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By the late 17th century it was a prosperous market town.

By the late 17th century it was a prosperous market town.

It was paid for by the Craster family and built between 1906 and 1910 as a memorial to a member of the family, who appears to have died in Tibet.

When this picture was taken, the two had amalgamated and, in turn, had been taken over by the Great Western Railway. This is the entrance to Brynich Lock on the edge of Brecon.

However, the white smock windmill, built in 1869 by the Ashford millwright J Hill, still rises over the village roofs, and is of course now preserved.

Sherborne Castle was built on the site of the Saxon Bishops' Palace by the Norman warlord Roger of Caen. It has had many owners, including Sir Walter Raleigh.

developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that many Londoners came on country outings to Chigwell, either by bus or by the

It is owned by the lord of the manor.

The 17th-century Old Market House at Winster was the first property to be acquired, in 1906, in the Peak District by the National Trust.

Judging by the sign (extreme left), it was hoped that the tea garden would bring in the customers.

Much of the Long Mynd is now managed by the National Trust.

The building that was originally the Railway Tavern is hidden by the tall tree on the right. Its mock-Tudor successor can be seen to the left.

The Diocesan Teacher Training College at Hockerill was started by the Rev Menet and the Rev Rhodes in 1852.

The swords on the county coat of arms are seaxes, the short swords or sword knives used by the Saxons, which may in fact have been straight rather than curved. The cutting edges face upwards.

When this picture was taken in the Victorian era, Cowley was a large village gradually being swallowed up by the suburbs of Oxford.

A horse-tram belonging to the Leamington & Warwick Tramway Co trundles by the parish church of All Saints. The church was built in the French-Gothic style between 1843-1869.

The green, on the far side of the village from the church and overlooked by the village school, is now enclosed with a low wooden fence.

Its advertisement boasted patronage by '...the Prince of Wales, King of the Belgians, the Empress Eugenie...and all the most distinguished personages visiting Bournemouth'.

By the 1950s the first high rise hotels had appeared; also, Bournemouth's old trams had given way to trolley-buses, hence the overhead lines.

At the top of the street, Church Road was already bisected by the arterial road to Southend.

Chesapeake Mill dates back to 1820 and was built by John Prior, a miller, partly of woodwork from an American warship of that name, captured by the much smaller British HMS 'Shannon' off Boston Harbour

At the Reformation the Church's mines were confiscated by the Crown, who then offered them on 99-year leases to Newcastle merchants.

When this photograph was taken, they were three discreet villages, overlooking the great naval base in one direction and being overlooked by the convict prison from the other.

By the 1950s Lulworth had become one of the most popular day excursions on the south coast, with cars and coaches jamming its narrow lanes.