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Beside the delightful village pond stands the Day and Secondary School (right), a gift in 1876 of John Todd, owner of Swanland Hall.

The church of St Chad, with two bells hanging in its open belfry, stands a short distance down the lane opposite the Fenwick Arms.

This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church. There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.

This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church. There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.

This old wool town is situated north of Cheltenham in the deep valley of the River Isbourne.

The production of steel was reaching the end of its competitive life by the time of this photograph, and within a couple of decades the industry was to be transformed - and greatly reduced.

The late 15th-century half-timbered Chequers Inn, with its gabled frontage and a swinging sign said to have been put up in the reign of Elizabeth I, stands on the west side of this busy street.

Basically a colliery village, Measham owes a small debt to businessman John Wilkes (1732-1805), who built warehouses by the canal as a distribution outlet and manufactured his own oversized bricks

The White Lion, one of many public houses in the village, was called the Rose and Crown in 1766, when it formed part of a marriage settlement between Mary Field and John Smith of Hitchin.

The late 15th-century half-timbered Chequers Inn, with its gabled frontage and a swinging sign said to have been put up in the reign of Elizabeth I, stands on the west side of this busy street.

Chideock House on the left was, at this time, known as Myrtle Cottage, with a Mrs Bindloss as its inhabitant. Beyond are an obscured Bridge Cottage, By the Stream , and Apple Tree Thatch (centre).

The large shelter and the Jubilee fountain replaced the grand wrought iron gates of Torbay House as the focal point of Torbay Road.

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

The assembled staff pose outside a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients from London set up just outside the village of Ockley.

Passengers on a Douglas boat take in the sights, sounds and smells of Belfast Harbour.

It was in a house in Ferrers Avenue, as the new Eynesbury estate had been called, that quads were born to Walter and Doris Miles on 28 November 1935.

The shop on the left is Jarman's the photographers. It was designed by William Spanton in 1863 for his 'Repository of the Arts' and was owned by Harry and Oswald Jarman from 1901 to 1962.

In October 1964 the Russian MV 'Igarkales' caught fire while it was still half unloaded.

It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.

Not far from Chipping Norton, close to Long Compton, stands a Bronze Age circle of 77 stones, a group of Neolithic upright stones and the single, 8 feet tall King Stone shown here, which dates from the

Once the railway arrived in 1885, the manorial village of Scalby grew into a genteel Victorian suburb of Scarborough.

The canal never arrived in Daventry, though there were plans to do so.

These opposing views of the High Street are photographed at five year intervals.

Various schemes had been proposed to bring fresh water to London; it was around 1600 that Edmund Colthurst identified the springs at Chadwell and Amwell as an ideal source.