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Tin Town 1917 Around the time this photograph was taken, the first of a series of Army camps was erected at Bramshott.

The Slaughter brook runs down the middle of this village - one of the loveliest in the county, despite its ugly name.

Herbert H Raphael's gift to the town of 20 acres of parkland and lake was given out of generosity, but he may also have been concerned that his envisaged development of the select Gidea Park Garden

After a prolonged period of restoration Llandaff Cathedral was reopened during Easter 1857.

This splendid view of the site of the former cliff-top fort was taken prior to the extension of the cliff-foot promenade.The terrace of houses in the centre of the picture, Fort Paragon, was constructed

The late Victorian and Edwardian buildings are part of the expansion of Felixstowe as a seaside resort.

Constructed during the 1880s, Vyrnwy was the first of the massive reservoirs of Powys. The village of Llanwddyn was drowned, but it can still be seen in times of drought when the water level drops.

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

Sir Robert Peel called it 'one of the finest sites in Europe'.

Castle Hill is part of 365 acres of common land donated for '...the relief of the poor' in the 12th century. There are 20 miles of public rights of way.

The River Teme rises in the Kerry Hills of Radnorshire and flows through 75 miles of beautiful countryside before it meets the River Severn just south of Worcester.

This high village of the Weald looks out on a panoramic view of orchards and hopfields, although the foundation of its prosperity in the Middle Ages was based on weaving and iron-working.

The reduction of this castle of Edward I, built in around 1275, was thorough. The chimney stacks behind speak of a different kind of power, that of industry.

Thomas Ken, who was rector of Brighstone before becoming Bishop of Winchester, ministered to Charles II as he lay dying; accompanied Charles' illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth on his way to the block

Park Lane, once the desolate by-road known as Tiburn Lane, was a refined street of palatial mansions enjoying expansive vistas of the Park by 1890.

This seemingly idyllic rural summer scene on the banks of the River Brit, with its group of thatched cottages, lines of washing and vegetable garden, is brought acutely into focus by a closer

The village of Braemar is situated on the banks of Cluny Burn.

The waters of Nor' Loch once flowed over the area now occupied by Princes Gardens, the railway, and Princes Street, and together with an area of marshland formed a part of the castle and the old city's

Walking along the street and noting the names of some of the cottages (Shoemakers and Tanners, for example), one is reminded of another important local industry – leather and the production

The classic Palladian west front of Chatsworth House, seen from the banks of the River Derwent.

This is a closer view of the southern end of the High Street.

Duntisbourne Abbots was once the property of the Abbots of Gloucester; it is the northernmost of a string of villages lining the River Dunt.

Upper Slaughter was the home of F E Witts, the 19th-century parson, who portrayed the village in his 'Diary of a Cotswold Parson'.

The island of Iona, near Mull off the west coast of Scotland, is known as the cradle of Scottish Christianity or 'The Mecca of Gael'. St Columba built his monastery here in AD563.