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The Metropole Hotel, beloved as a modern day conferencing venue and purveyor of Victoriana, looks a little sleepy in this post-war photograph.

It is a fascinating 18th-century industrial settlement built on a ‘green field’ site at a point where ample water power was available.

Brading's Bull Ring is a legacy of the barbaric tradition of bull-baiting, where a tethered animal would be attacked by a succession of dogs.

A perfect natural harbour, Lulworth Cove has been hollowed out by the swirling waters of the English Channel into its present almost circular form, creating one of the most distinctive bays on

The parish church of St Patrick, in the background, is only one of ten in England dedicated to Ireland's patron saint.

This fine skyline view of Edwardian Bournemouth, with its wealth of splendid church buildings, is a testimony to the endeavours of Bournemouth's first vicar and his son Alexander Sykes Bennett, who

On the left are the Abbey fields, at the end of which stands the late 13th-century church of St Nicholas. Nearby are the ruins of Kenilworth Abbey, founded and endowed by Geoffrey de Clinton in 1122.

The Porthminster Hotel, overlooking Porthminster Beach, was opened in 1894 to accommodate the increasing number of visitors arriving in St Ives since the opening of the railway.

The last piece of the jigsaw that was to complete the picture of Hull's docks arrived just before the First World War with the opening of the first dock in the country to use electric power throughout

Thatched roofs predominate in this turn-of-the-century view of Madingley.

The ruins of this collegiate parish church overlook Howth harbour. The church was founded in 1235 to take the place of St Nessan's on the nearby island of Ireland's Eye.

Athelhampton Hall is one of two grand houses near to the village of Puddletown, both lived in at various times by members of the Martyn family.

The hilltop town of Shaftesbury became important when King Alfred founded an abbey here, and installed his daughter as abbess.

This view of the river south of Newark gives an idea of its industrial base, with the Trent Brewery chimneys and, on the left, Parnham's Watermill seen beyond the dredger, keeping the water

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

They founded their town of Corinium by the River Churn, in an area occupied by a native tribe called Dobunni.

The Jacobean oak pulpit of c1630 was found in the tower arch covered in white paint, and was placed in its present position during the restoration of the church in 1851.

This view shows the 'sublime horrors' of the waterfall that the first visitors came to see: the hotel provided for their needs.

Castle Douglas lies close by the main road from Dumfries to Stranraer at the north end of Carlingwark Loch. Until the end of the 1700s it was known as Carlingwark.

This was the last of Edward Longshanks' Welsh fortresses. Construction began in 1295 under the personal supervision of the King's engineer-architect Master James of St George.

Street names intially included 'Reform Place 1835' to commemorate electoral changes after the Boundary Commission had reported: 'The chief trade arises from the manufacture of hemp and flax, and Allington

The supporting bearers to the timber frame of the Tudor building are visible in detail.

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

On the exposed Wolds, the ironstone church is situated on the south side of the village street, away from the main A606 Nottingham to Stamford road.