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To the left of the River Stour is the Bell Hotel; the town records report that the mayor 'presented King Charles II with a glass of sack at the Bell tavern door' when his Majesty rode in

This is taken from Old Kirton Road, looking towards the capped top of the mill, now Mill Close. The cottages are Victorian and Edwardian, and some of them may have been built for workers at the kiln.

Built in the late1820s, Fort Perch Rock Battery site was then manned continuously until the end of World War II.

This view shows the other end of the Square abutting Market Street. Marks & Spencer can just be seen on the left.

This was the scene of a devastating lightning strike on 13 December 1779.

Basildon's market opened on 6 September 1958.

Burton is considered by many to be one of the most picturesque villages in the Wirral, and it is enhanced by the wonderful panorama over the Dee Estuary to the hills of Wales.

A number of quality villas were planned during the 1860s in the early development of Saltburn, although not all of them materialised.

There had been a church dedicated to St Werburgh, daughter of the King of Mercia, at Warburton before the Normans.

There was once a Holy Thorn tree in Orcop that was said to have grown from a cutting from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. Unfortunately, it was blown down in a gale in 1980.

This photograph is taken from the spot where the Job Centre now stands, or the car park just down the hill.

It was the home of the Guild of St Anne of Knowle (a religious and charitable foundation), but in later years it served many other purposes.

Kingswinford has become a place of characterless roads, estate houses and shopping precincts, but it retains a scattering of the elegant houses built by 18th-century ironmasters and glassworks owners

The older part is naturally more interesting, with its quaint old buildings clinging to the banks of the Hamble.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Paignton pier, one of the oldest in Britain, strides 800 feet out to sea; we see it here in all its Victorian finery.

The town rose swiftly to the challenge of the new tourism in the Victorian era. Piers were constructed and seaside attractions of all kinds soon sprang up.

This crowded scene shows the stalls sited on Parliament Street in St Sampson's Square. The market was moved to nearby Newgate in 1955.

The frieze that tops the Corinthian portico proclaims in Latin that the Exchange was founded in the thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeth, and restored in the seventh of Queen Victoria.

The Angel Hotel on the left was one of three to cater for the motorist; the others were the George and Dragon and the Brunswick.

New Canal street commemorates one of the many open waterways which ran through the medieval streets until the 19th century.

With the towers of the Minster in the background, this street lined with red brick and white-rendered Georgian cottages has a pleasing elegance and symmetry.

After Henry VIII's dissolu- tion of the monasteries in 1542, the Priory Chapel became St Mary's Parish Church.

This miniature model of Stonehenge in far-off Wiltshire was erected by William Danby of Swinton Hall, Ilton, near Masham in around 1820 as a folly to interest and impress visitors to his estate.