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Beer was the birthplace in 1788 of the smuggler Jack Rattenbury, who lived a life of adventure landing untaxed cargoes along much of the Devon coast.

Hopton is a diminutive village resort on the A12 just south of Great Yarmouth.

By the end of the Great War the town had lost many of its young men—they had marched away past the Steamer Hotel along Dock Street to the railway station.

Many Fylde inns were named 'Horns', presumably harking back to the days when herds of deer roamed here. Some inns of that name sported splendid antlers as inn signs, as at Goosnargh.

This 16th-century building with an 18th-century façade was built after 1564 on the site of St Mary's Guildhall. Aubrey Thomas Wicks traded from London House.

Here is the 11th-century church of All Saints built by the Flemish architect Gilbert de Gant (d1094), a nephew of William the Conqueror.

The 66 ton Logan Rock was forcibly dislodged in 1824 by a Lt Goldsmith and the crew of the Revenue Cutter 'Nimble'.

In between the dramatic hills of Great and Little Whernside, Coverham lies in a hollow 2 miles west of Middleham.

Former 'quarr houses' and stone workings (bottom left) can be seen here beside Durlston Bay (lower right) which revealed fossils of the first marsupial-type mammals that succeeded the dinosaurs.

The symmetry of the ploughman's furrows consign the hills of Bryn Arw and the Sugar Loaf to a background role.

Like the nearby village of Alvecote, Polesworth was once a mining area.

The Tudor Café, seen on the left, was a popular attraction with a great many of Newbury's citizens as well as large numbers of visitors to the town.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1500s, this became the parish church for the town.

The advent of the internal combustion engine saw the demise of the village blacksmith, although the art is making something of a comeback with the demand for decorative railings and gates.

We are south-west of the village centre, and the photograph exudes a strange feeling of well- cared-for neglect.

This view of a corner of the village's rectangular green shows the Fountaine Inn on the left, named after Linton's most famous son, Richard Fountaine, who became an alderman of the City of London in the

This fine example of Norman architecture was in a derelict state, and the church of Holy Trinity in New Road, consecrated in June 1855, took over as the place of regular worship.

In the years following the end of the second world war, John Harker Ltd built several estuarine tankers on the foreshore at Sharpness. One of them might be in the background of this picture.

The parish church of St Nicholas, like many of Wirral's fine buildings, is constructed from local red sandstone.

The parish church of St John the Baptist overlooks the water meadows of the Ouse; the sunsets from here on a winter's evening are wonderful.

We are looking east from the Market Square; the battlements of the church can be seen to the left of Church House (extreme left).

Another of the town's important roads, Crow Lane East was extended in the 1960s with the addition of a library, the original Technical School and a large estate of social housing.

As an approach to Junction 1 of the M53 motorway, Leasowe Road (A551) is now dual carriageway for much of its length.

In June 2001, The Wiltshire Times described it as 'one of the town's hidden treasures'.