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Many of the sea stacks and islands at Bedruthan have names, and Queen Bess is the best known of them. It may be said that the upper part shows a remarkable likeness to the profile of Queen Victoria.

People are not too busy to stand in the road for a gossip. The men on the left are looking at a dog, probably a young lurcher.

At this time the annual event known as Walking Day was still practiced. Every year, children from the town's churches, chapels, and Sunday schools dressed in white and paraded through the streets.

Today, the house at the bottom left corner is no more, and the grass is kept in bowling-green condition by the resident lock keeper.

Also situated north of the town and at one time also called the Lions' Den, these sandstone caves were once a feature of The Plot, an area of common grazing land.

Our photographer is standing on the bridge we saw in No 33415. Barnstaple's premier hotel - The Imperial - is on the left, still in business today.

In October 1644, during the Civil War, Cromwell's men camped in the fields surrounding the village of Chieveley before doing battle at Newbury the following day.

Built in 1883-84, St Paul's Church sits just beside Widnes's library and former Technical College.

Ware is packed full of interesting buildings and streets, but nothing it has to offer surpasses Amwell End.

He had been arrested in France during the Revolution, but escaped and spent three years in Liverpool before coming to Ormskirk.

This pastoral scene includes the impressive Malmesbury Abbey on the skyline and abbey House, partly hidden behind the trees.

The last Scottish national parliament was held here in 1646.Oliver Cromwell lived at the palace for several months following the Battle of Dunbar in September 1650.

Cattle seek the cool waters of the River Teme. After its journey through Wales, the river meanders through Shropshire and Worcestershire before joining the River Severn at Worcester.

Horse-drawn coaches wait patiently to take passengers from the boats at Waterhead, near Ambleside on Windermere.

The scene here has hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken more than one hundred years ago.

This sea-port at the mouth of the Nedd derived its importance from its docks and from its steel and iron works.

On the left are the Abbey fields, at the end of which stands the late 13th-century church of St Nicholas. Nearby are the ruins of Kenilworth Abbey, founded and endowed by Geoffrey de Clinton in 1122.

A large barge bound for the Humber makes its stately way down the Stainforth and Keadby Canal at Thorne.

The site is quite near the part of the River Stort that had been used for swimming lessons and galas by local schools for at least one hundred years.

The 775 employees at Wolverton Works in 1851 grew to 2,000 by 1860, with the LNWR the largest single employer in North Bucks; a company engine driver earned nearly four times as much as an agricultural

Thatched roofs predominate in this turn-of-the-century view of Madingley.

Paignton's harbour is an extension of a simple early shelter for shipping. Though not as protected as the harbour at Brixham, it maintained a fishing fleet for several centuries.

Topsham, at the head of the Exe estuary, became a seaport of considerable importance in the Middle Ages.

Athelhampton Hall is one of two grand houses near to the village of Puddletown, both lived in at various times by members of the Martyn family.