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Bradford-on-Avon has changed little in the last century. There has been no by-pass, no rash of new developments.

The Trinity Weslyan Methodist Chapel, on the corner of Mawney Road and Linden Street, was built in 1888 and provided seating for 750 worshippers.

Nazeing's name means 'settlers on the projection of land'. It sits above the River Lea, and is a world of arable fields and market-garden glasshouses.

Tillingham has been owned by the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's since at least 604.

A little to the north of the Thames and beyond Staines is the village of Stanwell.

Situated in Appleton, to the north of central Widnes, St Bede's is a reminder of the then recent change in the status of Britain's Roman Catholics.

Coping stones now surround the edge of the lake, and the arch of roses that spanned Picklefoot Spring at the point where it emerges has been constructed.

This fine view along Budleigh's strand looks towards the mouth of the River Otter and the bulbous cliff top of Otterton Ledge.

Here we see the peaceful banks of the New River, with houseboats and leisure craft moored alongside.

Note the handcarts parked at the side of the street on the right, and the advertising hoardings on the side of the shop on the left of the picture, advertising among other things 'Wheatleys Hop Bitters

Victoria Park lies to the east of Newbury town centre.

But the most impressive Victorian building in Sheffield was the new town hall on the corner of Surrey Street and Pinstone Street, where an area of old housing had been demolished to make way for

Originally owned by the Priory of St Bartholomew The Great, the estate was acquired in 1709 by James Brydges, later Duke of Chandos. Here he created one of London's great houses.

in recognition of contributions to National War Savings.

Tradition says that a lighthouse was built on the sands here in the early 1700s, but it collapsed into the sand. A ship carrying cotton bales was shipwrecked off Wirral, and the bales washed ashore.

Beneath the church is an ambulatory, which contains a collection of human remains.

Bilston had a lock-making industry of sorts in the 16th century but it remained fairly static; along with Pontypool, Bilston was an early centre for japanning—the copying of Japanese goods by English

An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.

In the late 1870s the Grammar School boys had lost a corner of their cricket field when a new area was being laid out for the weekly market.

The neighbouring estate to the Chaloners' Gisborough estate, the Hutton and Pinchinthorpe estate, was bought in the 1860s by the Quaker industrialist, Joseph Whitwell Pease of Darlington.

More cars on the cobbles are noticeable now. The impressive edifice of the Midland Bank, number 12 Westgate, is second from the left.

However, perhaps they eavesdropped on an animated discussion between a group of men who were studying a large plan.

of the 20th century.

We cooked anything cookable we could get hold of, pinching potatoes and turnips from fields on the way there, and apples from orchards.