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In the meantime, development, in the main of a residential nature, continued to spread north and east across Portsea Island.

Three of the famous Liverpool ferry boats are leaving the landing stage.

Sheltering Blakeney from the sea is a 4 mile spit of land called Blakeney Point, a nature reserve since 1912, and home to nesting colonies of terns, oystercatchers and redshanks.

Here we see Hever prior to Lord Astor's creation of a Tudor-style village adjacent to the castle. A horse-drawn wagon comes down the lane, and to the left is the spire of St Peter's Church.

North of Main Street, the dignified 1950s council housing was built on The Leys field.

In this panoramic view of the Golden Valley, the mill chimneys are visible in the background; the workers' cottages are on the lower slopes of the hill, and the canal winds its way along the valley

This picture of the square at the south end of Dublin Street, is interesting in that it shows the original market cross, which was repositioned here when the Rossmore Memorial was erected in the Diamond

This view looks down on Reynard's Cave and the River Dove. The wooded slopes in the background are on the Staffordshire bank of the Dove, and rise to Air Cottage on the top of the hill opposite.

Goosehill Bridge crosses Peakshole Water, which emerges from the depths of Peak Cavern - its enclosing limestone cliffs can be seen in the background.

Sandgate lies a mile west of Folkestone.

The mock timbered gables of Red House at Darley Dale are now home to a horse and coaching museum, which runs coach-and-fours through the grounds of nearby Chatsworth House for visitors during

We go along the Frimley Green Road, and arrive at Frimley Green, with Wharf Road to the left of the picture. The shop and the house next door have been replaced by a modern parade of shops.

The shop of J Singleton, where you could shop and also acquire a haircut, is no longer a general-purpose shop.

This extensive and grim asylum is a reminder of how earlier generations treated the mentally-ill by locking them away, often far from their homes and families.

Work on the palace began during the reign of James VI, when the north-west tower was built up against the nave of Holyrood Abbey.

The well kept gardens and fine central portico, supported on six columns, lend a touch of class to the imposing bulk of the Town Hall designed by Bradshaw, Gass & Hope and built between 1937 and 1938

Weymouth is made by its setting: the graceful conformation of Weymouth Bay has often been compared favourably with the Bay of Naples.

The original hotel, a jumble of buildings, was certainly tidied up out of all recognition.

The fine, large town church is situated up an alley at the east end of Market Street and behind the market-place. Only remnants of its medieval tower survive.

There was talk in 2001 of upgrading the market street for the comfort of the silent majority, the town's pedestrians.

A fine study of the cathedral with the huge west front dominating the scene. Perhaps the most famous symbol of the Anglican church, it is a dominant landmark for many miles around.

This is a river-side view of the huge, crescent-shaped weir constructed above Arkwright's Masson Mill on the River Derwent, with the tree-topped tor of Willersley Rocks filling the background

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.

Winster Rocks, also known as Wyns Tor, is an outcrop of Dolomitic limestone to the south of the village, on what is now a long distance footpath known as the Limestone Way.