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This new viaduct across the Tamar has just been opened, linking Plymouth to the district around Gunnislake and Callington.

High Street North is a relatively undistinguished and typical London suburban shopping street: the exuberance of the Town Hall complex is forgotten.

This wonderful timber-framed building dates from the 1400s. It sits opposite the church, and was once the vicarage. It has also been known as the Red House.

On weekdays, the main railway line from the Rhondda valley to Barry carried coal to the docks, but it was used on Sundays and bank holidays by excursion trains to the seaside.

The brook here somehow appears to be little cared for, with its chipped concrete posts arrayed along weedy banks.

A yacht in full sail races past a well-known landmark on the lower Bure, pulling its dinghy behind. A motor cruiser chugs its way along the north bank.

The roundabout was removed in 1979 to make way for a new road junction.

We are looking up New Road, with W C King & Sons, ironmongers, on the left. Further up we can see the sign of the Black Horse. According to the deeds, this was built in November 1843 as a beer house.

Market stalls were supposed to be erected and removed either side of market days, but inevitably it became easier to leave them stacked for use (left).

Dated 1923, the neo-Georgian terrace of shops and flats was built to coincide with the arrival of the Northern Line in that same year.

The Wilts and Dorset Bank on the left, now the Natwest, was almost new when the picture was taken. It had entrances in both George Street and Russell Street.

This 1960s view is a taken a little further north from the station, with the entrance to Grove Road half-way along on the left.

Market Hill House, Grade II* listed (centre), has had a variety of uses over the years: a doctor's house, a dormitory for St Mary's School and bank premises.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.

On the extreme left is Palmers, with John Bull tyres and cycle lamp batteries on display in the window.

At the time this photograph was taken, Ulverston was still a busy commercial port linked to the River Leven by the Ulverston Canal.

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.

Revesby is an estate village, and the Estate Office on is the nearby A153 main road. The village was laid out in the 1850s around a huge green.

A train on the Smitham railway bridge adds interest to this photograph of the northern end of Brighton Road shopping area.

The parish of Kibworth originally bracketed together Kibworth Beauchamp, Kibworth Harcourt and Smeeton Westerby, sharing the mother church of St Wilfrid.

This view looks across the river to the south bank, now a much changed view. The Picturedome at this time was showing 'Madame Peacock' daily at 3, 7 and 9 o'clock.

At the west end of the High Street, London Road curves away north-west downhill.

Following the death of the owner, the site was acquired by the town and first opened to the public in 1960.

This building is still standing in Town Street, and was built in the early 1880s in local stone quarried at Golden Bank.