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Another general view, this time of the tranquil Usk as it wends its way down towards the Severn estuary south of Newport, Gwent. The Usk rises south-west of Trecastle in Powys.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

A long-vanished view of Hoveton in the days of the horse and cart, the flaming torch sign for the school approach and the neatly thatched cottage.

Excavations were carried out on the Chapter House in 1902, when the graves of five Abbots, including that of Abbot Sampson, were discovered.

The late 17th-century Town Hall was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, whose father was Dean of Windsor.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than orna- ment.

Another general view of Matlock Bath, looking up towards the wooded Heights of Abraham on the skyline.

In Upton's churchyard lies a landlord of The White Lion.

On the corner of Kings Mill Lane, some timber-framed cottages are built gable-end to the street.

Only a mile or so from Petworth, the village of Byworth typifies the rural community in this Edwardian photograph.

On the downlands close by are a considerable number of prehistoric barrows - burial grounds of some of the earliest inhabitants.

The sign on the creeper-clad walls of the Old Bridge Hotel proclaim it as 'one of England's best'.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

This waterfall is not as spectacular as the Rhenass falls of Glen Helen or those of Glen Meay or Dhoon Glen, but even so the Frith cameraman managed to provide us with a pleasing view of the Colby falls

Now Southampton's Archaeological Museum, this used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and powder stored here.

The Plain, as it is known, lies just to the east of Magdalen Bridge, representing the boundaries of the old city. Here the Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

Tom Tower is one of the college's most treasured architectural features, as well as a famous landmark on the Oxford skyline.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site. The heavily restored medieval tower is all that remains.

Above the junction of Castlegate and Parsons Lane is the keep of Clitheroe Castle, which was founded under Roger de Poitou shortly after William seized the throne from Harold.

Ladies Walk was laid out in 1785 by the Enclosure Award Commissioners in conjunction with the Corporation of Andover.

Here we see a change of pace compared to some of the previous pictures: the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and the road is heaving with traffic. 1955 was a year of newspaper and dock strikes;

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy