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Although resented at first, the State Management Scheme soon became a badge of the city and brought many benefits.

The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.

Princess Street is running away to the left, with the big bay window on the corner of the building.

This village is referred to as 'Torintone' in the Domesday book, but during the reign of Edward II it, and much of the surrounding land, came into the possession of Roger de Thornton, whose only daughter

Perched on its cliff overlooking the rivers Teme and Corve, Ludlow was built in a strategic location on the Welsh borders.

Following the building of St Anne's, Ansdell and Fairhaven were slower to develop, remaining an area of woodland and sandhills.

The Walmer Stores in the centre of this photo has its blinds down.

In the distance is the spire of St John the Evangelist's, completed in 1868 to serve the expanded north of the town.

The town of St Helens derives its name from the early chapel dedicated to the saint.

St Mary's with its late 13th-century tower dominates the east side of the village green. On the south side of the tower is a recess which may once have held a monument.

In the far north-west of the county, and almost in Derbyshire, this village must deserve small town status.

The battlemented tower of St Bartholomew's (left) just shows above the row of rather good brick and tile cottages, into which the post office has been thrust.

There is also very great trade for coal which they export to all the ports of Somerset, Devon and Cornwall and also to Ireland itself so that one sometimes sees a hundred sail of ships at a time loading

The honour of being entitled Hertfordshire's tidiest village for 1960 went to the village of Hunsdon near Ware.

Fortunately for the hotel, it has been taken over by a group of local businessmen, and it looks much, much better now.

We can just see the second Hunsdon public house, the Fox and Hounds, in the distance on the left, with houses in Tanner's Way (on the opposite side of the road) behind.

Pennard stands high above a tidal creek some eight miles west-south-west of Swansea.

The 15th-century building in the foreground has had a variety of uses, including that of a public house named The Cricketers which ran from the mid 19th century until its closure in 1909.

Looking southwards from the Haymarket into Gallowtree Gate: it is the building immediately to the left of the Clock Tower which is of interest.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the

We are looking along Chequer Street towards Honey Hill; the shape of the community has changed little.

Ascend the clock tower of St Nicholas's parish church and see six of the county's major rivers - the Humber, the Don, the Went, the Ouse, the Trent and the Aire.

The three-storey building of Boots the Chemist at Nos 15 and 16 Market Place is not as old as it seems.

We are looking from the fields to the east of the college. The right-hand building is the east arm of the three-sided 1850s main college building.