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The long main street of the town gives a feeling that this was a community grown up around a great highway.

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

Judging by the quantity of lines carried on the telegraph poles, it would appear that a number of telephones had been installed in the area.

Today with a reduced pond and an enlarged green, there exists an excellent cricket pitch, all of which remains in full view of the much larger pub and restaurant now named 'Le Toad and Stumps

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

If we remember that Bedfordshire was solidly on the side of the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War, it is surprising to find a number of references to King Charles's ability to hide himself

The sheer volume of boats in the South Bay is amazing. Most of them appear to be cobles, a traditional Yorkshire open boat easily identified by the square transom which has a reverse slope.

Post-war reconstruction and redevelopment of the Moor was just one of many schemes to rebuild the city. As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

The smart uniformed soldier stands silent guard outside this building, built in 1878 on the corner of Fishergate and Melbourne Street.

The Basingstoke Canal was opened in 1794, and stretches for a length of 37 miles from the River Wey to Basingstoke. Notice how the canal crosses in an aqueduct over the main railway line.

Of Queen's Park's 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers' cottage, a bandstand and a

The Gatehouse of the present Bindon Abbey, in the grounds of its mediaeval predecessor, was built by Thomas Weld between 1794 and 1798.

Only three years earlier, the 15th- century half-timbered 'island' in the middle of the street had been removed in a road-widening measure.

In medieval times, Clipped Hedge was supposedly the only building situated on Hatfield Heath itself. The Heath was an area of common land criss-crossed by roads.

They were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.

One of Newbury's most striking landmarks, the tower was completed in the 1880s. On the corner is a sign prohibiting the use of traction engines.

During the Civil War, the parish church of St Nicolas was occupied by the Parliamentary troops and used as a prison, a hospital, and a guard room.

Peel Park was somewhere Salfordians could go and seek refuge for a few hours from the noise, muck, and drudgery of day-to-day living.

Most of the right hand side has been rebuilt, but The Angel on the left survives (albeit with fake timber-framing), as does the tall twin-gabled building next to it of 1873.

This replaced William Tierney Clark's suspension bridge of 1827, a smaller version of which survives across the Thames at Marlow.

Looking north from roughly the same viewpoint on the south bank of the Thames, the Perpendicular Gothic parish church with its tall spire, one of Gloucestershire's fine 'wool' churches, dominates the view

Upstream from the lock at Sonning, the 18th-century bridge spans the river, and the recreational use of the water is plain to see.

The river flowing beneath the 15th-century bridge is the Darent, which rises near the county boundary with Surrey near Westerham and runs through a myriad of Kent villages to the Thames near Long-reach

This comparatively busy scene for the 1950s suggests that we are near a more substantial settlement here - Riverhead has now been absorbed by the sprawl of Sevenoaks.