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Architectural sleuths will find Number 88 Sherborne of particular interest, as features from the original Norman church have been incorporated in its building.

Here we see manually-operated lock gates in the River Cam at Waterbeach, north of Cambridge. These days the lock is electrically operated.

The display of stock cascades over the frontage - there are local prints.

The old part of the town is mainly late Victorian, although it expanded rapidly after World War II as an overspill for London.

This view of the Poultry Cross and Silver Street clearly shows a sign over Olivers' shoe shop.The County Hotel is in the background.

This view of the Poultry Cross and Silver Street clearly shows a sign over Olivers' shoe shop.The County Hotel is in the background.

The pierhead, with the theatre which had replaced the old saloon, or pavilion, during the improvements of 1946, is photographed at low tide.

For many families in the years of post-war austerity, a caravan holiday offered the ideal solution to a holiday by the sea.

Ten years before, Cockerell's prototype hovercraft had made its first test runs off the mouth of the Medina.

Just out of sight is the magnificent 17th-century Guildhall, supported by columns to provide an open ground floor.

Peering just around the corner of the house on the right is a petrol pump. This might have been quite acceptable in the 1950s perhaps, but not legal now.

It is a clear and sunny day, but very few people are on the beach. Felixstowe developed as a resort after the Empress of Germany stayed here in 1891.

This view towards the market shows the wide variety of small independent traders that still flourish in the town.

Despite the throng of tourists on summer afternoons, Cockington retains its old-world charm with its picturesque thatched cottages, bee-haunted gardens, lovely old church and modest stately home.

The Glasgow-bound train standing in the station is almost lost against the high ground overlooking the head of Glen Fruin, where Beinn Chaorach rises to over 2,300 ft.

Note that on the left-hand side at the top of the house the window is missing. Perhaps reconstruction is going on, or maybe repairs are about to start.

Maurice Lambert's 'Mother and Child' was commissioned in 1959, as a symbol of the New Town's growth. Lambert spent a year on the sculpture; Basildon spent £4,000 on it.

This view shows an early example of a houseboat. As an inexpensive home, converted narrowboats are still popular, especially closer to Oxford, where there are dozens to be seen.

The stone bridge pictured here was washed away in a flood in c1957; it was replaced by a steel construction built onto the stone footings of the previous bridge.

The stones have a Latin inscription, which reads 'Doniert ordered this for the good of his soul'.

St Michael's church in Coombe Bisset is a mixture of architectural styles. It has a picturesque traditional setting: a farmyard, a graveyard, a war memorial and a yew tree.

Set below Pen y Corddyn Mawr, a Romano-British hill fort, these houses and cottages are a more recent addition to the ancient landscape of the North Wales coast.

Another view of the school buildings, seen from the opposite side. At this time, this site had only been occupied by the school for no more than a year.

The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn. In the 13th century, the local retor, Jacobus de Scabellis, became a cardinal, and ultimately, Pope Honorius IV.