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Two miles west of Margate, Westgate on Sea has two bays; sea walls built along the curves of the bays form two promenades with steps down to the beach, and gardens are laid out for the benefit of visitors

Not far from Lyndhurst is the village of Emery Down, blessed with a number of attractive cottages and a row of quite beautiful almshouses.

The Post Office boasts a range of enamel advertising signs. Behind it is the parish church of St Catherine with its large flint tower.

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

Walking is one of the very best ways to explore the delights of the Isle of Wight.

An excellent view of the gable end of this church showing the 13th century lancet windows and above them the roof-line of the original nave.

A fine prospect of Caterham, taken looking west from the steep scarp slope of the north downs above Crescent Road.

Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.

Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.

Owned by the Duke of Norfolk, the 52 acres of Norfolk Park had been open to the citizens of Sheffield since 1841.

The castle and the south- eastern approaches to the town present an illusion of island tranquillity, stretching from the wide waters of the Usk through the cattle-filled Castle Meadows to

This hilltop village overlooks the head of Gillan Creek at the northern edges of the Lizard, close by the Helford River.

Three miles from Wellingborough, between the Nene and the Ise, lies the village of Finedon.

None of its brick buildings is outstanding, yet the total effect is one of pleasing harmony. Many of the shops have retained their Victorian detailing.

A final view of Christchurch, again looking east along the nave. The massive nature of the architecture is clearly seen.

South of the market-place, the old grammar school is centred around a wide, seven-bay red-brick building of 1765.

It is believed that Bainbridge was a settlement for woodsmen working in the great forest of Wensleydale.

The medieval system of strip-lynchet farming is still visible on the hillsides around this small hamlet in this turn of the century photograph.

One of a number of attractive coves on the length of coastline between Torquay and Babbacombe, Anstey's Cove has been a favourite retreat for holidaymakers since Victorian times, when the proprietor would

Another view of the dusty, un-made road surface of the High Street which carried so much traffic at the start of the century, together with the intrusive early telegraph poles which, sentinel-like, dwarf

The church is a fine pre-Reformation church, now part of the Church of Ireland. St Mary's was heavily restored in the nineteenth century.

There are few scenes on the Isle of Wight more captivating than Yarmouth harbour on a busy sailing day.

This distant view was taken from the north of the linear village of Darley Dale, which spreads along the A6 north of Matlock on the road to Bakewell.

Bell Road is an echo of Northfield's agricultural past.The population grew by over 200 per cent between 1881 and 1891, nearly all of it overflow from Birmingham; but modern Northfield owes much to