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Castrol House, on the corner of Balcombe Street and Marylebone Road, was completed in 1960, when it caused much comment for being London's first American-style curtain-walled office building.

Chigwell, situated on the edge of Hainault forest, has been much developed over the years, but the village still presents a deceptively leafy appearance.The bakery and tea-rooms are reminders that

Fashionable hotels soon lined the front, with villa residences and smart cottages being erected along the slopes of Sid Vale to cater for a dramatic increase in the resident population.

This is the ancient arched bridge over the River Aire in the pretty Airedale village of Malham.

The core of the building was erected by George Hawker in the 1760s. It had no water supply until 1790. It was rebuilt on a grander scale by Alexander Holcombe in 1868.

The Severn has long been a favoured destination of fishermen, especially for salmon and elvers. It is also noted for pike, roach, perch, chub and gudgeon.

The clock tower dates from 1875, by which time Newnham had long ceased to be the most important Gloucestershire town on the west bank of the river.

The County Council had been buying parcels of land in this area since the 1930s, in an attempt to preserve the native trees. Whitebeam, Turkey oak, beech, poplar, sycamore and alder abound here.

The northward view is slightly less romantic: Pitsea High Road crosses the centre of the picture, with the Northlands estate behind it.

This Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary stands on Stow Hill on the site of an earlier, smaller, edifice.

Note the ladies and children in the centre of the photograph, the former with long skirts and boaters and the children sporting knee-length dresses for the girls and knickerbocker trousers for the boy.

The arch is not the genuine article: it is in fact a folly built by one Miss Elizabeth Morgan in 1820, using stone recovered from the remains of Roman buildings.

The quoins are of re-used abbey stone, and the stone slate roofs came from Colleyweston in Northamptonshire. It was possibly at this house that the plans were made for constructing the Bedford Level.

Some time after the end of the Second World War, it became a boys' boarding school run by Essex County Council. Today, it houses the Hockerill Anglo-European School.

More interesting are the three windows to the left of this poster; these belonged to Mr Short, a local photographer, whose photographs adorned these windows in neat rows.

The green, on the far side of the village from the church and overlooked by the village school, is now enclosed with a low wooden fence.

A major roundabout lies just off to the right, at the junction of Ormesby High Street and Cargo Fleet Lane, and this view looks north towards Middlesbrough.

New Quay had a RNLI lifeboat from 1864, and there were coastguards based here for the protection of passing boats and unfortunate or irresponsible visitors.

Taken from Devil's Point looking across Firestone bay with the Hoe just visible on the far right.

Livestock was still being bought and sold in the Market Place, on the centre left of the picture, until only a few years before this picture was taken.

The church in the centre of the village sits on Roman earthworks and Roman tiles and bricks have been discovered beneath the chancel.

A tranquil backwater off Hickling Broad shows privately-owned yachts at rest among the reeds.

The ornately decorated Weaver to Wearer shop premises on the right is now a cafe bar; the Queen's Head pub next to it has been replaced by a modern shoe shop.

The earliest residence in Rockingham dates from 1670; much of the village was modernised and improved in the 19th century, and then again in the 1950s.