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This tranquil street of handsome houses fringing the river was built in 1708.

Loch Ranza is a sea-loch that forms an inlet of the Kilbrannan Sound. This view was photographed near the northern tip of the island.

Old vehicles in the centre of Ludham village have their spare wheels attached to the side of the bonnet. The right-hand car has a 'dickey' seat at the back, closed in the photograph.

Many new buildings sprang up in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Civic Centre of 1965 and the Technical Library of 1959. However, it was the unsightly steel works which really put Corby on the map.

Dominating this photograph are the tall Moot Hall, now the Daventry Museum and tourist information centre, and the monument, which was erected by members of the National Hunt committee in memory of Edmund

This is a classic English village setting, with rows of cottages overlooking a green and an old red telephone box.

This photograph was taken at the junction of Silver Street and Oxford Street. The first building on the right is now a cafe, but its overall appearance is much the same.

The ride cost 6d and lasted for one complete revolution of the wheel. However, every time one of the cars reached the bottom the wheel was stopped while it was unloaded and reloaded.

Founded in 1427 by the Bishop of Lincoln, Lincoln College has a chequered history.

Another view of the Market Cross, this time looking north, shows its knobbly crockets to their best advantage. The cross at the top of the shaft was lost many years before.

All the buildings on the left have been replaced by the modern Swansgate shopping centre. Other change includes the demolition of the stuccoed Midland Hotel on the right.

The whole of the shop extension has been removed, the chimney has gone from the house behind the shop, and it has all been redeveloped.

The river Wensum on the edge of Norwich was – and is to this day – a popular boating river. There is an elegant clinker-built yacht in the foreground, and assorted rowing boats all around.

The railway finally came to the village in 1902 with the opening of a line to Skipton. Here we see a quiet moment on the banks of the Wharfe.

Here we see a knife grinder at work in this atmospheric picture of a deserted Hartfield. It is a delightful village on the northern edge of Ashdown Forest above the river Medway.

At the time when this photograph was taken, the village green at Malham was the scene of regular sheep sales attended by farmers from the surrounding fells.

This vast Victorian hotel, with its half-timbered detailing, is a feature of the High Street.

At the time when this photograph was taken the village green at Malham was the scene of regular sheep sales attended by farmers from the surrounding fells.

Comparing these views gives an inkling of the decline that was to befall the street in later years.

At that time the group of buildings was a smallholding with a bar. To the far right there was a barn, and the bar was situated to the right of the central farmhouse.

A chemist and tobacconist stand on the left, while on the right near the parked car is a petrol pump - of course, it would not be allowed so close to buildings now.

The tram lift saves a long, tiring climb to the top of the hill.

The 'No Waiting' sign suggests that car parking has become something of a problem. In the middle distance that other scourge of modern life, the television aerial, is beginning to make an appearance.

The Village 1909 A handsome farm cart stands in the yard of a timber-framed two-storey building, in this small hamlet on the road between Tenterden and Hythe.