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This is a swagger Arts-and-Crafts style house of 1888, with a welter of mullions and transoms, coving and gables. St Ethelbert's House now has a suitably ornate use as Boswell's brasserie/bar.

Before traffic calming started, the central shopping area of this large suburb had already seen some changes: note the 1960s building encroaching and replacing the Victorian terraces - some of them have

Emery Down stands on the frontier of some of the wildest scenery in the New Forest. Badgers live deep in the woods, deer can be seen by the patient watcher, and buzzards circle overhead.

Old Mote House, its predecessor, was the childhood home of Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492), mother of the 'princes in the tower'.

A more modern view of St Ives, with flower boxes gracing the windows of the houses and with smart whitewashed walls. Today, there is a very fine art gallery here, the Wills Lane Gallery.

Here we see an attractive row of thatched cottages on Melbourn's High Street.

Ipswich's Grammar School was founded in the beginning of the 15th century.

The new shops on Broadway are on the site of the former outside market. Also just visible on the left are the new Cornhill shops, which are on the site of the Odeon cinema.

Robert Wynn was a prominent gentleman and merchant, and his house displayed all the good taste that would be expected of a man of such standing.

Sheffield Polytechnic was formed in 1969 with the amalgamation of the Sheffield Colleges of Technology and Art; the new institution was housed in purpose-built facilities on land between Howard

Cheltenham's Town Hall was built in the fashionable Baroque style during the reign of Edward VII.

This photograph shows the village of Streatley on the left bank of the Thames. An old wooden bridge linked the village with Goring on the opposite bank until it was replaced in the 1920s.

Just before the turn of the century, Datchet suffered serious flooding when the swollen Thames caused a pond in the centre of the village to overflow.

At the close of the 19th century, Alton bore the stamp of an old country market town, with its bustling streets and striking shop fronts. Opposite the King's Head is the town's market square.

Richmond Council, despite vociferous local opposition, struck a deal to sell the site to their preferred developers, the property group Dawnay Day, who own most of the shops and flats on the south

TODAY IT IS still possible to see some vestiges of buildings that were known to those who lived through the English Civil War almost 400 years ago; one example is Pennies, a half-timbered house

This was the office of the Harbour Commissioners, a body of senior ship owners, shippers and merchants; they did away with the small docks to provide spaces now occupied by Queens, Albert and Corporation

These one-man shows, which reached the height of their popularity in Victorian times, were based on the character of Pulcinella, the impudent hunchback from the Commedia dell'Arte, which originated

He described the scene in verse: 'Groves of pine on either hand To break the blast of winter, stand; And further on, the heavy channel Tumbles a breaker on chalk and sand'.

To the left of Carfax there used to be a 'pennyless bench' where beggars sat and women sold butter.

There are over 130 lakes in the Water Park, making it the largest man-made complex of its kind in Britain.

Lose Hill, at 1,563ft, is the eastern extremity of a fine ridge which runs from Mam Tor.

Taxal Lodge was a boarding school on the outskirts of the village. Note the single-storey extension and the fire escape ladder from the upper bedroom in the gable of the main building.

Two farm carts make their way down the drive, which is lined on one side with fir trees and on the other with the battlemented brick wall which is generally believed to form part of the original garden