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A view along the north basin of the lake, including the islands of Belle Isle, Crow Holme, Maiden Holme and the two 'Lilies of the Valley'.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

Standing beyond the market area of High Town, near to the Shire Hall, St Peter's is the civic church of Hereford.

The 17th-century mill at Harlow was part of the manor of Harlowbury. It was the main source of power to grind corn and other purposes for the parish at that time.

Behind are Big ben and the Houses of Parliament.

Apart from All Saints, little of architectural quality has survived, except for a few rather handsome houses, including the Rectory of 1808 and the Old Hall.

We see the war memorial just four years after its completion in honour of those from Poole who .

Much of this area is now submerged under the waters of Fernworthy reservoir, built in 1936-42 to supply Torquay.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

This is a peaceful village scene, with an inn on the far right of the wide road. Visitors come here to see the lovely 15th-century church of St Leonard.

The grand Regency façade of the Stamford Hotel looks rather out of place squeezed in among the other buildings of St Mary's Street.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.

This Anglican church was built at a cost of £3,000 in the early 1860s. Sir George Elliott, who funded most of the cost, held a sumptuous banquet to mark its opening.

Lying at the foot of wooded limestone slopes to the east of Cringlebarrow, these rendered stone cottages, with pronounced dripstones protecting their windows and doorways from the rain, are typical of

Fortunately, there is no traffic as the farmer herds his small herd of cows in the middle of the road at the bottom of Town Hill beside the Peterville Inn.

This lovely village is said to command one of the finest views in Kent across the Weald towards Ashdown Forest. It sits alongside the Surrey boundary, two miles north of Edenbridge.

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

The 13th-century fortress at Inverlochy is a quadrangular enceinte with a round tower at each of the angles; the largest of these is known as Comyn's Tower, and forms the donjon.

Brimington is one of a number of similar former coal mining villages to the east of Chesterfield, and today villages like this are seeking a new identity.

One of the resort's more enduring pleasures, the children's section of Southport Zoo truly gave happiness to many hundreds of thousands.

Now one of the busiest road junctions in the rural region, in 1952 the centre of Woburn was a study in tranquillity.

Otterton has some of the best examples of cob and thatch cottages in Devon. Many of the homes we see in this photograph date from between the 15th and 18th centuries.

The monument stands in the centre of an area known as the Sanctuary by the west door of the abbey and on the site of the abbey gateway.