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The van (left) is coming out of Stanhope Avenue. Woodhall Spa is really a holiday town in the middle of Lincolnshire for people dedicated to golf.

Of the shops on the right, the Midland Bank is now, of course, HSBC.

Traditionally in the ownership of wealthy occupants, the private steps leading down to the beach still belong to these houses, except those on the extreme left.

This is the south quay of the harbour. The harbour was built between 1829 and 1834 from local and imported stone.

Amroth is a former coal mining village at the southerly end of the 186 mile-long Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

George Borrow, author of Wild Wales, stayed here in 1857.

At a time when railway engineers were convinced of the impossibility of constructing a rail link over Shap, Fleetwood was conceived in the 1830s to link trains from London with steamers to

At the time of this photograph, traffic was not excluded from this street. A delivery van stands beside the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe of Dickinson and Morris.

Towards the right we can see part of the Billingham Forum Theatre, and nearer is the round glass-enclosed staircase to the art gallery.

In the centre is a fish and chip saloon; to its right is the narrow wynd called The Bar, and on the railings is an advertisement for wet fish on sale in the basement of No 1 New Road.

Opened in 1853, Bellasis Park, as it was then called, was one of the earliest public parks in the north-east.

Situated in the 270-acre grounds of Cobtree Manor, an Elizabethan house alleged to be the original of Mr Wardell's Dingley Dell in 'Pickwick Papers', this formerly popular family attraction was noted for

The Old Cherry Tree Inn, one of two pubs in Great Houghton, is a cosy village hostelry with quaint beams and plenty of character.

With Laxton's motto 'God Grant Grace' below his heraldic shield adorning the buildings, the school expanded and since the 1950s has taken over a number of the older buildings in the centre of Oundle.

Our journey starts in the superb stone-built town of Oundle, nowadays a popular tourist destination and home to Oundle School.

The space in front of the shops is now a car park, and the traffic island has shrunk.

Old Sarum is a hillfort built by the people of the Iron Age, who came to Britain from around 500BC. Its spectacular ramparts and ditches enclosed their community.

Newmarket is the world's capital of horse racing. Here we see unsaddled horses being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

One of only three such bridges in the country, the transporter bridge connected Runcorn with Widnes on the north shore of the River Mersey.

The serious expression on the faces of the young men, one clad in plus fours, posing for their photograph on the summit cairn, suggests the effort involved.

Builth Wells is in 'the county of rivers', and the River Wye lazily winds its way around this old spa town. Mineral waters were first discovered at Builth in the 1700s.

Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, landing sufficient cod, mackerel and haddock for the North Eastern Railway to run three or four special fish trains a week.

A gas lamp stands in the middle of the square, where the market cross once stood. A pestle and mortar (still there) proclaims that Mackereth, late Mason, is a chemist's shop.

Cromer stands high and bracing on its breezy cliffs, from which stairs and zig-zag paths lead down to the sands. On undeveloped tastes Cromer would be thrown away.