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This busy mid 20th-century street scene shows a fine collection of shop fronts.

Other pictures of Swimbridge looked north towards a hill, from which this view is taken. Of note is the amount of tree surgery that has taken place, particularly around the church.

Essex Bridge was built by the Earls of Essex of Chartley to provide access for hunting parties to Cannock Chase.

In the 1890s Deansgate was one of the main shopping streets and commercial districts.

Two miles south of Bulbarrow, one of Dorset's highest summits, Hilton and neighbouring Milton Abbas share some of the most beautiful countryside in the county.

This picture shows the River Ebble and the A354 Blandford Road running side- by-side through the village of Coombe Bissett, a couple of miles south of Salisbury.

In AD1001, Viking raiders under the command of King Sweyn landed in the Exe estuary, raiding and burning the town of Exanmutha before marching on to Exeter.

Another view of Harrison Stickle, highest of the Langdale Pikes, this time from the valley at the bridge near the Dungeon Ghyll Hotel, a favourite haunt of walkers and climbers.

With the opening in 1920 of the Queen's Dock, Swansea Docks covered an area of 269 acres.

Boats moored here are hired out by the owner of the Ferry Inn. The horse-drawn ferry has a history going back to the 13th century.

Willington stands on the Trent and Mersey Canal in the Trent valley to the south of Derby.

At one time striped sunblinds of the type protecting the third door were very popular. Nearby is the church of St Mary the Virgin, parts of which date from the 14th century.

Ashmore is a village of Cranborne Chase, with a splendid setting and a large pond that attracts a variety of birdlife.

Wisbech's elongated market place bustles with activity on Thursdays and Saturdays.

This group of Tudor houses was originally plastered, and before a road-widening scheme in 1931, three gables stood across the St Margaret's Plain end.

By Victorian times it had been transformed into a tea garden of some renown, on the itinerary of all visitors to the Isle of Wight.

Schoolboys gather outside the King's School, not long before the outbreak of the Great War.

Just beyond the green is the 12th-century church of St Michael, with its Norman tower and font.

The layout of the streets is still there but many of the older buildings have been swept aside by progress.

Glasgow also took a lead in other aspects of communications.

Market Bosworth was granted the privilege of a Wednesday market in 1285, and the small town was one of 29 in the country to combine this with an annual fair.

Although the Gothic style flint and Bath stone cruciform church was completed in 1886, it was not consecrated until 1888 due to strong and often bitter opposition from the rector of Broadwater and

On the night of 14 November 1940, German bombs destroyed the ancient cathedral church of St Michael.

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.