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Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

The Old Rose and Crown is near the bottom of Rose Hill, a former Roman road which later formed part of the Birmingham- Bristol road; it became a toll road in 1726.

In August 1543 two treaties were ratified at Holyrood for the marriage of the infant Queen Mary to Henry VIII's son Edward.

Its core collection, gathered together by Philpot's sisters at their home in Silver Street, was moved down the hill in stages, but the Philpot Museum did not open to the general public until

The Old Rose and Crown is near the bottom of Rose Hill, a former Roman road which later formed part of the Birmingham-Bristol road; it became a toll road in 1726.

There is no church in the village, the nearest being at Salehurst. An iron-smelting furnace, controlled by the Churchill family, made cannon in 1754.

The clay cliffs at Southend have always been prone to slipping. Frequently, over the years, notices have been erected closing the threatened areas.

Three hundred years ago, Bothwell was a strategically important village, its bridge being the only one over the Clyde apart from Glasgow Bridge.

Cleanliness in the 12th and 13th centuries was certainly next to Godliness.The Cistercians, like the Knights Templar, were not noted for their standards of personal hygiene and rarely washed.

Now a tree-clad hilltop fort, this is another example of the many forts built by the Iron Age people. To date it has never been excavated.

These women players are at a considerable disadvantage with their long, billowing dresses and broad-brimmed headgear.

Following its destruction during the rising of 1287, Oystermouth was rebuilt as a courtyard castle. At one end was a three-storey gatehouse whose top floor was occupied by a large chapel.

At the top of Angel Hill is the Angel Inn, an early 19th- century building. It was once a stop where coaches and travellers changed horses before the descent into Sutton.

The spectacular rock formation of Filey Brigg at the north end of the bay.

A lot of London companies relocated, such as Cossor's - they made cathode ray tubes and radar screens, essential elements in the war effort.

This photograph shows a de-rigged Manx nobby at Port St Mary.

For us today, with water spurting from taps in sinks, basins and baths, it is hard to imagine the time and labour that used to be involved in collecting and fetching water.

The River Ribble in summer is the most pleasant of rivers, and to picnic and paddle by its banks has been a delight for many centuries.

The village (the name means 'the dwelling by the bow of the river') has two greens; because it was all part of the Pudsay estate, there was no pressure to expand or to pull down and rebuild.

It was planned that around St George's Hall there would be unbuilt areas so as to show off the Hall, the grandest of the civic buildings.

The fourth tour starts in Worksop, the largest town in north Nottinghamshire, often seen as the gateway to the Dukeries.

By 1965 the docks at Birkenhead were in severe decline, as we can see from the sparse shipping in these views.

This Grade II* listed building is a former coaching inn with its own stabling and brew house at the rear.

Standing on the bank of the Great Ouse about a mile from the centre of Kempston, the parish church is a stone building wherein the tower, at least, is Norman in origin.