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Lying in the tranquil Rye valley two miles west of Helmsley, Rievaulx was the first Cistercian monastery in the North of England. It was built in 1131 by French monks.

Note the characteristic Watney's sloping lettering and the barrel over the inn sign - the symbol of the then voguish keg bitter that so nearly was to destroy real ale, in my opinion, in the 1960s.

Situated by the side of the main road through Alford, the church of St Wilfrid is built mainly of Lincolnshire green stone, which does not wear too well.

The modern shops of Littleham are some distance away from the heart of the older village.

Moving south-west, the tour reaches East Harting, a hamlet east of South Harting, the main village with the parish church.

Chalk stacks off Handfast Point, the north-eastern extremity of the Purbeck Hills, display the dynamics of coastal erosion.

The remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was

The road to the right of the Three Cups Inn is St Mary`s Street.

The Royal Lancaster Infirmary is pictured in the year this building was opened by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, later to be George V and Queen Mary.

Until the M25 and M23 by-passed Godstone, it had become seriously blighted by traffic on the Eastbourne road, the A22 and east-west traffic on the A25, which peaked in the 1960s and 1970s

West of Sutton Courtenay the route reaches Drayton. The older houses are mostly along the High Street, Church Lane and Abingdon Road.

It is sometimes almost unbelievable when we realise how much of our heritage has been destroyed during the past century.

We see a view of the main street here; this was probably as busy as it got in those days! The name Borden means 'woodland pasture by the hill'.

In 1292 the Earl of Arundel submitted to the Bishop of Chichester, who had excommunicated him for walking his dog in the bishop's forest.

To the north of Newbury, on the edge of the downs, lies Hampstead Norris, surrounded by hills and woodland.

Part of a series of gardens laid out by Margaret, later the first Lady Gisborough, the rose garden afforded picturesque views of the neighbouring priory ruins.

THE STRAND has always been at the heart of the town, where people met to trade as well as socialise. The market was central to the town's economy for centuries.

Just past the South Walney nature reserve on Haws Point is the impressive structure of the Walney lighthouse, erected in 1790 as a plain wooden tower.

Imagine the different noises, smells and preoccupations of the people seen in L117011 in the long-lost world of 1950s Britain.

Imagine the different noises, smells and preoccupations of the people seen in L117011 in the long-lost world of 1950s Britain.

When this building was opened in 1849, it faced the almost-new Deaf and Dumb Institute; the two buildings extended this edge of Belfast, bringing a formal touch to it.

Harold George Howard Perhaps one of the most influential landowners in the 1920s was Harold George Howard.

A first venture into council housing supplied 180 houses on the Ebbisham Road estate at the edge of the Common.

A splendid view over the heart of Taunton town. In late Victorian times many of the old buildings of Taunton were demolished and new streets were created.