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South Cerney has some delightful street names, such as Bow Wow, close by the Old George Inn, and Upper Up, which now adjoins the village proper, but a reminder of the days when it was an outlying farming

These cottages stand at the top of Pack Hill, near its junction with Church Road and Mayfield, in Upper Wanborough. The Cottage Shop was once a shoemaker's premises.

It once had some fine painted decoration on the interior walls - an example survives in an attic room. The house became the home of the Unionist Club in 1913.

It runs parallel with the Esplanade, and holidaymakers swell the numbers of shoppers in the summer.

The town is said to derive its name from 'beau lieu', or beautiful place. At the beginning of the 20th century, Bewdley's population stood at about 2800.

The illuminated Bovril sign was an integral part of the city centre scene for well over a decade.

There are a surprising number and variety of shops for such a small village, reflecting the need to cater not only for local inhabitants but also for campers and caravanners on the cliffs between the village

It would be hard to find such a peaceful rural scene as this amongst the suburbs of present-day Bournemouth.

This is one part of Redditch which has not greatly changed, although the traffic is a great deal heavier now.

building of 1789; it was so badly damaged by fire in 1908 that it had to be demolished.

The beach is still a popular area, but now the coast road with its traffic runs in front of the sycamore tree on the left.

The amenities now included a concert pavilion (at the pier head on the left), a bank kiosk and a Moorish pavilion (in the centre of the picture).

Built as the Pier Hotel in 1891, the Metropole stood at the landward end of the jetty.

Continuing along the road, we come to the turn-off which leads to the NRA on the left, now called Queens Road. The main road leads back to Bagshot.

This photograph was taken from Lambeth Bridge, and shows the Houses of Parliament before Victoria Tower Gardens were laid out on Millbank.

Boscombe developed to the east of Bournemouth in mid-Victorian times, attracting the wealthy and fashionable.

Looking towards Chapel Street from Cheapside, we see a variety of building styles.

The main road from Poole to Bournemouth was called Parkstone Hill until the 1890s, when a castellated house called The Castle was built on high ground near the top.

Here we see a corner in the old part of the fishing village, with a Victorian granite house added on the right. Flower pots are all around the upper bay window ledge.

A great deal of building took place during the years that followed; the population increased three-fold during Queen Victoria's reign.

The Doric column on the right is a monument to William Wilberforce, who was born in Hull, and was responsible for the abolition of slavery throughout the Empire.

It has lots of different bright materials and extravagantly overscaled carved detail, such as the gigantic capitals dwarfing their columns.

Nearby is the site of a Knights Templar hospice founded in 1274.

A lifeboat station was established here in 1871 as well as the one at North Landing, because the curve of the cliff gave shelter and made it easier to launch a boat from here.