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At one time just under half of Surrey's settlements had at least one mill; by the 1830s there were 47 working mills in Surrey.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

There has probably been a formal market at Kingston since at least Saxon times; a series of charters have been granted by royalty since the 13th century, giving it official status.

The railway station at Twickenham was opened in 1848, and the shopping district quickly developed nearby; it was gradually being improved with new shops in the late Victorian and early Edwardian

Back on the A24 London to Worthing Road, and north of Capel, is Beare Green with the Duke's Head pub.

Looking North The Swindon and North Wilts Technical Institute building (now known as the College) is on the left.

The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach. Much of the sand has been derived from waste entering the bay from mines and china clay works inland.

Boscombe developed to the east of Bournemouth in mid-Victorian times, attracting the wealthy and fashionable including Sir Percy Florence Shelley, the son of the poet.

The Square and Cobb Gate at the seaward end of Broad Street, eastwards from Bell Cliff, with the line-up of parked cars including Rileys, a Hornet soft-top, Jowett, Standard and Austins.

With its pollarded lime trees and some charming half-timbered cottages spread along its length, the village High Street suffered for several decades from the heavy traffic which thundered along this stretch

Twickenham Museum Efforts to establish a museum for Twickenham stemmed from the creation of the Museum of Richmond.

The 100-foot high slender stone tower of the church of St Peter and St Paul domi- nates this village built on a hairpin bend.

This former fishing village, situated on the south coast of the Lleyn Peninsula, now hosts boats of a much more upmarket kind.

This is Main Road, and it is full of local limestone-built houses. Originally it was the Great North Road, and had numerous inns.

Education here probably started in 1135, when the Knights Hospitallers built their hospice on the site. Some of the material used in its construction dates from Roman times.

In 1922 the Vincentian Spanish fathers acquired a plot of land at Hillside in Barnet Road to provide a training facility for young priests to foreign missions.

It was at Stirling that both James II and James V were born and where Mary, Queen of Scots and James VI both lived for a number of years.

Studs on the road surface mark the only traffic crossing in Kettering at this date. On the right, Gordon Thoday, with branches throughout East Anglia, sold dress fabrics.

By the date this picture was taken, Doncaster had been a racing centre for nearly three hundred years and had been the home of the oldest classic race, the St Leger, since its first running in 1778

The last two views in Hailsham itself are of a timber-framed cottage on Hempstead Lane, once in the countryside but now firmly within the town's 20th-century expansion - this sweeps past the lane

The homes in the stone-built terrace (right) were once fitted with hand-looms, but the end cottage with the sign sold tyres at the time of the photograph.

The square-towered St Cuthbert's Church is not far from the large cricket ground, where a socket of a stone cross (marking one of the resting places of St Cuthbert when he was being carried to his final

The school, initially installed at Whitehall on Malden Road in the year of the Great Plague of 1665, moved to this site (now occupied by Tabor Court alongside the present by-pass) in 1719.