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The Recreation Ground, known as 'the Rec', was purchased by public subscription started in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.

The Harbour, or Sands, station dominated Ramsgate beach from the time it was constructed.

The abbey, the oldest building in Minster, is to be found at the lower end of the village.

Those factories were especially renowned for the quality of their Liberty cottons.

Although still firmly in Derbyshire, Long Eaton has almost been swallowed up by the suburbs of nearby Nottingham, across the River Trent to the east.

The author, who owns a touring caravan, has mixed opinions on this view of Cromer from East Runton.

This is Fred and Joan Shepherd (themselves Dunmow residents) being carried in a replica of the ancient Flitch Chair.

Tradition alleges that Athelhampton is the site of a palace of the Saxon King Athelstan, though the present house is largely Tudor.

Yetminster rather resembles one of those lovely stone built villages in the Cotswolds, and has an unusual look for a Dorset settlement.

Fletcher's House, on the top right, is said to be the birthplace in 1576 of the dramatist John Fletcher of Beaumont and Fletcher fame; he also collaborated with Shakespeare on 'Two Noble Kinsmen'.

East Dean's simple war memorial fits well on the green of this flint-built village.

In the 1960s, camping was the most important of all scouting activities, and Scout and Cub groups - no Guides until the late 1960s - brought their own tents and other equipment to the open

Beaumont trained at Versailles and was in much demand, but spent the last 40 years of his life working for James Bellingham at Levens Hall.

Later, brought within easy travelling distance of Liverpool by the railway, wealthy businessmen built comfortable houses away from the city's grime.

The nearer is a war memorial and the other is a massive stone cross, erected on the base of the original village cross.

After World War I the base of the Maiwand Memorial with its fluted pilasters and stone swags was rebuilt in a harder limestone, for the name panels had eroded badly.

In 1912 the college was an extension college of London University, which is how most of the 'red brick' universities started; it achieved independent status in 1926.

Most of East Devon's public houses are extremely ancient, and have served as places of refreshment for centuries.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes wind down to the North Sea. Cobles (the local fishing boats, based on a Viking design) are pulled up above the Easington Beck as it flows out into the sea.

Monks from the former abbey at nearby Athelney are reputed to have built part of the church and carved its bench ends with figures, some of which are depicted jumping over rhynes.

Berry Head is the southern limit of Torbay, and a country park as well. A hundred years ago, it was being used by people for recreation purposes (left) and nautical types too (right).

Basildon's first shop opened in Market Pavement on 16 August 1958. It was the premises of Allan Henbest, a tailor and outfitter, formerly of Laindon High Road.

Judging by the slogan on the rectory wall, not everyone was happy with the post-war Conservative government.

It afforded magnificent views of the Isle of Man, the Welsh mountains and the Lakeland fells from the viewing platform at the top.