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Historians believe that the Stour was a major attraction to the Romans when the future Emperor Vespasian chose Wimborne as the site for his base camp for the conquest of south-west England in AD45.

Taken just south of Neston, this photograph shows the view across the Dee estuary towards Wales. Even today, only forty years after this picture was taken, the estuary has become much more silted up.

Without doubt, Cheddar Gorge is the most spectacular natural phenomenon in South-west England.

Looking from South Street the general appearance of Victoria Road has changed little in the last 50 years.

South Devon Railway purchased the first Catholic Church of 1854 for £2000 after deciding to open the rail- way tunnels beneath it.

We have now passed through Stonebow into the southern part of the High Street, which grew up along the old Roman road south of the walled city.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

Fawley is home to the Esso oil refinery, which lies to the south of the parish; it started operating in 1951, and covers 3,000 acres.

Uppingham School had a sports ground to the south, known as the Middle; and another to the east known as the Upper.

The little village of Loose, pronounced 'Luse', is pleasantly situated on the little river of the same name just to the south of Maidstone.

Elvet Bridge was built by Bishop Hugh le Puiset in 1160 to give the peninsula direct road access to the south. It was repaired by Bishop Richard Fox between 1494 and 1501.

South Shields was not only a port with shipyards and ship repairers; it was also a colliery town, with a pit almost in the town centre.

Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath

The south transept is a survival from the medieval church, which was so drastically altered during the 19th century.

Railton Road runs from Brixton and today, at its south end, it continues to be a one-way street. It is unusual that many of the shops have not changed.

In this view we look past the Horse and Jockey pub towards the south of the village; the church is beyond the high tree on the left.

Though the shore to the south of Ramsey is rocky, a stroll along it at low tide was a popular Victorian way of taking some gentle exercise.

Much has changed hereabouts, and the dual-carriage- way southern bypass, Southway, is a mere 50 yards to the south.

This was the furthest the London & South Western Railway ever got from Waterloo: 256 miles.

The landscape is far more rugged, and the climate less mild; local writer Charles Kingsley described the weather as combining 'the soft warmth of south Devon with the bracing freshness of the Welsh mountains

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

In the 17th century, Lechlade was the venue for one of the largest cheese fairs in the south-west.

A grand south entrance was provided via these ornate wrought-iron gates crowned by the royal cypher and the jubilee date, 6 May 1935.

If there were coconut trees, you could well imagine this was a picture of a South Sea island. These colourful beach huts provide a place to change into swimwear or to have a welcome brew-up of tea.