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The harbour is packed with an assortment of sailing craft, including fishing smacks, brigs and sailing barges.

The photographer is standing on the Mansion House balcony looking directly at the Royal Exchange. Proclamations announcing a new monarch or a dissolution of Parliament are read from the steps.

These two form part of the Cove, which was possibly a shrine, in the northern inner circle of the Avebury henge.

This is the New Town, the railway end of Swindon, quite close to the GWR works and their workers' housing. Note the tram lines, overhead wires and the boy with his hoop.

This church, with its seemingly unfinished tower, is an important example of 12th-century architecture. The round-headed doorways and windows are typically Norman.

The parish church of St Mary stands boldly on its mound. It was rebuilt in 1781, and the tower and spire were rebuilt a hundred years later. Note the huge size of the windows.

This establishment was one of a number of interesting old hostelries still standing. Another was the thatched-roofed Black Horse.

Of dozens of ferries that used to exist between Ross and Chepstow, only two (including this one) survive.

Chapel Street is part of the A4 London to Bath road. Before the M4 motorway, when this picture was taken, this was the main route to the west out of the capital.

A walk down High Street from Westgate to the Buttercross takes the sightseer along one of the most ancient streets in the realm.

The extended garden of the house is now a forecourt for a modern hotel built on the site of the old rock garden, which used to be the kitchen garden with glasshouses.

The barracks blocks were connected by a huge glass roof, the purpose of which was to enable the troops to engage in drill during wet weather.

The barn and outbuilding seen here were demolished in the 1940s as part of the long-overdue restoration programme.

For much of the 1800s and up to the First World War, Farringdon Forge was run by a father and son - John and James Eade.

Once known as Morton Foliot, the parish of Castle Morton runs a long way up to the Malvern Hills. St Gregory's Church dates from the 12th to the 14th centuries.

The late Norman church, with its tower surmounted by a 13th-century shingled spire, was built around 1160 and stands in its small churchyard shaded by a selection of conifer trees.

Before agriculture became mechanised, large numbers of people were employed on the land; in Gloucestershire many of them lived in tied farm cottages such as these.

A picture of perfect peace and tranquillity is shown here, but Woodchester was one of the places where riots broke out during the early 19th century industrial revolution when weavers and

This crowded beach beautifully illustrates the beach fashions of the 1920s: ladies wear summer dresses with straw hats, while the boys and gentlemen retain flat caps, jackets and trousers (rolled up

We are looking towards the imposing building of the Presbyterian church in the distance and Groundwell Road.

The chapel, at the abbey's east end, was completed in 1512 after ten years of building work.

Here the porch gleams in contrast with the rest of the west end's sooty facade.

Rousdon, now part of Combpyne civil parish, nestles above the great coastal landslip between Axmouth and Lyme Regis.

An old guidebook stressed the health benefits of a holiday in Weymouth: 'Weymouth is much more open than the majority of seaside resorts, and is almost surrounded by salt water.This results in an air