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Here the workmen are carrying out their highly-specialised craft surrounded by the tools of their trade. Note the bundles of thatch standing to the left of the picture.

Dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, Snape was once the seat of the Fitz-Randolphs and Nevilles, Lords of Middleham, and was rebuilt by the Latimers during the reign of Henry VI.

It was one of many castles built by the de Lacy family and was part of a network of castles throughout the area, used to control what was once wild, border country.

Certainly by the early 19th century this was a village in decline.

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

Their attention has been attracted by a fisherman handling a box on the beach, whcih could have been handed down by the person inside the boat.

The White Horse pub can just be seen on the right, and on the left by the school sign are familiar adverts for Lyons Ice Cream and Lyons Tea.

Here, looking towards Ingoldmells Point, are the sandy beach and the sand dunes, a view now radically changed by the more recent sea defences with a massive concave-fronted sea wall forming a promenade

By the time this photograph was taken, the coastguards were taking a greater interest in protecting mariners from the power of the sea than seizing contraband.

It was bought by the Duke of Wellington in 1817 and here were held glittering banquets celebrating the victory at Waterloo until his death in 1852.

A Lowestoft-registered fishing boat slips out to sea unnoticed by the anglers on the harbour. In the background is the imposing, if somewhat overpowering, edifice of the Grand Hotel.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time of this photograph.

27 years after photograph 27159, the chamber has been rebuilt, new gear fitted to the gate sluices and a house built for the lock-keeper by the Thames Conservancy.

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

The tower may be 13th century, with the needle spire added by the 15th century. The clock was given in 1907 by General Jago Trelawny after a serious illness.

The photographer walked away from the river bridge up Hart Street towards the Town Hall in Market Place and turned back by the Bell Street junction to take this view towards the church with its dominating

The Buttercross was erected in 1734 by the wife of Solomon Dupier, a former garrison commander in Gibraltar, who later lived in the town.

the Godolphin racing stable (ironically owned by Sheikh Makhtoum); it is named after Godolphin Arabian, one of the three Arab stallions from which all British racehorses are descended, and imported by the

This view shows a virtually-deserted Market Place at Bawtry, with a 'half-timbered' Morris Minor prominently parked by the old Buttercross.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

Built by Sir John Turner as an exchange for merchants in 1683, it was purchased by the Crown for a Custom House in 1715.

Constructed by the same craftsmen that built Trunch and Knapton churches, the barn is,160ft long, 24ft wide and about 60ft from floor to roof apex.

Shirebrook is a small town on the border with Nottinghamshire which grew up with, and was dominated by, the growth of the Shirebrook and Langwith collieries.

Chair-making was another speciality, and there is still a chair-maker here by the church.