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The street lighting has been upgraded, though the gradient of the road still forced the cyclist to dismount to push his bike.

This small elevated village lies about a mile to the north-east of Melton Mowbray on the A607 Grantham road.

The huts are arranged just above the high tide mark along the length of Par Beach. Much of the sand has been derived from waste entering the bay from mines and china clay works inland.

The pound lock replaced the hazardous flash locks in the middle of the weir in 1773.

Simply elegant, this is the last of a superb series of 1930s underground stations extending along the northern section of the Piccadilly Line, including Arnos Grove, Southgate and Oakwood, all designed

The Causeway leads from the town of Buntingford to the original, and now derelict, parish church of St Bartholomew, Layston.

This view looks towards one of the entrances to the series of underground canals that extended to the Duke's pits at Walkden.

Just north of the village is Brewery House, home of Sir William Hooker and his son Joseph.

Part of Ramsgate's famous fleet of fishing smacks are moored in the inner harbour.

A swan cruises on the river as it curves into the east side of the village, running by a municipalised garden of finely-mown grass, and a statutory wooden seat carefully placed under the only tree of consequence

The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Christchurch is the mother cathedral of the Church of Ireland. It is situated a short distance west of Trinity College.

The small town of Watlington, at the foot of the Chiltern escarpment, used to be famous for its many inns.

Giltar Point is an expanse of limestone projecting out into the sea at the end of Tenby's South Beach.

To a current inhabitant, the most striking feature of this view is the absence of houses in the centre.

Almost in Gloucestershire, Bushley lies but a couple of miles from Tewkesbury.

The township of Staveley-in- Cartmel is part of a civil parish of the same name. The name 'Staveley' means 'a woodland clearing where staves were to be found'.

Chideock, usually pronounced without the 'e', stands rooted in history along the line of an old stagecoach route.

Cattle graze on Emery Down's green in the early years of the last century, a more familiar sight then than now.

The gardens were laid out in front of the North Euston Hotel, which by 1861 had become Euston Barracks.

It is a few years after No R87001 (above), and the High Street is still almost deserted - just a couple of cars but no pedestrians, despite the new-fangled zebra crossing.

It is the site of the first lock on the Thames, which has been rebuilt in masonry, with a subsidiary lock for the passage of pleasure boats.

It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.

The mill at Witchampton stands on the site of a much older mill building.