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What eventually became of them is one of the city's enduring mysteries, though the stonework may have been used in the building of the parks rockery by Brunswick Place.

Calshot has long been popular with local people and holidaymakers for the views it affords of Southampton Water.This stretch of the Hampshire coastline is the perfect spot to watch all the comings

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.The building looks just the same now as it did in about 1960; nowadays, part of it is a dance and

This familiar parade of shops on the A4 was quite new when this photograph was taken. The scene is much busier today, with much more traffic and many more pedestrians.

There are now traffic islands in the middle of the road.

On the right, Mr Grover`s business of garden ornaments and fencing has now been replaced by lines of second-hand cars on the corner of Station Approach.

Standing at the head of the Eastern Valley, in an industrially ravaged landscape, Blaenavon was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000.

The Presbyterian church, whose towers are visible in the distance, was completed in 1869, although the building bears the date of 1863.

Within the last 25 years it had undergone remodelling under the supervision of Sir Arthur Blomfield.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

Following its dissolution in the 16th century, Lilleshall Abbey has become a ruin - its stones were used for the building of many houses in the area.

So many of our churches around the country were rebuilt during Victorian times, and Henbury's church is no exception. St Thomas's dates from the 1840s, and was designed by Richard Lane.

The rowing boat in front of the lighthouse seems almost as fully laden as the motor launch 'Britannia' in the foreground!

The bathing stage at the lake's eastern edge reminds us of how popular swimming once was. Up to 35,000 bathers per season made use of the supervised facility.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

This curious little extension to one of the town wall towers is even more interesting because of the modern and incongruous-looking brick wall that looks as if it has just been built.

The church of St Stephen is thought to date originally from the 7th century; it is certainly recorded in a taxation document of 1254 as the church of 'Bottewara'.

The gorge cuts its way out of the carboniferous limestone as if it was in the Peak District of Derbyshire; it is an underground cavern whose roof has collapsed, leaving soaring cliffs and crags of

As we look back up East Street, the focus of the view is the Market Hall.

This view of the Mill House, further north along the Buckinghamshire bank, captures wonderfully the curious formality of late Victorian leisure activity as the fishermen sit stiffly in

Beyond are workshops and outhouses, now all gone and replaced by 1970s blocks of three-storey flats.

Work on the construction of the viaduct began in 1894 and was completed in 1897, but owing to the collapse of one of its piers it was closed straight away.

The Twyn and its surrounding wall were built in the 1890s with money from the Barry Railway Company when they purchased a small piece of the common from the parish.

The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.