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Some of the buildings on the tip of Sandbanks are coastguard cottages.

Queen Victoria much admired the town of Dartmouth and its beautiful estuary, recording in her journal that '...the place is lovely, with its wooded rocks and church and castle at the entrance.

Ealing remains an attractive place to live and was, at the time this photograph was taken, a leading centre of the British film industry.

Knebworth was the home of the Lytton family since they bought the manor in 1492.

The war memorial, surmounted by the stag, which is the county symbol, stands at the junction of St Andrews Street and Fore Street.

'England expects every man to do his duty'- Nelson's immortal words adorn the side of this stone plinth upon which stands the original anchor of HMS 'Victory'.

Aveton Gifford (pronounced Auton, meaning the settlement on the Avon) stands at the head of the estuary.

The aim of the Royal Regatta was to boost the local economy and to provide entertainment. It was so successful that it was established in 1851 under the patronage of the Prince Consort.

On the outskirts of Chipping Norton lies the Victorian tweed mill, founded by the Bliss family in the 18th century for the manufacture of linsey woolseys, kersey webs, horse cloth, serges and tweeds.

On the extreme left is J F White's tobacconist's shop next door to the branch of Lloyds Bank, while across the road is the entrance to Cheam Station Approach, with the offices of Morgan, Baines & Clark's

At least the people of Newport were apparently exempt from the payment of tolls.

The pupils of the school line the railings looking at the man with the camera. Branston is just two miles south of Burton, and at one time belonged to Burton Abbey.

At the head of Silver Street stands the 15th century hexagonal Poultry Cross. There were once three other market crosses in Salisbury: Barnwell, Cheese and Wool.

Nestling deep in a wooded valley, the tranquillity of this view is a world away from the busy A287 that runs through here today.

Until the 1960s, Winchester's pupils led a Spartan existence, bathing every day in cold water in tin baths; perhaps this helped generations of schoolboys to face the rigours of life outside and

A closer view of the entrance to the Hall. The designer, John Carr, later went on to be the architect of the magnificent Harewood House.

Before the days of a piped water supply, the well to the left would be the focus of a village life well known to the little boy standing at the doorway just beyond it.

This is the headquarters of British Rail Eastern Region, situated in Station Road.When this photograph was taken, the building had just been completed.

The tree we see here in front of St Andrew's church was an elm that suffered from Dutch elm disease in the 1960s and had to be cut down.

Tibberton is situated to the north-east of Worcester on the line of the Birmingham to Worcester Canal.

By the end of the 17th century it had been rapidly developed by the building of shops, taverns, hotels and houses as the town flourished as a fashionable spa resort.

This building is now slightly shorter, and has been restored as a single cottage rather than the row of up to four dwellings pictured here.

Here we are given a fine view of some of the Marine Parade guest houses, including the Granby and Ocean Spray. The Empire cinema (centre) is showing the film 'Tycoon.'

Esthwaite Water, near Hawkshead, is surrounded by comparatively gentle countryside, typical of the soft Silurian landscape of the southern Lakeland fringe.