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What wonderful examples of 1950s fashion are being sported by the middle-aged couple, right.

Sitting lofty and proud on the road to the famous dockyard, this majestic building, built in 1900, was once the centre of the town's administration until it moved to Strood during an amalgamation of Medway

In front of Broadgate's post-war development is a statue of Lady Godiva, still notorious for nudity after 1,000 years.

Behind the tree on the left is the church of St George, built during the reign of Queen Victoria.

St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town. It has a fine Perpendicular-style tower with chequer-work battlements and elegant corner pinnacles.

One of the three main rivers which drain the Broads, the Bure is typically slow-flowing; a large number of cruising boats from Collins & Son (in the background) confine their cruising to the River Bure

The church is unusual because the slope of the ground down to Puddingmore meant that the tower had to be built on firmer ground to the south-east of the building.

The post office, run by Robert Farrant, is on the left next to Strickland Cottage (is there a link with the author Agnes Strickland of Reydon?).

The Tudor houses have been subdivided to provide houses for the poorer members of the village. The children have just come out of the National School.

This village is often called 'the Garden of Suffolk', something promoted by the local chemists Cleghorn and Owen, who produced the 'Garden of Suffolk Bouquet'.

The post office on the corner has advertisements for the Doric Cinema, Newmarket. The post office and its sign have now been transferred to the second terrace house.

The gable end is part of a 15th-century Wealden house. The stone was brought here from Somerton in 1713 on a sledge pulled by 45 horses to commemorate the Treaty of Utrecht.

The mellow gritstone walls of the Peacock Hotel, on the A6 about four miles north of Matlock, are a landmark to visitors coming into the Peak District from the south.

The war memorial in the heart of Rutland Square is today surrounded by more extensive flowerbeds, but otherwise this scene from nearly half a century ago is little changed.

Down Briar Hill on the road from Glaisdale we come to the delights of Danby. The wide, open green provides space for visitors.

Cars and buses are no longer allowed to park among the weird and wonderful gritstone formations of Brimham Rocks, near Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, as they were when this photograph was taken.

Apart from the demolition of the late 18th-century house, in the centre, little has changed visually.

The Kingsbury pool was large by municipal standards, and it was situated on the edge of Roe Green Park.

The 1st Eastern General Hospital was set up in Nevile's Court in Trinity College at the beginning of World War 1, with beds placed around the cloisters.

Oving Road leads west uphill from the north end of the High Street - the architectural quality does not fall off.

The road on the right, Vaughan Road, now leads into an estate with a number of new houses.

The building on the left is the Old Jack Inn. It was once the tradition here that any traveller passing by could drink his fill for just one penny from a large leather flagon.

Often when we see buildings of this type we automatically refer to them as Tudor (that is, 16th-century).

This was half a mile south of Litton Cheney towards the White Horse Inn, which was kept by Henry Watts Greening for half a century.