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The town was fortunate to have a number of County Schools. The national school was attended by 200 boys and girls.

The massed ranks of the staff pose outside the post office, which opened in West Street after occupying several addresses in the High Street and Petworth Road.

Away from the bustle of the main Scarborough road lies the secluded village of Gristhorpe. Looking down the main street, we see the old post office (right), now two cottages.

A beam from the year of the Spanish Armada was found in the remains of the old church.

Robin Hood's Bay is now half the size of the original village - the centre section slid into the sea, taking with it the new road.

Behind this ancient market town, the Mendips rise steeply, while the long main street of Axbridge winds to and from the central market place.

This has been the home of the Bagot family since 1367, although the building we see here dates from between the 16th and the 19th century.

The Dudley Zoological Society was founded in 1935 to develop a zoo in the environs of Dudley Castle, and the Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) was engaged to design the buildings

To the right the ivy-clad house is now a shop, Tendring Garden, and of course now without the railings.

From Brook the route heads to Milford, formerly partially on the A3 London to Portsmouth road but now, mercifully, by-passed - but the traffic is still heavy.

Situated on the island between the river and the mill stream is the Cosenor's House, now mainly 18th- and 19th-century, but replacing a medieval building.

Abingdon's stone bridge was built by the Fraternity of the Holy Cross, a guild of town merchants and prominent citizens founded before 1416 and incorporated by royal charter in 1441.

There is a good range of Tudor and 17th-century timber- framed houses on the right, all with rendered fronts.

This view is from the Royal Victoria Hotel, formerly Swanage Manor, which was named for the overnight visit of Princess Victoria on 7-8 August 1833.

The Town Hall was built in 1826 on the site of the Exchange Inn, a property belonging to the Borough.

It was the production of soap and alkali that became the most important industry here resulting from the proximity of salt from Cheshire and coal from Lancashire.

Beyond the bus stop on the left-hand side is the Perrymount cinema, which also housed a dance hall and a café.

The town is named after the grange, or storage place for grain, belonging to the monks of Cartmel Priory.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures

In the hey- day of the woollen industry, shepherds and their families came from Wales to live here and tend sheep in the surrounding countryside.

The broad verges and continuous avenue of trees bring green, open space to the High Street and make it an attractive place to explore.

The village has been given a sweeping bypass, Broughton Way, on its north side, reducing the volume of traffic negotiating Main Street and the area around St Mary's Church and Old Mill

Brompton Barracks were built in 1804-06, originally for artillerymen, and became the headquarters of the Royal Engineers when the School of Military Engineering was founded there in 1812.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.