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The village lies south of Redditch, with Studley and Astwood Bank encroaching from east and west.

Keay House—on the right—was home to Basildon Urban District Council from 1960 to 1965. It took its name from Sir Lancelot Keay, the first chairman of Basildon Development Corporation.

This photograph and H464004 show the same scene on the St Ives Road.

The architecture of London Street has changed very little since this photograph was taken.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes still wind down to the North Sea just as they did in the 1950s.

The hillside town of Yeadon lies to the north of Bradford, and is today perhaps most famous as the site of the Leeds-Bradford Airport.

At that time John Spencer, a Warwickshire sheep farmer, acquired the estate and created a park of some 300 acres here.

The cars parked on the left of the picture may well be taxis. Rising above the cars is the impressive edifice of H Samuel, the famous High Street jeweller.

Built in 1776, the building has been enlarged and extended, and is now a part of the Metropole Hotel.

A small flock of Welsh mountain sheep are being driven along the road through Aberglaslyn pass. The breed is hardy, and well adapted to thrive on poor grazing. The narrow gorge is heavily wooded.

The Shipping Chemist on the corner of Swanpool Street (left) reflects the maritime function of Falmouth.

Agriculture in the 1950s had not changed much since the 19th cen- tury, and horses were still com- monly used on the land.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

Ellesmere was once part of the dowry of King John's illegitimate daughter, Joan.

It was the principal seat of the Mortimer family, one of whom became Edward IV.

Frederick Barker was born at Baslow on 17 March 1808, and followed other members of his family by becoming a churchman.

Just beyond, joining Third and New Courts of St John's College, is the Bridge of Sighs, its Gothic design unashamedly borrowed from the covered bridge of the same name in Venice.

A fishing settlement existed here from early times, the town being burnt by French raiders during the reign of Richard II.

Banbury once boasted a castle which enabled the town to grow in the shadow of its protective walls.

Originally the property of the Anglo Saxon kings of Mercia in the 8th century, Eynsham later became the setting for a Benedictine abbey which stood near the present church.

With a 19th-century creeper-covered cottage providing residential quarters for the teacher, a schoolroom has been added to one side of the building to offer educational facilities to the young children

Specimens of 'Little Trees', a species of deep water coral so named because of its shape, are sometimes washed up on the beach at Crackington.

This still stands on the north-east of the town and is the only one of Rye's four gates to survive. It is part of the fortifica- tions authorised by Edward III in the 14th century.

In 1779 Abraham Darby II's Coalbrookdale Ironworks cast the ribs of this, the world's first iron bridge.