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This corner of Eastleigh has changed significantly: the new buildings interposed with the older ones on the left-hand side of the street offer a rich mix of architectural styles.

A police officer keeps a close eye on traffic at the foot of Preston Street, with the International Stores displaying its selection of groceries in its corner window, and the printers and stationer's shop

The top of the tower of this 13th-century church is five hundred feet above sea level, and was used as a lookout point in both world wars. An earlier medieval tower was destroyed in a storm in 1637.

Astride the A2, the old market town of Sittingbourne was an important staging point on the medieval pilgrims' route to Canterbury and, later on, in the coaching era.

The parish church is of flint, with a large west tower.

The parish church of St Mary is here seen under scaffolding. The tower is 15th-century, but most of the remainder of the building was rebuilt in the 1850s.

Traditional Norfolk cottages with thatched roofs and flint walls are built on the edge of a large village green: this kind of green-edge or common-edge settlement is characteristic of Norfolk.

A medieval 15th-century cross, two 17th-century houses with contrasting architectural styles and the church of St Andrew have all been captured in this delightful photograph.

Here we can see a portion of the gardens of Bank House in the days before they became accessible to the public. Note the thatched summerhouse.

Of the two pubs shown here, The New Red Lion (centre) survives. The Bell Inn (left) is now a private house. The retaining wall on the right was part of Chalford Station yard.

The western suburbs of Bridgwater grew in the late 19th century to incorporate the village of Wembdon, whose church was at the far east end of the village. In 1906 it looks remarkably rural.

Theories abound on the origin of the name, including a derivation from the knickerbockers worn by the navvies who built the railway.

For his defence of Ogmore Castle against the Welsh, Arnold de Boteler was awarded the manor of Dunraven by William de Londres.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

This view shows the widest area of the market place, where most of the livestock was sold up to 1907.

The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

In a city full of medieval gems, the Hall of John Halle stands out as an extraordinary curiosity.

From the 1500s a Reader was appointed to take on the duties of a present-day curate for the church, and in the 18th century the Reader occupied this building.

Very close to Junction 19 on the M1 motorway, the village is unremarkable.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, but it fell into decline with the development of steam trawlers, which tended

The Queen's Head c1955 In the early 19th century the Border town of Rothbury enjoyed a reputation as a health resort, where during the summer season visitors could 'drink goat's whey and enjoy

The Druids’ Altar is a naturally large millstone grit formation on the edge of, and overlooking, the Aire valley conurbation, with Bradford to the east and to the west the eastern end of the Yorkshire

It is a post-type windmill where the body is turned to the wind by means of a long tail- pole.The front and sides of the mill body and the roundhouse roof are clad in sheet iron.