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Newport was founded by a group of beachmen or salvagers in 1841; nine of the founders were drowned attempting a salvage operation in the following year.

Southbourne retains a great deal of its original charm, despite being swallowed up by the bustling metropolis of Bournemouth.

Hallow was the home in later years of Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842).

This is a close-up view of the audience at the Dutch Oven bandstand. Most of the ladies are wearing light summer dresses, while some of the gentlemen have even discarded their headwear.

Prior to 1582, documents referred to this village as 'Blechingley', meaning 'the ley (or clearing) of the Blaecci people', and its origins probably date back to the 7th or 8th century.

This is the splendid 12th-century church of St Michael and All Angels with its Norman arches.

Now the Tenby Sailing Club, the large building on the left is the former Sleeman Stores; built in the 18th century, it stood on piers, spanning the sluice.

Although they are outside the City of Nottingham's boundaries, Carlton and Gedling are really its eastern suburbs.

The population grew in the 19th century, especially after the opening of the colliery here in 1897. Today the town is most notable for its rows of terraces winding round the valley contours.

Baldock Street leads northwards out of Ware towards Thundridge. The higgledy-piggledy row of pubs, shops and dwellings has hardly changed over the years.

Selsley was, until 1863, a part of Kings Stanley ecclesiastical parish. The church's design is based on one at Marlengo in the Tyrol, and has important glass from the workshops of William Morris.

The earlier pub on the site, made famous by the music hall star Florrie Ford, was demolished in the early 1920s, and rebuilt to a vaguely similar design.

William Hancocks of Blakeshall Hall and his wife laid the foundation stone of Cookley church on 20 February 1849.

A church at Ellington is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086. The chancel arch of the present church dates from the 13th century, and the tower was added in around 1390.

This is a charming turn- of-the-century tableau of Salutation Square, which is the main access into the town.

The ancient steps known as Granny's Teeth protrude from the inner side of the only surviving section of rough locally-sourced medieval walling at the Cobb.

Simon de Montfort's army lay here the night before the Battle of Lewes in 1264. The area was made notorious by the 'Piltdown Man' fake archaeological discov- eries in the 1910s.

Glasson Dock Bridge connects the two halves of the village.

Back on the main road, this is the real centre of the modern village; there is a good range of shops and pubs, and the school, Herstmonceux Church of England Primary School, lies behind the fence on

Captioned by Frith in the 1950s 'A Pretty Spot', this view looks north across a footbridge over a stream towards the eastern end of the village.

As we look southwards from the Hele stone, through the middle arch, we can see the tallest stone of the inner horseshoes of trilithons.

The town of Winsford did not exist until the Weaver River was canalised in 1731 - this was needed to link the local salt fields with the Mersey River.

There is a substantial amount of Victorian development seen in this view of the town from the west, looking across Brooklands Park and the new cemetery on Queens Road with its chapel.

During 1955-57 the company spent £36 million on doubling car production, excavating over 1.5 million tons of chalk and clay from the Chilterns to accommodate 1.6 million square feet of building