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High Street c1965 Post-war expansion of Cambridge pushed the suburbs into outlying villages.

The Napoleonic Wars meant that the wealthiest members of Regency society could no longer visit the Continent.

The tiny settlement of Bantham, with its passenger ferry and boat-houses, clings to the eastern bank of the Avon where the river makes one last sweeping curve before meeting the sea.

The village was formerly known as Wyrardisbury, and in medieval times was part of the Crown Lands of Windsor. Magna Carta Island, where the famous charter was signed in 1215, is nearby.

The Sessions House is just beyond it on the right. Now called King George's Hall, it is still one of the centres of entertainment in Blackburn.

The building was once in the centre of a much larger town, but coastal erosion saw much of Aldeburgh lost to the sea.

An architect-designed villa on the left has probably recently been built in this settlement, which is just north of Callington and at the terminus of the railway branch line from Plymouth.

Here we see pleasant examples of 18th- century domestic architecture, but it looks in need of some re pointing.

Romsey Road leads westward away from the city centre and towards the rolling downlands of Hampshire.

This photograph shows Bridge Street in the centre of Caversham, at the point where it crossed the Thames.

Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts. In the 12th century King John had a hunting lodge in the area.

The village shop (centre) does a good trade in cycle parts, but at certain times in the religious calendar, pilgrims arrive on foot from all over Europe.

The Coln runs alongside the village street, where ducks waddle along the tops of low stone walls and spotted trout nose their way through the waving waterweeds.

This is not the original house or even the location of the original house, which until the 1970s was situated behind the present building.

Running parallel to the south of the road, the Great Ouse meanders between the two towns, and Houghton took advantage of both road and waterborne trade.

By the 16th century the old river channel had become so blocked with sandbanks that the town burghers had to enlist the help of Dutch engineers to cut a new river mouth.

Most of the houses are positioned around the large green where there were once old archery butts. Just off the main through road, H Kemp, Stores and Post Office, is still trading.

Except in this enclave, it is difficult to imagine that Kingsbury did not originate in the 1930s as part of the engulfing suburban sea.

The thirty years since photograph 72307 (page 38-39) have left the Callis unchanged, but the area on the right of the photograph, which included the remains of the castle mound, has been levelled and developed

This street scene has not changed very much except for the names of the occupants.

Unlike the Stanhoe Hotel, the Clear View was typical of the small to medium-sized hotels that had been built on the former open spaces and lawns of the Georgian resort.

Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison was born on 16 January 1832, the eleventh child and tenth daughter of the rector of Hauxwell.

For a number of years the five acre site stood in splendid isolation with magnificent views of the sea across open fields which had formerly been Clacton's first golf course and was later to become

The aftermath of the recession left businesses striving to become more efficient.