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The now-demolished birthplace of the economist Thomas Malthus, who prophesised the huge growth in human population and the need for birth control.

Early inhabitants of the High Street faced a range of fierce punishments if they transgressed the law, including flogging, mutilation and death by hanging.

This view shows the picturesque weatherboarded cottages that still line the southern side of Park Lane as it curves towards the junction with Malden Road.

Here children tentatively set out on a journey across the boating lake at Shoeburyness. This playground area was close to the sea.

The fishing off Sandgate was very good, with catches of plaice, codling, conger, and pouting the most common.

A fine selection of Edwardian pinafores, knickerbockers and caps is on display here.

A bus with solid rubber tyres heads towards its Camberley destination on a road that was not made up.

The land was purchased in 1801 for the grand sum of £8,000 from William Pitt, who had bought the land from one of his nieces.

Here we have a magnificent view of the broad sweep of the breezy seafront at Dover, with the castle overshadowing the town from four hundred feet above, and the Roman Pharos clearly visible beside the

The steam ferry boat of 1870 makes its presence felt as the smoke drifts across the woodland of Claiffe Heights; it has apparently just left the slipway beside the Ferry Hotel.

Chipping Ongar is so called because of its ancient 'cheaping', or market, and is still an important shopping centre. Until recent times, Ongar was the easterly terminus of the Central Line.

As the farmer leads his two draught horses along the road, the Convent of St Clare can be seen in the background.

In this picture we see most of Conwy's drum-towers, each of which is almost identical in size and plan.

Originally an inn, the house on the left of the picture is where Jane Austen lived during the last years of her life. The house was then called 'The Late Inn'.

Grafham Water is a reservoir for Anglia Water, constructed between 1962 and 1965, covering 2½ square miles - one of the largest lakes in England.

For away-from-it-all families, the open parkland extension of the Strand was ideal for a quiet riverside picnic, where the children could don bathing trunks and enjoy the unique delight of Medway mud

The union flags are out: perhaps the local people were celebrating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth.

Milford on Sea's church, along with the one at Brockenhurst, was a survivor of the forest clearances and receives a mention in the Domesday Book.

The Green was, and still is, one of the more picturesque parts of Seaton Carew; the houses were mostly built in the early 19th century.

The spread of the holiday industry along the north-east Norfolk coast is reflected in this mixture of mobile caravans and fixed chalets.

Charlotte died at the age of 21. Had she lived, she would have been Queen instead of Victoria.

Matlock Bank in the centre spreads up the eastern bank of the Derwent.

We can see the school chapel beyond the open gates to the left of the Butter Cross. This area, including the row of cottages, was known as Chapel Close.

The village of Eastham is about one mile inland from the River Mersey, but one of its claims to fame is that it has the largest canal locks in the country - these give entry to the Manchester Ship Canal