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A Mini, a Wolseley, a Ford Capri and Cortina, a Morris Traveller and others all suggest the age of the motor car is finally with us; this street is dominated by the motor vehicle.

This 18th-century inn was associated with smuggling - this isolated part of the coast was notorious for the illegal trade.

The complete breadth of the hillside supports a great acreage of woodland, which seems a little too neat for nature and thus could well be a forestry plantation.

The pub fronts Main Street, sitting prominently at the junction of Cosby Road and Station Road, and appears to be the bad conversion of a former row of cottages.

Situated on the south-west side of the village, the church was heavily restored by Frederick Peck of Maidstone in 1872.

This clock is a notable landmark by the side of the road connecting Windermere with Bowness.

The main suite of rooms is south of the Great Hall. The library has an ornate chimneypiece carved in oak by a highly skilled carver from Mansfield.

Another of Cheshire's cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all

The Globe at Swanage was carved out of a great mass of Portland Stone, ten feet in diameter and forty tons in weight.The Globe is positioned to represent the position of the earth in space, with nearby

This 1820s structure, built by the Grosvenor family, required the remodelling of the old nuclear village of Halkyn, including its church, to accommodate it.

This view, looking north towards the entrance (in the Alton Road), shows several cottages built of chalk, some of which have since been demolished.

The parish of Abbots Ripton lies a few miles north of Huntingdon. At the time of the Dissolution it was held by Ramsey Abbey.

This photograph, taken towards the eastern end of Victoria Road, shows what an important retail area this was.

Brewhouse Hill leads from Wheathampstead to the hamlet of Amwell (not to be confused with the village, south of Ware, of the same name.)

We are looking eastwards from the end of Brotton High Street, and the chimneys of the Skinningrove iron and steel works can be seen in the distance.

Built in 1878, and flagship of the MacBrayne fleet, Columba was renowned for the quality of her passenger comfort, with saloons the full width of her hull, a barber's shop and a post office.

The pub fronts Main Street, sitting prominently at the junction of Cosby Road and Station Road, and appears to be the bad conversion of a former row of cottages.

The two shots together provide an almost panoramic view of the coastline. Here the young boys explore the boat, whilst a lady appears only too aware of the photographer.

The view of Church Street from the opposite side of the roadway shows the medieval timber frontage of the Berkeley Arms Hotel with its first floor mullioned window, while further along is a

In 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having landed at Pevensey to claim the English throne from King Harold, marched here and built a timber castle.

The new town of Amersham on the Hill developed from the 1890s when, after 60 years of opposition, the Drakes and then the Tyrwhitt-Drakes finally allowed the railway to come to Amersham, but up the hill

Known as the Prince of Wales Arch, this was erected by the Rev Oliver Raymond (d1889), the third of six Raymonds who were rectors here.

Watchet was one of medieval Somerset's most important towns, and its harbour remained important into the 20th century, exporting iron ore from the Brendon Hills to the south.

Just south-east of Stopham Bridge is the confluence of the Arun and its most important tributary, the Western Rother, previously known as the Turning Stream or Westwater, which extended to Fittleworth,