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This view of the Stonebow shows the length of the long open room on the top floor: this is the old city Guildhall, with a fine open timber roof of about 1520.

Trinity Presbyterian Church opened in 1895; before it was built, the hall at the rear of the church opened for worship in 1889.

This view down Bridge Street, looking towards Bridge Foot, shows the impact of the redevelopment of the earlier 20th century.

Bank Park was fashioned out of the private gardens of Bank Hall.

John Abel built a number of market houses around the county of Herefordshire, only a few of which survive. This is said to be one of his although there is no documentation to prove it.

This view looks along Caldy Road with the part stone, part half-timbered Reading Room on the right. It was built by the Barton family in 1883.

The Manor House, built in the late 17th century, was the home of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the great landscape gardener. He was lord of the manor of Fenstanton, and his monument is in the church.

Much of the older town has gone, but in and around the High Street there are still reminders of Crawley as it used to be.

The second transmitter, opened in 1927, provided the first public telephone service to the USA, and was the forerunner of international communications.

An assortment of small fishing and rowing boats has been hauled safely above the high water mark in this picture of the eastern end of the Marine Parade; the famous white cliffs are visible beyond the

The massive twin-towered Westgate is the only survivor of the six medieval gates which once interrupted the path of the Norman wall around the city. The rest were pulled down in 1781.

Here we see shoppers in the centre of town on what was obviously a warm summer's morning, and with a surprisingly low level of traffic.

A continuation of Church Street, Chapel Street leads on to the High Street.

Back into town, this view from Orange Grove looks along past Brydon's Municipal Buildings of 1893, 'rendered necessary by the large increase of public business since the erection of the central building

Climbing out of Limpley Stoke, head west through Hinton Charterhouse with its fascinating remains of the 13th-century Carthusian priory, Hinton Priory, to the village of Wellow, four miles south of Bath

The Calf of Man looking in the general direction of Kione Beg and Gibdale Point. The narrow channel which separates the island from Man, Calf Sound, is over on the left of the picture.

The distinctive central tower of King William's College was designed by John Welch and was a feature of a major rebuilding programme following a fire in 1844.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury has wide views over Blackmoor Vale and thousands of acres of rolling Dorset countryside. Some locals still use its old name of Shaston.

Here we see a lovely view of the wide flower-flecked green on what looks like a warm evening. Littlebourne has a long history, and had a closely-knit community in those days.

Note Bridge Buildings, vantage point for the photographers who took some of the other photos of the Square.

Francis Frith's photographer would have been directed to the village of Glynn as the 'artists' spot'.

At this time only some 10 per cent of the county's agricultural land was in the hands of owner-occupiers; the majority was still controlled by the great estates.

The octagonal tower is that of the Wesleyan church, which had replaced the Old Cock Inn. Over to the right, the Cross Keys had been superseded by the Regent Theatre.

This photograph gives us some idea of the rural setting for this village, something of a constrast to the dense housing of the village itself.