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The base of the market cross is hidden by the stalls and the Victorian water pump. Ahead is the Tiger's Head and the Edwardian shoe shop of 1912.

Woodcote Park was commandeered by the War Office in 1915, and Humphreys of Knightsbridge were contracted to build not only huts but also a chapel and a splendid recreation room.

Note the small windows, dictated by the timber framing and thatched roofs of the cottages.

The Minster Crypt 1886 There are many fine tombs within the Minster, including that of Saint Ethelred, a brother of Alfred, who was killed by the Danes in 873.

The small huts are where you hired your boat from for a by-the-hour row round the bay.

By the mid-1890s, most Lancashire cotton towns enjoyed a full Wakes Week.

The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's church.

The commanding tower of the village parish church overlooks the quiet South Yorkshire village of Sprotbrough, now divorced from the neighbouring town of Doncaster by the busy A1M motorway.

Frith & Co captured this same view of Billingshurst sixteen years earlier in 1907, and apart from several trees growing by the side wall of the shop on the right, nothing seems to have changed in the

visitors to various on- site amenities, including the Warden's Office, the Providore (the shop) with its familiar Walls ice cream sign, and the First Aid and Hospital hut, easily identified by the

We are in London Road, with a mixture of transport passing, right by The Cricketer's Inn, which has now had some extensions added.

It was owned by the Benedictine abbey of nearby Pershore until the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. Notice the oil lamp standard in the foreground of this late Victorian photograph.

Broadway Tower is a 65 feet high folly built in the 18th century by the 6th Earl of Coventry. On a clear day, 13 counties can be seen from the Gothic battlements.

Attractive thatched and pantile-roofed houses line the street, the skyline softened by the mature trees on the left-hand side.

It is surrounded by the simple grey slate-gabled shops and houses which are so typical of a small Lake District town.

The picture was taken in the year in which the home was opened by the Prince of Wales. The house was built as a war memorial for the city and county, and provided 130 rooms.

The large colon- naded building is the Winter Villa, built by the Earl of Mount Edgecumbe for his wife, who found the winters at Mount Edgecumbe House a little too draughty.

It owes its continued existence to the patronage of Saxon kings and its later adoption by the Normans.

Hutton was put on the map by the coming of the York to Scarborough railway, which follows the course of the Derwent.

The church of St Lalluwy has a 13th-century tower; the needle spire was added by the 15th century, when the rest of the church was rebuilt.

The Royal Hotel is an impressive brick and stone building, designed by the virtually unknown architect Robert Chaplin in 1826; he employed a large porch of paired Greek Doric columns to impress those arriving

The sheep dog lies in the dust of the lane welcoming the brief respite from his labour, caused by the chance meeting with the Frith photographer.

Beer is famed for its quarries, which were worked by the Romans and have continued in use down the years. The stone was used extensively for the arcades of many Devon churches.

Salcombe was preserved from wholesale development because it was never reached by the railway. Kingsbridge, five miles to the north, was the closest the line ever penetrated.