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The flint and stone cottage, with its neatly clipped box hedge and the workshop of C Knight, the local builder and contractor, attached to its side, stands beside the footbridge and ford across the upper

Poole's Town Cellars, in the heart of Poole's mercantile district, are seen here on a busy day .

In common with the larger seaside resort of Scarborough, Saltburn has a cliff lift still operational to this day.

The church was designed by W Bassett Smith of London and built at a cost of £3,320; it was consecrated on 11 May 1869.

Even though only the ruins of the keep and the barbican remain, it is obvious how strong this fortress once was.

At this date, the old fashioned, rather cumbersome bathing machines were being replaced by bathing tents, the forerunners of the wooden huts which came later.

A crowd has gathered and awaits the start of a match at Exmouth's cricket ground, a few hundred yards from the sea front.

Uniquely for London bridges, the bascules of Tower Bridge can be raised or lowered to permit the passage of high-peaked vessels.

Crickhowell Castle lies twelve miles south-east of Brecon. Originally it was a timber stronghold of the motte and bailey, and belonged to the de Turberville family.

The clock tower, which is the only part of the station to survive, stands as a sad memento of this great building.

It was an inn known as The String of Horses; it now sits in the Avoncroft Museum of Buildings at Bromsgrove, having been removed in the 1960s to make way for a roundabout.

With the passage of time there are bound to be differences between this and the previous picture. Deacon's now occupy both floors of their building.

Looking like a refugee from Disney World, or something dreamed up by mad King Ludwig of Bavaria, the Shakespeare Memorial Building was erected in 1879.

Brownsea Island is delightfully situated at the heart of Poole Harbour; its castle was built to safeguard the entrance of that important naval anchorage.

Reed-thatched cottages abound in the pretty village of Wicken. Nearby Wicken Fen is virtually the only remaining piece of natural undrained Fenland left.

The early Tudor gateway of St John's College is richly decorated with the arms of its founder, Lady Margaret Beaufort.

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

Askern is seven miles north of Doncaster. For a few brief years in the early 19th century it was a spa; its strong sulphuretted medicinal waters were said to resemble those of Harrogate.

Some of the original buildings in Hungerford High Street were destroyed by several fires.

The seat of the medieval governance of the city, the Guildhall was built in 1407-13, but 1930s demolition in the market area has exposed the mainly Victorian south elevation to general view.

A further picture of the military hospital. The spartan nature of a hospital ward contrasts starkly with its palatial surroundings.

BY THE START OF the new millennium, Twickenham had evolved a long way from the idyllic Arcadian village of the 18th century with its elegant riverside mansions and villas set in sylvan grounds.

This pastoral scene suffers somewhat from the presence of a telegraph pole and its excessive number of wires.

This exotic architectural confection reminds us of the Pavilion at Brighton, with its oriental domes and minarets.