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A view of Borough Hall, Bride Street. This is a rather dull building built by J H Norris, the Borough Surveyor, in 1906.

A fine view of an early motorised 'bus, heading through Earlswood on its way to Horley, just after the First World War.

This was once a familiar sight in the farming lands of Surrey: great horses slowly pacing across the autumnal landscape with the ploughman gripping the handles to plough a straight furrow, turning the

To its right Barn Hill climbs gently north-west, a street of almost unspoilt Georgian houses.

The village of Little Ann merges with Abbotts Ann so that the two virtually form one community. The fencing on the right has been replaced by a hedgerow, and the third cottage in the row is now tiled.

This picture is taken from near St Catherine's Castle, built in 1538 by Thomas Treffry on orders from Henry VIII.

Once a village, Chandlers Ford has now been swallowed up by the suburbs of nearby Southampton and Eastleigh.

Out of town shopping and subsequently deserted high streets were still some way off in the future.

A nine-sided tower of white brick, the High Lighthouse is Harwich's most striking feature.

It was under Dr Thomas Arnold, who was headmaster from 1828 to 1842, that the face of the English public school was to change.

The Post Office and stores, now painted white, is still a lifeline in this village south-west of St Austell.

The church of St James in Stanstead Abbots contains a monument to Sir Felix Booth (1775-1850); in 1829 he set out in the 'Endeavour' to find the North-West Passage, but discovered instead

At Cheesewring, a mile or two from St Cleer, there are dozens of mysterious stone monuments on the moor. They include megalithic stone circles, standing stones and old Celtic carved crosses.

This view looks towards Park Street, and the cottages on the left are still there.

It was during this time that most of the wooden cottages and shops along Beach Road became the concrete amusements and shops we know today.

The lake provides a focal point for Batchley Estate, and has acquired a fringe of vegetation since 1955.

Paley and Austin of Lancaster were the architects. The church has three fonts.

In contrast to the impressively wide and well-built promenades to be seen in Llandudno and elsewhere, the fallen rubble wall on the left here and the submerged groynes give the impression

The castle has been owned by the Earls of Powys since the early 1800s, and they have always opened it to the public. The sign on the door announces that admission will cost 6d (or 2½ new pence!).

Apart from the building at the end of the street, which has been replaced by an award-winning 1960s monstrosity, all these buildings are still there.

Two years before this photograph was taken, Reading Corporation was persuaded that Prospect Park should be bought 'for the benefit of weary workers who, when at rest, need some open space where communion

The lake provides a focal point for Batchley Estate, and has acquired a fringe of vegetation since 1955.

On the corner of East Street two women talk to each other outside the bespoke tailors E Abington & Sons Ltd.

The cottages were built in the 1820s for retired workers on the Acland family's Holnicote Estate. They were medieval farmhouses, remodelled to the fashionable designs of John Nash.