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We are in the village centre on Queensway. The restaurant was closed for the winter here, but it certainly looked neat and tidy and waiting for the rush of summer visitors.

This view looks across the Solent from the Esplanade with the Ryde Esplanade station on the right.

His bride was Emily Sellwood, whom Tennyson had known since she was a girl of seventeen.

Lloyd George once described the Ceiriog Valley as a 'little bit of heaven on earth', despite the small Wynne slate mine in the village.

People have lived in the vicinity of Fordingbridge for millennia. Not far away at Castle Hill is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age.

An increasing number of Hampshire's most beautiful buildings were used for this refreshing purpose during the 20th century.

The white building in the centre background was demolished, and a large block of drab-looking flats replaced the trees on the left.

The building on the left is Dean's Central Stores --a modern retail outlet for a Dorset village of half a century ago.

The Village 1901 This tiny, attractive hamlet close to the great manor house of Ightham Mote has one small shop, the Plough Inn selling beers brewed at Westerham near the county border, and

Verwood was a hamlet attached to the nearby parish of Cranborne until the railway arrived just before the First World War.

Duke Street 'rec' has lost its thatched maintenance building, and the surface underneath the swings now conforms to several health and safety regulations, none of which could possibly

Beyond the bandstand is the Pagoda, a cast iron structure designed for the international Philadelphia Exhibition of 1876. It survived the war, but was removed in 1949.

The Applied Science departments are situated on the original site of the college, shown here, in Newport Road.

Paignton's harbour is an extension of a simple early shelter for shipping. Though not as protected as the harbour at Brixham, it maintained a fishing fleet for several centuries.

Following the opening of the Forth Bridge, the North British Railway Co decided that they could dispense with their ferry services.

Weymouth's Nothe Gardens are situated on a dramatic headland overlooking the Isle of Portland.

It is clearly high summer and the horrors of World War One were still unknown to these two, even if not for long.

A party of rowers is on the little landing stage.

During his lifetime Scott lived at several addresses in the city, the most famous being 39 Castle Street, where he wrote many of the Waverley novels.

Terminus Road, laid out in 1850, became a major commercial thoroughfare in the town, and the massive Baroque domed building on the left, sadly now demolished, symbolises the prosperity and pride of the

The garderobe pits - the medieval toilets - are shown on the foreground, with the stone and flint walls of the tower behind.

Note on the left Hartshorn the Butcher, purveyor to the Duke of Connaught. Note the fire station and post office also seen in picture 21343.

Cornwall's greatest fishing port is seen here at high tide with a number of fishing vessels.

Now conserved, it forms part of a busy guesthouse.