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A thatched farmhouse in the New Forest - an unlikely setting for a ranch dedicated to the memory and horse-riding style of the Wild West.

Built between 1772 and 1778, the three-arched Prebend's Bridge replaced a mid 16th-century footbridge that had been washed away during the floods of 1771.

In the process he appears to have gained the attention of a small group of admirers.

Cattistock is well known as a centre for foxhunting - the local pack is one of the best-supported in England.

To the left is a better view of the old school in the churchyard. The tip of the church spire looks as if it has been repaired recently.

In February 1953 the Promenade was buried under thousands of tons of shingle, and the roads blocked by smashed boats.

The decorative brick house on the right is worth a second look. Groups of children, probably from St Wilfred's school at the bottom, occupy the street.

Until about 1800, most of the houses would have had only two stories. Visitors to the town would have stayed in one of the few inns, such as The Black Lion on the right.

This area is now the site of a bus station. Corn and Butler is presently the Tourist Information Centre.

Here we see the obelisk and twin colonnades of the town's war memorial in the year it was consecrated.

A Roman villa was unearthed at Carisbrooke in 1859 and found to cover an area of some 120 feet by 55 feet.

For centuries a strong tide has swept up Wootton Creek to work the ancient mill - one of the very few tidally- powered mills in the world.

The Market Place contains an interesting architectural mixture of Tudor, Georgian and Victorian buildings. St Mary's Church has a fine knapped-flint chancel.

The City of Plymouth has given its name to some forty other Plymouths around the English-speaking world.

The coves around Dawlish and Teignmouth were used extensively by smugglers until Isambard Kingdom Brunel built his atmospheric railway line and the accompanying cliff tunnels in the first half of the 19th

The sea wall leads to the Parson and Clerk rocks, with the railway - surely one of the loveliest stretches of line in the country - running alongside.

The grace of the pier is matched by the best dresses and suits of the promenaders.

A battalion of the Black Watch parade on the castle esplanade.

The oldest parish church in Edinburgh, St Giles's was erected in the early 12th century on the site of an older building.

The hospital was erected and endowed for the maintenance and education of up to 300 children, of whom 100 had speech and/or hearing difficulties.

The west front is at the end of a very long fourteen-bay nave.

Above the doorway of the shop on the right is the famous logo of 'His Master's Voice' - the gramophone had become a fashionable gadget in every home.

Even in wartime the strict dress code for Weymouth beach remained, though many of the soldiers and sailors stationed in the town would seek out lonely coves in the vicinity for a spot of

This modern replica of an Irish round tower was built in 1869 to mark the tomb of Daniel O'Connell in Glasnevin Cemetery.