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We see the war memorial just four years after its completion in honour of those from Poole who .

Much of this area is now submerged under the waters of Fernworthy reservoir, built in 1936-42 to supply Torquay.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

This is a peaceful village scene, with an inn on the far right of the wide road. Visitors come here to see the lovely 15th-century church of St Leonard.

The grand Regency façade of the Stamford Hotel looks rather out of place squeezed in among the other buildings of St Mary's Street.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

The splendid Norman tower of the Cathedral rises above the roofs of the county town, forming an important part of the city’s skyline.

The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.

This Anglican church was built at a cost of £3,000 in the early 1860s. Sir George Elliott, who funded most of the cost, held a sumptuous banquet to mark its opening.

Lying at the foot of wooded limestone slopes to the east of Cringlebarrow, these rendered stone cottages, with pronounced dripstones protecting their windows and doorways from the rain, are typical of

Fortunately, there is no traffic as the farmer herds his small herd of cows in the middle of the road at the bottom of Town Hill beside the Peterville Inn.

This lovely village is said to command one of the finest views in Kent across the Weald towards Ashdown Forest. It sits alongside the Surrey boundary, two miles north of Edenbridge.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

During the time leading up to the First World War (1914-18), a number of food shortages, popularly referred to as famines, hit Barrow-in-Furness.

The junction of Castle Street and Water Street, outside the Town Hall, has always been one of the busiest in Liverpool, and a natural meeting place.

Nearby, just into the High Street, there is another building of similar antiquity, the Tribunal.

The collection included paintings of the Spanish and Italian Schools, and the British were represented by artists such as Gainsborough.

The A47 Leicester-Uppingham road forms one side of the roughly triangular market place; although the photograph shows, in the main, modest cottages of 17th- and 18th-century date, more impressive houses

The central position of its parish church and the rectilinear layout of the town, which can still be traced today, are remnants of medieval planning.

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort

Stourbridge's great tragedy is its ring road, one of the most damaging examples of its type in existence.

The most striking feature of Holy Trinity church is its truncated spire, which was snipped in 1563 for fear of collapse.

We are high on the limestone White Peak plateau with this photograph of farm buildings and cottages in the hamlet of Small Dale, north of Peak Dale, to the north east of Buxton.

Meonstoke is one of those villages that has expanded and developed over the years to become part of a chain of local communities, including Brockbridge and Corhampton.