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It is no longer 'the sleepy old place of less than a thousand inhabitants that can boast to have seen better days' as noted by a guidebook writer of the 1890s.

There is no better way to start our visit to Gloucester than by the river, which leads into and by-passes the city quite dramatically.

A white-bearded old farmer, resplendent in smock and battered hat, poses with his granddaughter.

Today, however, the timber- framed buildings do look in a much better condition with fresh white paint over the brickwork.

One of Thomas Hardy's few forays into politics was to champion the cause of better treatment for rural workers.

From here six farm labourers were transported to Australia in 1834 for taking an illegal oath in their quest for union recognition and better wages and conditions.

There was also the Better Hole, opened after World War I, which became the Fort Cafe in 1937.

Harwell has a long and chequered history, but it is probably better known today because of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment that was established nearby in 1946.

Where better for Edwardian ladies to promenade than on Exmouth's Parade, the long walk above the sea wall?

In the churchyard can be found the graves of Herbert Asquith, Liberal Prime Minister from 1908 to 1916, and Eric Arthur Blair, who may be better known as the novelist George Orwell, whose works include

One 19th-century rector of Holy Trinity Church, the Rev Richard Peak, was better known for his exploits catching sea-trout on the Teign than he was for his sermons.

The working classes were very superstitious and, although wary of the gypsies, their curiosity would get the better of them and they would pay to buy the wares or have their palms read.

The demolition took place about five or six years ago, no one was quite sure when, but the one thing that was said positively was that the replacement is better!

Arthur Mee in his King's England series says about the church: 'It is naked and bare, and all the better for that'.

What better way to cool off on a hot summer's day than to have a paddle and splash in the River Cherwell, as these youngsters are doing?

Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.

There are fewer such gatherers these days, and the estuary is better known for bird watching than cockling.

Comprehensive 'bigger is better' education styles were adopted with enthusiasm, and Stopsley was one of the first High Schools built to accommodate the new programme.

When the second station was constructed, new openings had to be made in the walls to give better access, because it was just outside the city walls.

Situated on the edge of the Fens, Wilingham is a typical example of the 'shoreline' villages that prospered through their access to better grazing for their sheep.

Today, the place is still delightful, and has better roads.

His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten.

A famous resident was Gerald de Barri, born here in 1146; he is better known to us as Giraldus Cambrensis, chronicler, Archdeacon of St David's, and royal chaplain.

Church Street has about it an almost faded Dickensian air, in tune with a town whose better days appear to be past, which is a great pity.