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Cheltenham acquired a reputation as a high- quality shopping centre towards the end of Queen Victoria's reign.

A view of the spacious harbour, with assorted sailing craft. After the packet-boats moved to Dun Laoghaire, Howth settled down to life as a fishing harbour.

Situated about six miles south-west of Westport, it rises just over 2,500 ft from the south shore of Clew Bay.

The Ypres Tower of c1250 was sold in 1430 to John de Ypres as a house. This is inexplicable, bearing in mind the French raid of 1377. A prison from 1518 to 1865, it is now a museum.

A splendid view of the full length of the pier and again a very well used beach. The long queue by the pier entrance suggests an ice cream kiosk!

The Harrow stands on the road to North Ockendon.

The Bridgewater Canal flows through the pretty town of Lymm in Cheshire. An empty pair of boats (the one in front is the 'Clio') head towards Manchester, probably to collect coal.

Arthur Trevorrow is throwing a jug on the wheel; beside him are various examples of his work, beautifully hand-decorated with slip in waves, whorls and dots.

Victorian writers believed Crummock Water to be one of the most beautiful in the Lakes.

Broadwater is the old parish on which Worthing was built; its church is the mother church of the town. It was an old market under the Camois family, and is now a district of Worthing.

Here we see a rural scene in a fold of the Downs - now much more wooded and obscured by trees. A stack yard is in the foreground, with round and rectangular corn ricks.

The buildings on the left of the mid 19th century, and the stucco one on the right, Murkett Brothers, Motor Agents, have been demolished.

Note how the 14th century north arcade of Polyphant stone contrasts with the more lofty granite south arcade which was built a century later.

The half-timbered Kings Head inn in the background recalls the coaching age: Northleach was on the main London, Oxford, Gloucester and South Wales road (the main A40 road now by-passes the

Fine 'Norfolk Red' brick-and-flint work is evident on all the buildings.

Inland from Bridlington is the village of Carnaby, with its 13th-century church of St John the Baptist. The village grew around the estate of Boynton Hall.

Built around the massive Sprotborough Hall, village life centred on the landowners, the Copley family.

This 15th-century church built of squared ragstone blocks has a tower 75 feet high standing amid a number of chestnut trees.

A team of farm-workers undertakes the laborious task of spraying a field of hops with liquid soap, or possibly a copper solution, to ward off insects and fungal disease as the crop nears harvesting.

Further east, the thatched shop on the left is nowadays a private house, The Old House. Beyond is another thatched cottage, The White House.

The camera looks north-south along the High Street as it crosses the Leicester to Nottingham railway, and at a not unattractive group of houses and shops ranging in date from the 18th

Gedling is well known for the 14th-century spire of its parish church, about a quarter of a mile from where this picture was taken.

This brief tour ignores the Georgian houses of High Pavement, the castle and the famous Lace Market area to descend to the River Trent.

Only the clothes worn by the children give a clue to the date of this photograph. The vista has hardly changed in 60 years.