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Until the late 13th century, the town of Chepstow appears to have had no defences on its landward side.

Five years after the end of the Second World War, there was still much evidence of the severe bombing around the cathedral.

Pub, children's playground, restaurant, tea room - the Combe Cellars is all of these. It is built on a spit of land to the south side of the Teign estuary, and can be reached by only one road.

This is one of the final stretches of golden sand that once graced the foreshore at Parkgate before the estuary totally silted up and salt marsh encroached. Parkgate was a popular yachting centre.

Stevenage was the first of a series of post-Second World War new towns ringing London. Initially, Knebworth had been suggested, but it was felt that railway provision was better at Stevenage.

A set of stone steps leading nowhere might seem a rather odd thing to have on the roadside.

Now in Cornwall, Mount Edgecumbe, from where this picture was taken, was once part of Devon. The nearby vil- lage of Kingsand still has a stone showing where the boundary used to lie.

One of the most famous prehistoric structures in England, these three upright stones, surmounted by a capstone almost thirteen feet long, formed the central compartment of a Neolithic burial chamber.

This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking

St Mary's Church was built between 1875-77 on the site of a former cotton factory in Buttermarket Street, close to the working-class districts which provided its congregation.

The post office and general store were essential parts of village life, so not surprisingly they feature on many of Frith's postcards; these were later sold at the post office counter and the village store

Road traffic was much lighter in the 1950s, but even then Sankey Street represented a major bottleneck on the main A57 Liverpool to Manchester Road.

The school was built on the Green in 1872 at a cost of £700, with accommodation for 70 children. The side windows have gone and have been replaced by six sky-lights in the roof.

Here we see the front of the Feathers Hotel on the right. The building was erected in 1565, although the top storey was added later.

The building has a great number of vertical beams not much more than a hand's span apart.

Built on the site of the Old Rectory, the Basildon tractor plant was finally completed on 20 February 1964. It covered 60 acres of the 100-acre site, and had 1,360,000 square feet of buildings.

A large number of the buildings in the picture are now Grade II listed, but it is not likely that the unkempt state of the High Street in 1955 did much to foster civic pride.

Lying at the estuary of the River Helford, this small port was important in days gone by, for it supported the tin mining industry.

'A grey town and a grim town, pervaded with the unlovely spirit of its fearful prison.' Thus Arthur Mee captures the forbidding character of this remote community, beset by fogs and rain.

In a bid to recapture the public's imagination and recreate the excitement and glamour of cross-channel travel, Campbell's were to introduce a hovercraft service in the summer of 1963.

The route from Eastleigh to the Channel Islands was formerly the most popular journey from the airport with 80% of air traffic.

The cottages on the left of this photograph have all gone now, and in their place is a landscaped public garden area with trees and bushes.

Jesus Church was designed in the form of a cross, in Gothic style, with tall lancet windows in the nave, chancel and transept.

Rothwell's most famous landmark, the old Market House, is partly visible on the right of this photograph. Around its cornice are Latin inscriptions and 90 coats-of-arms of landed families.