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An evocative picture of this attractive village some two miles north east of Wadhurst and now close to Bewl Bridge Reservoir.

The tower of the parish church dominates this view of Beckside, a small hamlet on the slopes of the Furness Fells above the village of Kirkby-in-Furness on the Duddon Estuary.

Middleham, a medieval township at the mouth of Wensleydale, is famous for breeding and training racehorses and for its historic castle, once the home of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, and later of King

This elegant little suspension or 'swing bridge' over the River Derwent is a pleasing feature of the Plain of York village of Huttons Ambo, near Malton.

The plotland development of this part of Basildon stemmed from the agricultural depression of the 1870s. Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

Littlebourne is one of the charming little villages in the heart of the orchard country which stretches between Canterbury and Wingham; its cottages present an unusual mixture of architectural styles

A closer view of the group in the previous photograph reveals them relaxing on the slipway.

Fontmell Magna's church has a sad memorial to a victim of one of the greatest tragedies of the last century.

Hugh Lupus, the first of the Norman earls of Chester, is said to have ordered the construction of a weir so that the mills would have a regular source of water power.

A pair of ladies in fashionable Edwardian costume stroll along the raised pavement of Rowcroft on their way to the shops of King Street. A little ahead of them is a gas lamp standard.

A couple of old villagers pass the time of day with a youngster in the West Cumbrian village of Gosforth.

Between 1873 and 1879 a new Church was built to serve the parish of Heene.

HAVING traced the big changes that led to today's modern town of 165,000 with its own suburbs and rush hour to match, it is now time to look towards tomorrow.

With the council's eventual acquisition of the pier in 1924 their financial commitment to it and to the development of the Esplanade would be huge, and spread over decades of work.

After the dissolution of Fountains Abbey, the land was eventually purchased by John Aislaby. He landscaped the fields and created the two lakes and the formal water gardens.

Here we get an idea of the imposing bulk of the great Half-Moon Battery, the parapet of which was added in the 1690s.

Binbrook, on the side of a valley of the rolling western part of The Wolds north of Ludford, was once a prosperous small market town with two parish churches.

The Georgian practice of the leisured classes of promenading along the water's edge for therapeutic reasons continued to be popular during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, and imposing parades were constructed

A small group (centre left), seeking the shade of mature trees in the hot summer of 1921, faces the photographer.

The abundance of Union Jacks and other flags in this view of Wakefield indicates that the photograph was taken in 1953, the year of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation.

This road junction is just to the south of the centre of Wellington, and sits astride the London to Holyhead road that was built by Thomas Telford in the early 1800s.

In 1903 lifeboats were either of the pulling or sailing type.

We are looking westwards along Leys Avenue; we can just see the last of the Georgian-style shops and flats in the distance.

One casualty of the increasing maturity of the population can be seen in Wilmslow Opera's recent problems.