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Whitmore Way was the site of Basildon's first proper shopping parade: this included a post office, a Martin's newsagent and a much-needed chip shop.

Between the two buildings runs the railway, at a much lower level. On the opposite side of the road stands the Plaza cinema with the Hippodrome theatre next to it.

A striking feature of this picture is the contrast between the rounded, early Norman arch in the foreground and the taller, narrow pointed arch of a later period at the western end of the nave.

It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

1645, after a forced march covering 30 miles in 36 hours over difficult terrain in some of the worst weather in living memory, that the great Marquess of Montrose, with fewer than 2000 men, defeated a much

fabric of the present building is known to date from the 16th century, there is internal evidence in the roof beams and fireplaces, and in the large use of timber on one of the external walls, of a much

Between the Conservative Club building and the stuccoed, wisteria-clad cottages at the Falconer Road end of the High Street, rises the Coronation Arch marking the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the

This was a period when thousands of hard-working Liverpudlians took their families on a much-needed break.

Slightly reminiscent of a triumphal arch and a famous landmark in Southampton for 800 years or more, Bargate is an appropriate place to begin a walk along what is left of the city walls.

Here we see solid Victorian architecture in this tree-lined street, with one well-established family retail chain much in evidence.

Much of the structure dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that building work was probably interrupted by the Black Death and only resumed much later that same century.

Much Wenlock is the most delightfully evocative town, so much so that Ellis Peters (the local author of the Brother Cadfael detective books set in the 12th century) once said of the town that you almost

Although there has been much expansion in Oxted, this part, known as Old Oxted, has retained much of its charm.

Its brand new village hall, right of centre, is outwardly much the same today although the inside is much changed.

Thomas Hardy writes of a journey into Cranborne in 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles', where the present Fleur-de-Lys tavern is depicted as the much less salubrious 'Flower-de-Luce'.

By 1560 it was owned by Sir William Paget, who developed an iron smelting industry and deforested much of it for fuel.

This 29-arch viaduct carries the Sheffield to Huddersfield railway over the River Don. It was built in 1849 a short distance from Penistone station.

Chapel Street is framed by the arched entrance to St Mary's Roman Catholic Church and its grounds. The arch is a memorial to a past priest, Father Crank, and was put up in 1913.

The rounded arch of the Norman period gave way to the Gothic pointed arch, providing increased architectural strength and the opportunity for grander, more expansive buildings.The effect is

The Bear Hotel on the left has an early 19th-century stucco front; further on are the Chapel Arches.

Very much an 'estate village', much of the property forms part of the Grinkle Estate, owned by the 19th-century industrialists, the Palmers, of Grinkle Park.

Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.

One of the oldest surviving fragments in the town, this 12th-century arch now forms the entrance to St Mary's Passage, a narrow path running down towards the meadows.

Known as the Prince of Wales Arch, this was erected by the Rev Oliver Raymond (d1889), the third of six Raymonds who were rectors here.