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Some of the models in this picture display surprisingly sophisticated detail in sails and rigging.

Note the smoke stack of a paddle steamer tied to the Lighthouse Pier.

This shows a bury day at the market, note the people to the front of the crowd are posing for the photographer.

Built in the Scottish Baronial style, at a cost of £400,000, the infirmary was dealing with 8,000 patients a year by 1900.

It was originally the nave of the abbey founded in 1128 by David I.

Saxmundham saw a good deal of change when the railway arrived in the 19th century. The Bell Hotel was built in 1842.

Closely-packed village houses built almost entirely of slate enclose a small cobbled courtyard. The youngest to oldest inhabitants are represented here.

The village lies along the line of Fleam Dyke, an ancient defensive earthwork.

Immediately above this viewpoint is part of the 14th-century roof that once covered the chancel.

It is on the site of the southern gateway of the Roman colonia. This area is now pedestrianised, and has greatly changed.

It is on the site of the southern gateway of the Roman colonia. This area is now pedestrianised, and has greatly changed.

The early 16th-century Queen's Armes is described by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as 'an unusually complete example of a small late medieval house'.

The Quethiock cross is a fine and typical example of a tall freestanding Cornish Celtic cross with a plain shaft and a wheel-headed cross.

A group of ladies stand outside Heseltine's shop, apparently posing for the photographer!

The corner of the window has a mirror in it, and the photographer and his tripod are just visible in the reflection - the photographer, photographed.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, Thirsk was one of the posting stations serving the Great North Road; The Fleece was the main coaching inn.

Some are quite tiny, while this example is one of the more spectacular ones.

South from Aysgarth we travel over the hills to the source of the Wharfe, and nestling below Buckden Pike we find this charming little village.

This view through Westgate's archway would have been glimpsed by generations of early travellers. Properly garrisoned medieval cities could sustain lengthy sieges by marauding armies.

Overdressed holidaymakers in sun hats enjoy the sands in this view from Great Western Beach towards the Atlantic Hotel on the headland of the Beacon.

There were once various mills situated on the river at Loose. Note the laden waggons in the foreground, redolent of a long-vanished rural scene.

Rugby was originally a hamlet within the parish of Clifton-on-Dunsmore; but by the time the Domesday Book was compiled, it was treated separately.

It is a modest example of a common enough style, with vaguely Corbusier elements. This shot was taken shortly before the first residents moved in.

The Quethiock cross is a fine and typical example of a tall freestanding Cornish Celtic cross with a plain shaft and a wheel-headed cross.