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Adeyfield, on 20 July 1952, the Adeyfield Neighbourhood Association organised a Jubilee Fair on 20 July 2002, on Reith Field.

As part of a commitment to education, the Wheatsheaf pub and King Edward VII School had to make way for a new College of Advanced Technology on Market Hill in 1957.

Quite often the whole of the Channel Fleet would exercise in the Irish Sea, and then have a three- or four-day visit to Liverpool.

Grindleton is a classic case of village development: here ancient roads cross, and ribbon building took place along those roads.

The village of Avebury, population 650, is best known for its impressive prehistoric stone circles, which were recently claimed to be the work of marmalade millionaire Keiller, rather than prehistoric

It dates from the 13th century and contains the Salisbury Chapel, built in 1618 to hold the tomb of Robert Cecil, first earl of Salisbury, at a cost of £460.

Bristol developed to become a major centre for the importation of timber for use throughout the west of England.

Watling Street, three miles south-west of Gravesend. It gained its name from a river passage that once reached it from the Thames at Northfleet.

St Paul's Square, also known as Market Place, is bounded on the west by the churchyard of St Paul.

The church stands on the site of an important regional Roman town known as Calleva Atrebatum.

Stone from the same quarry was used in the construction of the seafront at Scarborough.

The High Street was laid out in 1826 as New Road, but development off the hill was slow.

The Park was formally opened on 1 July 1937. It is remarkably little changed, apart from the line of tall Lombardy poplars which went in the 1990s and the removal of the hedges.

This view looking towards town captures well the flavour of interwar development along the Tring Road itself.

It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay lies just a few miles to the south of Whitby. Also known as Bay Town, the village became a favourite haunt for artists and holidaymakers alike.

Perhaps the chapel was built to house the relics of St Edward the Martyr, which were moved there from Shaftesbury.

As well as the River Hodder at the east of the village, it has Crossdale Brook running through it.

Horse-drawn carts stopped to collect sacks of flour to transport to Cookson's bakery and other places. Part of this mill's old machinery was transferred to the windmill at Wrea Green.

This timber-framed Tudor cottage originally occupied a site in Malden Road (now the Broadway) closer to the main crossroads, but it stood in the way of the eventual widening of the street.

It finally became the home of Mr John Bamford, eldest son of Captain Oswald Bamford, before its conversion again to a girls' secondary school in 1959.

Stile House is typical of the smarter villas of Regency Lyme. It takes its name from the adjacent Stile Path through the bushes (top left) from Pound Street to the Cobb.

East of Chiddingfold the lanes wind to Alfold, which lies close to the Sussex border.

Nork is a suburb that merges south into Burgh Heath in the large triangle between Reigate Road, Brighton Road and Fir Tree Road, the north boundary of Nork.