a closer view of the southern end of the High Street.