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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.

Built by Douglas Hoyland in 1912, this terracotta building to the west of Andover has Perpendicular-style windows and a bell turret over the crossing.

The loch, which is ringed with hills, features in Sir Walter Scott's poem 'The Lady of the Lake'.

As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.

During the summer season Southport was a regular venue for bands from regiments of the British Army.

The profusion of lily pads suggests that its role as a boating lake has not yet been realised.

We are looking downhill to where the High Street divides; it continues on as the right-hand fork. The lack of traffic is quite remarkable.

A clearer view of the decorative-timbered Town Hall. Built in 1700, it was restored in 1889 and served for some time as a library.

It was unusual for a place of its former size to have held three manors.

During the summer season Southport was a regular venue for bands from regiments of the British Army.

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.