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Bathpool is now very much a suburb of Taunton, with the spread of the Somerset town on one side and the M5 motorway on the other.

A posed photograph of one of the local weather-beaten characters in his fisherman's oilskins.

Piper Bank appears in the census returns of 1851 and on maps of Rossendale as a place name.

In 1913 the Council received an offer of land skirting Woodcote Hall from Lord Rosebery as 'proof of my deep and abiding affection for Epsom'.

The early period of its history has left a great deal of physical evidence in the street pattern as well as some buildings, while documentary references further flesh out the picture.

Boots the Chemists' library (behind us, at the corner of Market Street) was upstairs, approached by a wooden staircase.

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

It is not difficult to see why the grassy inner ward of this formidable castle became one of the picnic destinations of Rudolf Hess.

By this time, the two-mile-long concrete promenade at Felixstowe had been constructed, offering a pleasant walkway between the gardens of the hotels on the left and the shingle beach on the right of this

Chesil Beach, seen here from the Isle of Portland, is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.

The old coaching inn known as the Rainbow was one of the many which had run back from Kendal's main streets since the Middle Ages.

The focus of the town is the triangular medieval market place, with the best buildings on its south side: the Old Vicarage of 1805 with its Venetian ground floor windows, mansard roof and battlemented

In this view of the square, coaches are parked in the broad open expanse. The town consists of ten streets within the walls, which are defended by round towers, and around twenty outside.

We are standing at the corner of Lady Lane, looking east. It is a road of late Victorian houses with names like Pretoria Villas, Rebecca Place and Grasmere.

By the banks of the graceful River Wensum is the 15th-century gateway to the city's diminutive canal, which penetrates its way to the margins of the cathedral.

Inside is a splendid collection of a hundred portraits of members of great East Anglian families, which were bequeathed by the antiquary Prince Frederick Duleep Singh.

An exhibition of fine art was held in the grounds of Bootham Park Hospital in 1866.

On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

The low tower of Bentley church can just be seen against a curtain of trees in this photograph. The base of the tower is over 500 years old, while the top is more recent.

Ottery St Mary was the birthplace in 1772 of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, whose father was the vicar of St Mary's, one of the finest parish churches in the land.

The Gardens were part of a scheme to enhance Southport's image as a garden city.

For a long time even Lancashire was not safe from bands of Scottish raiding parties, and 'Dunkenhalgh' is said to derive from the name of one of the brigands who settled in the area.

The yacht is passing by the north side of the Broad, with 1930s bungalows along the frontage. The yacht is typical of those developed since the 1930s for use on the Broads.