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Four small children watch the photographer with interest as he immortalises this stretch of Wharf Road.

A beam from the year of the Spanish Armada was found in the remains of the old church.

proposed line from Redhill to Dorking was suggested in 1845. Parliamentary approval was given on 16 July 1846.

The George Hotel, top left, spans the entrance to the Market Arcade in Devonshire Street. It led into a covered market built between 1860 and 1866, a venue much used for meetings and entertainment.

Brecon stands at the confluence of the River Usk and the smaller Honddu. The town can be confusing for the visitor, as not only has it two rivers, but also two High Streets.

We are looking past John Carr's Green Bridge towards the magnificent castle - a true picture of medieval England.

At a first glance little seems to have changed since this view was photographed in 1898

This separation of St Andrew's Church from the Abbey of Leicester was to save its assets from seizure at the dissolution of the monasteries during the reign of Henry VIII — a fate suffered by both

There is little detailed evidence on the number of people living at Twickenham during the Middle Ages but the manor of Isleworth, including Twickenham, seems to have expanded slowly during this

St John's Bridge is on the left. The Avon Mill at this time was occupied by Hugh Dryden & Co Ltd, who sold antiques and works of art here until the late 1970s.

TO THE modern visitor, Mobberley appears to be strung out along Town Lane between Alderley and Knutsford, with at least three centres to the village.

The new building was occupied in the period leading up to the Great War by the Forbes family; Eileen Baillie recalls old Mrs E M Forbes 'lying on an elegant couch ... having her beautiful hair dressed

The well-known cricketer Maurice Tate went to school in Haywards Heath, and was at his sporting peak during the 1920s and 1930s, playing in Test matches both at home and abroad.

By that time, building work on William Leigh's plan for a grand mansion at nearby Woodchester Park had been under way for six years.

Performing daily at 3.30pm and 7.30pm were the Pier Pierrots.

After the Rothschilds sold the estate in 1917, a consortium of local councils bought 200 acres and opened it to the public in 1926.

The name of the 16th-century half-timbered Grantley Arms in the centre of the village reflects the former dominance of the family whose seat was at nearby Wonersh Park.

This 1890 bronze statue of General Gordon of Khartoum on camel-back was the work of E Onslow Ford, and commemorates his illustrious career. It was erected five years after the general's death.

Water has always featured large in this village at the southern end of the Churn.

There are two prominent buildings of quality in the village, firstly the 13th-century parish church of St Peter and St Paul, and Langham Old Hall with its date stone of 1665 built into the

This row of shops with their protective glass awnings was built in the grounds of Cleveley Lodge (the building at the far left end of the row) in the 1930s.

This building stands at the northern end of The Parade; it was built in 1926 on the site of a former coaching inn, the Pengwern Arms, which had to be demolished in 1885 following storm damage.

We are looking south along West Kirby's busy Promenade, with the marine lake to the right.

This view probably shows the fields and open ground at Lower Green, north of Ickleford and close to the Bedfordshire border.