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Only 30 years later, it has become just another branch of suburbia. Some picturesque cottages were destroyed to widen these roads and create the roundabout, which now dominates the view.

Two helmeted local 'bobbies' stride towards the camera in another view of the Market Place in Chesterfield, looking up the High Street towards the famous Crooked Spire of the parish church of St Mary

This is another small bay with good shelter and fine sands - here only two boats were built. Until the 1850s there was just an inn and a cottage in the bay, with a limekiln nearby.

The old flaming torch sign (left) marks the approach to the village school in Holmfirth Road, Meltham, another Pennine edge town founded on the textile industry.

Hence comes the expression a 'Derby game' when two local teams play one another. The school has a charter dating back to the 16th century.

Moving north to the end of Milsom Street, we see George Street, another good street laid out around 1761.

Shortly afterwards the bandstand was removed to this spot from its position on the promenade. It was refurbished and re- opened in July 1990.

The Jew's House is another of Lincoln's surviving early medieval stone houses: the city has more than most.

Here we have a wonderfully evocative sign of the times: a beach scene in high summer and not a glimpse of bare ?esh. Cleethorpes liked its helter-skelters, as it had another on the beach.

A wealth of timbers, tiles, gables, chimney-stacks and a thatched gateway make another attractive High Road house north of Ruffetts Cottages. It is now obscured by trees and hedges.

Heavy bombing during the Second World War led to the redesign of the traffic system and yet another rebuilding of the pub.

Opposite is the swinging sign of another inn—the Nelson's Head.

Another wide street, and also laid out as a market, it has many good stone houses, including almshouses of 1877 on the left and several pubs.

This excellent view of the shops on the side opposite the Market Hall shows an attractive variety of architecture.

In November 1711 Lord Mohun fought a duel in Hyde Park against the Duke of Hamilton, in which both men were killed. It was not Mohun's first duel.

Now only a hamlet, this village was once well-known for the quarrying of Bethersden marble; apart from being used locally, it was used for interior work in both Canterbury and Rochester cathedrals, and

Another national figure was Dewsbury's only MP to become a Cabinet Minister. Walter Runciman, the Liberal MP, headed the Education Board in 1908 and was at the Board of Trade in 1914.

Situated between Hythe and Folkestone, Sandgate Castle was yet another of Henry VIII's fortifications; it was built with rounded bastions in the German style.

Despite its closeness to the sea, the open-air baths are a popular attraction, but the majority of patrons seem to prefer watching from the poolside or from deckchairs on the balcony above.

One of the county's earliest churches, it was founded in the 7th century and has several Saxon crosses, one carved with both pagan and Christian symbols.

This farming village is not far from Silkstone. Most of the cottages were built in stone from the Greenmoor Quarry.

Yet another ancient cross base is located at Mitton Green. So often, these were from the original market cross.

A few miles to the north of Chipping Campden lies Mickleton, a small town that displays both the limestone buildings of the Cotswolds and the traditional half-timbered style of the Vale.

Another Elizabeth, the Queen, stayed here soon afterwards.