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The parish church of St Laurence is originally 12th-century with a 13th-century chancel.

Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.

After 60 years on the throne, Queen Victoria did not have the strength to climb the steps of St Paul's Cathedral for her Jubilee thanksgiving service, so it was held outside.

Fleet Street had been 'the street of ink' ever since Caxton's assistant Wynkyn de Worde set up his press next to St Bride's Church in 1500.

William Wrenn had only just arrived in Alton when this picture of his shop, on the right, was taken.

Stanford's rectory was the birthplace in 1775 of the author and moralist Mrs Sherwood, whose novel 'The Fairchild Family' was a popular improving text with the more rigidly censorious readers of Regency

The curve of the river forces bargemen to make a skilful manoeuvre into the lock, which allows boats to travel past the weir.

Southwold Common stands between the town and the marshes, and is lined on its northern edge with a range of private dwellings.

The red sandstone parish church of St Mary was built by Roger Growdon and dedicated in 1450 by Bishop Lacey, whose name can still be seen on pub signs around Devon.

The flagpole still stands guard over the War Memorial and the flag is flown on appropriate occasions.

The Broad Hinton (or Hackpen) white horse is on Hackpen Down between Avebury and Swindon on the Marlborough Downs. It is amateurish in design, and the least impressive of all the Wiltshire horses.

Note the small monkey-puzzle tree in the foreground - this was one of the most popular of all exotic trees planted in parks in Victorian times.

In 1913, the castle was overrun with actors rather than sheep as Marten`s Tower and the Main Gatehouse looked down on the making of the film Ivanhoe.

At first this view looks typical of many streets in small towns all over the country; and yet just behind the buildings on the left is Alsager Mere, which is most attractive.

This village in the valley of the River Stour has, in fact, two greens: a large open space before the church, and behind it, a small triangular green forming the heart of this rural community round which

In the late 17th century the local freeholders and copyholders were happy to accept enclosure of their open-field system, and came to a private arrangement with Robert Williams of Balderton manor.

One of the few places on the north coast with access to a fine sandy beach and increasingly popular with surfers, Porthtowan is seen here in its early years of development and is hardly recognisable today

This working port is at the centre of the sweep of Mount's Bay.

This busy shopping street reveals a wealth of fine old wooden shopfronts.

The boat is just starting out from the north end of the Waterway, with the Figure 8 Switchback, the tennis courts, and the 1930s concrete 'castle ruins' in the background.

We can see the horse carriage gently manoeuvring out of Brook Street, only pausing for a few solitary cars.

In 1934 Leeds City Council embarked on a programme to clear 30,000 slums.

Not something that would happen today with any degree of safety, a gentleman poses for the camera in the middle of the street.

Salcombe is a small port at the mouth of the Kingsbridge estuary. It is so sheltered and mild that even oranges have been known to grow there.