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Yet it has been slipped in behind the frontage of the High Street without any disturbance.

Everyone in the village had a job on the estate, and everyone had a place in the village society. The Roman road from Ribchester to Ikley passes through Downham Park at the end of the village.

If we look northwards towards Crown Street along what is now called The Pavement, we see that the frontages of the shops have changed little over the past fifty or so years, although many

The chains in the minster library are attached to the fore end of the books, which therefore sit spine inwards on the shelves.

The Saracens Head Hotel has gone the way of many smaller town centre hotels; it is now converted to shops and offices, including the bookshop Ottakar’s.

The lighthouse stands on the north bank of Shoreham Harbour. There are good views of harbour activity from this point.

Sir Edmund Wright, sometime Lord Mayor of London, built this lovely Jacobean house.

As large as a cathedral and one of only two parish churches in England to have stone vaulting, St Mary's was built on a grand scale, thanks to the generosity of Bristol merchants.

A guide book for 1886 states that the village had no special feature of interest to the tourist, though its situation was pleasant and that the church with its stumpy spire was charmingly placed amid a

BBC and ITV aerials proliferate above the rooftops of Maltby.

Caroline, Princess of Wales, bathed in the sea here while staying at Emsworth in 1805, and the town had thoughts of becoming a royal watering place.

Over the rooftop of the bus is the statue of Queen Anne.

The business on the left is now Balfour newsagents and next to this is a fish and chip and wet fish shop. Beyond, the Greyhound is no longer there.

The bicycle was still a very important mode of transport when this photograph was taken. The brick-built buildings look as if they will last for another century at least.

This scattered village is situated in the heart of the Weald. It is an old centre with a 15th- century church, which has many fine treasures.

This street is mostly now pedestrianised, with a large variety of shops to suit all tastes. The architecture is interesting, including the Stock Exchange, and St George's Tron Church.

The neighbourhood by the quays is the historic heart of old Yarmouth. Here are the wharves where scores of vessels tied up to unload their catches.

A future awaits, but the closest sign here of modern styling is in the faired-in headlights of the Ford Prefect parked just behind the passing cyclist - a stately soul, basket ready for

The ever-changing coastline has very much dictated the fortunes of Aldeburgh, but one thing which has not changed is the activity of local fishermen, who park their boats on the shingle bank which runs

Founded around the year 1119 by Robert de Brus (Bruce), Second Lord of Skelton, Guisborough became very wealthy.

The quarry once belonged to Sir Benjamin Brodie, Royal surgeon to Queen Victoria and president of the Royal College of Surgeons.

This was a feature of the old village of Letchworth, but one which was brought into the master plan for the new garden city.

After the First World War, the former Market Place was congregated here around the 1835 brick clock tower, built on the site of a mediaeval chapel.

Set in the mining landscape of West Cornwall, this famous amphitheatre was fashioned from collapsed mine workings on the slopes of Carn Marth.