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The King's Gate was the entrance to the inner or lower bailey. This side of the castle was defended by a moat; there was once a drawbridge where the steps and stone bridge appear in this picture.

Bradpole is Bridport's northern parish and suburb, and here we are looking along Middle Street towards the 1863-built spire of Holy Trinity Church (skyline, left of centre).

Remote parts of Dorset were not connected to mains water until the 1960s.

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

The post office, that, in about 1910, replaced Mrs Crowley's premises, was in the style of Queen Anne. It is on the right with the modillioned cornice and pediment.

Ten years has made a tremendous difference in the appearance of both street and market day. The stalls are more tidy and professional in the goods on display.

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).

This peaceful village to the south of Marlborough is one long street retaining many old cottages.

By 1796 the Grand Junction Canal passed through Rickmansworth on its way from Brentford on the Thames to Braunston.

An attractive corner of medieval Sithestan (1254). The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

The hotel's old name was the Dumpling Inn because of the annual custom of eating dumplings in broth.

This post office was built in 1900 on land belonging to the Betchworth Park Estate, and was designed to deal with the business of three villages, Betchworth, Brockham and Buckland, including sorting and

Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.

The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

On the left we can see a line of old-fashioned telegraph poles. Not all post offices in the Fylde had a telegraph office early in the 20th century, nor could they deal with postal orders.

The only original components left of this ancient barn are its oak cruck supports.

popularity; this led to the establishment of the Kentish hop gardens, mainly in a triangle formed by Maidstone, Tonbridge and Tenterden but with others around Sittingbourne and Canterbury.

Similar to others in almost every suburb, the Prince of Wales continues the theme, offering safe and comfortable drinking to new suburban man; a competently-designed exterior opens into a timbered bar

Lighters, such as the ones we see moored here in the foreground, were the workhorses on the Gloucester to Sharpness canal, which when it opened in 1827 was the longest in Britain.

This is red brick village Leicestershire at its best: nothing ostentatious in either the well- designed row of cottages (right) terminated by the Three Horseshoes pub, small and welcoming,

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

South of the town, beyond the modern A57 by-pass, accessed via a long avenue from the Netherton Road, is Worksop College.

It was delightfully but fancifully described by the 17th-century historian Habington as 'invironed with highe and mighty trees and able to terrifye a far-off ignorant enimy with a deceitful showe of an