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The Cyclists Touring Club sign can be seen on the facade of the White Hart Commercial Hotel on the left of this photograph.

Middle Wallop is a village of at least twenty-six houses with a garage, a pub and an army airfield.

The church lies behind a huddle of dilapidated cottages lining the Nunney Brook; here, wool was washed during the busy years of the cloth trade. Today the cottages are all restored.

Started in June 1838 to accommodate the Liverpool Music Festival, which was held every four years and had become a very popular event, St George's Hall is one of the greatest buildings in England.

Villagers cut rushes growing by the River Wyre; rushes were made into rush lights or stored in readiness for the rush cart, which was led in procession twice a year for the strewing of fresh rushes in

The town had been keen to keep out of the National Park when it was created in 1954 as it perceived that this may restrict such development, whereas places like Lynton, Lynmouth and Porlock saw the

The house dates from 1591, and stands on the site of a pre-Norman manor held by Dodo, a royal forester under Edward the Confessor and from whom the village takes its name.

This is not so much a castle, more a country house; it was built for the first Earl of Lonsdale by Sir Robert Smirke in 1806-11.

In 1811 Sir Walter Scott purchased the Cartley Hole estate on the banks of the Tweed and changed its name to Abbotsford.

The Unicorn Hotel has long disappeared, but the timber building with the gable ends is still here - it is now a wine merchants, and parts of the shop have hardly changed with time.

The blurred images of the children in the foreground remind us of the long exposure times photographers needed in those days.

A rustic corner, with mossy thatch and a corrugated-iron porch lid, lies beside Loves Lane on the western slope of Hardown Hill.

A mill was recorded on this site in the Domesday survey of 1086, and underneath the buildings shown in this photograph are the footings of an earlier water-driven construction.

In 1782 the man-o-war 'Royal George' heeled over just offshore on a calm day.

Newport has always been an important trading town, and at the height of its fortunes carried goods such as timber, malt, wheat and flour.

'It is fitting that Balliol, the most progressive of our colleges, should have so large a proportion of its buildings modern', wrote Dr Wells in 1897.

This early Edwardian dusty street scene reminds me of a cowboy film! Close scrutiny of this picture shows us a hardware shop (left), Staffordshire House, established in 1849.

This rural scene of blossom trees is mostly a forgotten sight here today. The village has been eclipsed by 20th-century housing developments.

It remains a thriving thoroughfare of small shops that cater for the locals' needs to this day. On the right of the picture, behind the railings, are the town's stocks.

Tufa Cottage, on the Via Gellia road from Cromford to Bonsall, was constructed entirely from blocks of tufa, the stone deposited by lime-rich water in this limestone country.

A demure young Edwardian girl stands by the roadside by the Rose and Crown Tea Gardens in this hamlet on the steep Riddlesdown above Kenley.

An open-topped double-decker bus rumbles up the High Street on its way to Epsom and Redhill, with the conductor collecting fares from the passengers.

This view, taken in the direction of Stonehouse, shows some high street names that are still in business today. Stead and Simpson's and Oliver's now sell their shoes in New George Street.

Near to the village are the extensive grounds of Brockenhurst Park, the home of the Morant family until well into the last century.