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In 1603 two residents, John and Kit Wright, were part of the Gunpowder Plot with Guy Fawkes.

Once the railway arrived in 1885, the manorial village of Scalby grew into a genteel Victorian suburb of Scarborough.

This is the view the big houses saw, with the new rows of houses which had helped to add nearly 50% to the town's population in ten years.

Though only a couple of miles to the north of Newcastle, Gosforth had a character and identity of its own.

The coming of the railway to Broxbourne in 1840 had further stimulated the growth of the village, and demand from London-bound commuters heading for Liverpool Street and St.

This reredos is a modern addition depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds (left) and the Entombment of Christ.

Mansfield lies some 14 miles north of Nottingham and to the west of Sherwood Forest.

Before the advent of the car moved shoppers to out-of- town stores, main streets such as this displayed a rich multiplicity of goods, with regional shops trading beside the more well-known

Some of the cottages in St Nicholas Terrace, which is located to the north of the church, are 18th-century, and one of them is dated 1771.

Even though it was obviously a busy time of day, it hardly seems necessary to have a Keep Left sign at this point.

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

This is another of Benhilton's 1870 villas in attractive wooded grounds. By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school.

This pretty scene with its unmetalled road and air of tranquillity could almost prevail in modern Totternhoe.

A tranquil setting for a fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, with its solid buttressed and battle- mented tower rising in four stages.

Cobham is architecturally not the equal of the similarly named Chobham.

This Wednesday morning 9 o'clock photograph is the first view we have in this book of Sheep Street in the far corner of the Square.

The quiet village of Hillam lies just to the south of Monk Fryston, with its old Manor House, now a popular hotel and restaurant.

Awnings protect the shop fronts on this sunny day. A wide variety of building styles can be seen in the row on the right of the road.

In earlier days this route marked the only highway in and out of the Forest from this direction.

Timber gables and full-height faceted bay windows create an imposing range of shops and flats of the early 20th century.

We are looking east along a lively Brighton Beach towards the unfinished Palace Pier at the close of the 19th century.

The town has an important place in industrial history, for it is the southern end of the railway line on which the first steam locomotive ran in 1804.

Bembridge, the easternmost settlement on the Isle of Wight, became popular in late Victorian times as a centre for golf, being the headquarters of the Isle of Wight Golf Club.

A penny-farthing can be seen leaning against the front of the cycle stores in the centre of Burley, which John Wise described in 1863 as 'one of the most primitive of (New) Forest hamlets'.