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Construction of St John's Priory was begun about 1075-76 when the Bishop of Lichfield, Peter de Leia, transferred the seat of his diocese to Chester.

The Sunnyfield Estate originally comprised a large area of 'pleasure grounds and grass land' to the north of Westgate.

This fine terrace of houses is another indication of improved housing design and of the spread of St Ives onto the higher ground overlooking St Ives Bay.

The faces on the statues, probably the portraits of local inhabitants, were meticulously painted, despite the fact that the artists and sculptors knew they were not visible from below.

A branch of Stead and Simpson, a shoe shop, is on the right directly opposite Cash & Co, also a shoe shop. Below and to the right of St Mary's Church we can see the gable end of the Old Post Office.

Until the turn of the 20th century Basildon was just a collection of small villages.

Looming over the town is the tower of the town hall, clearly more than a little influenced in its design by its more prestigious neighbour at Leeds.

'Chepe' and 'stowe' combine to mean 'market place', which indicates the early origins of this town.

This view, showing the centre of Ewell village, was taken looking north towards the Horse Pond and Spring Corner, and includes several splendid examples of the motor vehicles of the period.

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

To the right of the picture is the foliage-covered Matrons' College, built in the 1680s as a refuge for the widows of priests who were ordained in the Salisbury dioceses.

Lack of major industrial development in Tewkesbury meant that the town retained much of its 17th- and 18th-century character and did not experience much of an explosion in its population.

The Palace, designed by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of

Holyhead is best known as the ferry port for Ireland, and stands on Holy Island, linked by a causeway to the Isle of Anglesey.

When Basil Spence designed the new cathedral, he incorporated the ruins of St Michael’s into the scheme of things: the old church in effect became the new cathedral’s vestibule.

Magdalene Almshouses (left), were rebuilt in 1877 on the site of a lazar-house or leper hospital, apparently founded by a member of the de Leyes or Legh family, in the early 13th century.

We have two items of interest in this picture: the archway, the Gannock Gate, and the Red Mount Chapel behind the trees on the left.

To the south-east of mediaeval Finchley, the High Road drops down from the North Circular Road between an almost standard series of parade shops built around the turn of the century, and past the Rex Cinema

The placename is derived from Haecc or gate. The village is on the north-west edge of Pinner Park, itself a 14th-century deer park owned by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Clifton House, which is now the local museum, dates from 1782 and is the work of John Carr of York, one of the country's outstanding architects of his day.

In this picture, the steeple of Rochester Cathedral seems to rise out of the castle keep in front of it, but it illustrates the strategic siting of the castle, overlooking the entire sweep of the approaches

Sandbanks is the long spit of land dividing Poole Harbour from the sea at the southwestern end of Bournemouth.

Part of the old Ramper Road, this end of Victoria Road passes the Congregational church where Mr W Gornall was a great supporter.

Of the priory buildings, only the mid 14th- century gatehouse survives, with the medieval market cross in front.