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The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

Bognor, further east along the coast beyond Selsey Bill, grew up from a small fishing village and is one of the earliest Sussex sea-bathing resorts.

As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.

Eamont Bridge, just south of Penrith on the A6, takes its name from a splendid three-arched bridge across the River Eamont.

In the absence of a pavement, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

Inside is a family tree of the Eden family of Ballingdon Hall. To the right is the 18th-century red brick vicarage with its 19th-century porch.

A mile or so west of Effingham, the Guildford road cranks past a medieval fairy-tale castle.

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.

Relatives of the Rothchild family lived here, and so did Lord Battersea. The extensive gardens were named the Garden of Dreams, a play on words, as the Garden of Sleep was close by.

Try standing in the middle of the main street nowadays! Here at number 28 we have Joseph Kennerley's drapery and hosiery shop, which also doubled as the post office.

The skill of island masons can be seen in the more recent additions to the Castle. A fence now hides the short castellated turret of the lodge on the road leading away from the castle.

The Bank Street/Great Square corner was rebuilt in the 1930s with a building capped by a stylish cupola (centre, at the end of the street).

The coming of the railway in the 19th century turned it into one of the more genteel suburbs of the city.

The war memorial in the centre of Warborough was erected in memory of those who died in World War I. The building in the centre of the photograph is the Six Bells public house.

There are many charming cottages in the vicinity of Lyndhurst, some of them probably dating back to the 13th century when the harsh forest laws were relaxed somewhat during the reign of Henry III.

The winding gear and smoke-belching chimney of the colliery dominate the end of the council houses of West End Lane, New Rossington, at a time when coal was still king in South Yorkshire.

Dating from the 14th century, the White Hart is one of the oldest surviving examples of domestic architecture in the East Midlands. It is situated in the south-east corner of the Market Place.

Mr Manship's Central Café, seen in the centre of the photograph, no doubt offered a good range of refreshments, whilst gifts could be bought at the gift shop on the right of this view.

The Midland Bank occupies the site of Scales' boot and shoe shop and Spencer & Co's grand frontage has fallen victim to an infestation of 'Magnet Ales' signs on behalf of the Wheat Sheaf.

The western arm of Central Circus and the thin neo-Georgian buildings are not architecturally distinguished.

There is the modern settlement by the Ilford Works, two communities either side of the Mobberley Brook, and a cluster of houses by the Bird in Hand.

The Derby winner has always been celebrated by sporting artists, but it was not until Victorian times that race-goers themselves caught the imagination of the art world.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

Hardly a year passes without some piece of Dorchester's Roman archaeology coming to light. Dorchester is one of the best examples of a Roman town.