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

Two men, a young child and a dog outside the Half Moon Inn provide the only sign of life in the village centre.

Bidford became famous in 1922 when a Saxon burial ground was discovered containing 200 graves, including those of warriors buried with their weapons.

The children's zoo was definitely a hands-on place. Here children get up close to all manner of small, and usually friendly, animals.

The shops were once the outbuildings of the Swan Yard.

Sutton is 4 miles north east of Biggleswade. This Ford is spanned by a 14th-century packhorse bridge classified as an ancient monument.

Langford's tents have now taken the place of Dendy's bathing machines. Opposite is Redcliffe Lodge, and between the trees is Dendy's Parkfield House.

A further example of the Victorians restoring and re-erecting an old Celtic cross, perhaps inventing a suitable fanciful nickname for it too!

Every now and again, the Brothers gather in the mid 14th-century Brethren's Hall for a feast of celebration called the Gaudy Lunch.

They are home to colonies of guillemots, razorbills and kittiwakes.

Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865. It was known later as the Cotton Exchange.

Three forms of transport have cut through the area at various times: the main Roman road, later the A6, the Lancaster Canal, and the railways, all bringing prosperity and extra work to the area.

We are looking past a mature oak tree and the caretaker's lodge to the main buildings of the secondary modern school for boys, constructed in 1959.

This thatched cottage sits at the northern end of the village and was once a pub whose custom came from those travelling to and from Shropshire.

The stretch of marshland from Winchelsea to Pett is known as Pett Level. This view looks along the shingle beach which fronts the marshland towards Fairlight.

The hall was Gothicized under the direction of Henry Keene, Henry Couchman and Saunderson Miller, who was responsible for both the exterior and the interior décor.

A workman pauses from his digging - most likely connected with the gas street-lamp - while the photographer captures this street scene on the outskirts of Felixstowe.

East Anglia has a long tradition for growing malting barley, and Ipswich had a number of maltings. R & W Paul's was right on the dockside.

Just off the main road to Bridport is Symondsbury, a community of architectural gems, often missed by the modern motorist speeding between Lyme Regis and Bridport.

By the 1950s there were still open fields near Hillock Lane as Woolston slowly began to develop from a farming community to a suburb of Warrington.

Even at the turn of the century, there is no doubt that Cambridge had traffic problems, with horse-drawn carriages and bicycles filling this bustling thoroughfare.

The well-grown tree hides Arndale House and the new Cornhill development, but the ugly Town Hall extension of 1966 (right) is still in clear sight.

Consequently, it was one of the first Roman-British towns to have complete city walls.

Holy Mountain, otherwise known as Skirrid Fawr, is one of the seven hills surrounding Abergavenny. Standing at 1,595ft, the summit offers extensive views across the county.