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The reconstruction narrowed the street, which once had a row of shops down the middle. To the left is the spire of St Mary's Church.

It prospered thanks to coal mining, and packhorses carried the coal down the street to the Fosse Way. Nowadays it is a prosperous commuting area, and modern semis punctuate the old stone cottages.

A dark spine of conifers runs down the middle of the long garden, which is just a narrow strip of land between Plymouth Road and the cemetery.

This is a narrow street of 18th- and 19th-century houses leading down to the harbour.

Coastal Suffolk may not be the first place you would think of for a skyscraper, but the charming Tudor redbrick folly Freston Tower could fit the bill, albeit in a scaled-down manner.

Famous for its liquorice 'cakes' or sweets, Pontefract is an ancient market town at the junction of the Rivers Aire and Calder, south of Castleford.

From the arches of the Georgian Guildhall the camera looks down White Hart Street. The buildings on the right replace medieval market place encroachment.

Much of its architecture dates from the 19th century, a reminder that the Victorians made this island their own as a holiday and residential location.

The shop awnings are down and the men are wearing their boaters. Smartly-dressed holidaymakers are wandering up the slope from the Promenade, perhaps to take a genteel cup of tea at the Royal Hotel.

The two cyclists meandering down the middle of the road would not be able to do so for long today!

This view down St Giles Street has the Guildhall tower in the distance and the 1938 Co-op on the right, a building in Art Deco style.

Like Dawley, Oakengates sits on old coal mines and iron works, which have all now closed down.

There are 99 steps from the Pontsarn Hotel down to the Blue Pool.

Devoran developed in the 19th century when a mineral railway was built to carry copper ore from the mines around Redruth down to a port at the head of Restronguet Creek, just visible at

High Salvington, formerly a hamlet on the downs, has now been engulfed by Worthing.

Because the difficult alkaline downland soil yielded indifferent crops, for centuries the South Downs were vast sheepwalks; by the 18th century there were 400,000 ewes grazing between Eastbourne and Hampshire

The village is famous for a charming myth which suggests that if the mist in the beechwoods on the nearby Downs rolled westwards towards Cocking, then rain was on the way.

Felixstowe Cottage, on the left, is now called Above Town Cottage, and the taller timber-framed house on the right is known as The Downs House.

Further down Tuck's Lane, on the right, is the Blue Boar public house, selling Morrell's ales. R D Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, was born in the village.

There are two Benthams, High and Lower, and this view looks down Mount Pleasant from the village cross in High Bentham.

The building falling down was Well's butchers, since cleared for the Loders Arms car park.

Later the house became a butcher`s: older residents recall blood dribbling down into the picturesque village-pond.

The civic fashion was to lay down long promenades, like this one at Colwyn Bay, to allow the leisured classes to promenade and take their sea air without having to trudge through sand

These stages had to be manhandled up and down the beach as the tide went out and came in.