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Margate's famous Jubilee clock tower is prominent in this picture of the beach.

Until the later 19th century, houses were built right up to the right jambs of the gateway.

Once belonging to the collegiate church of St Mary-in-the-Fields, this green was an unofficial park until 1877.

When I visited recently all I could hear was the sound of birds, including a woodpecker pecking.

The Unicorn is one of several beautiful, old timber inns in Weobley.

There is not much of a chance for a donkey ride on a day like this one. This photograph was taken from somewhere near the entrance to the Central Pier. The tram lines are somewhere under the water.

Over on the left is the Lancashire & Yorkshire and London & North Western joint railway station, which was conveniently built next to the steamer berths.

The spire of St John's can be seen in the distance.

As a lady opens her gate to enter the grounds of the attractive house, she turns to watch the little tot on his tricycle about to ride over the green, perhaps to make sure he is being supervised.

A close-up view of the Bugle Inn, a one time coaching inn for travellers before crossing the River Hamble.

This view is looking north-westwards from the junction with North Allington, at the bottom end of South Street.

This is one of the largest keeps in the country, richly decorated inside with a well-preserved medieval kitchen.

There is no evidence of a lighthouse here, so the inn is presumably named for the lighthouse at nearby Happisburgh, with its distinctive red and white stripes, built in 1791.

On the right is the Royal Leamington Bath and Pump Rooms, with swimming pool and Turkish baths.

The arcade was the Victorian equivalent of a shopping mall, offering undercover shopping and retail outlets on two levels. In 1899 the arcade even had a bioscope parlour.

This hilltop village, at the head of the Coombe Valley, sits astride the main road between Bude and Barnstaple. It was once the Pilgrim's route to St Michael's Mount.

A prominent monument inside commemorates Wedgwood Allen of the Royal Flying Corps as a knight in armour.

Before the opening of the Churchill Road in the 1960s the main route from Wisbech to Outwell was through the Market Place onto Church Terrace, then along West Street or Norfolk Street before joining the

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

Situated between the Hall and the village, Kelham Bridge's one claim to fame is that it was rammed and split in two by a small iceberg that floated down the Trent during the winter of 1854–55.

On days when there is no market the square is used extensively as a car park, although many people were unhappy with the introduction of a parking fee, combined with a limit on waiting time, in

Several of these photographs show rebuilding work being carried out on sea front properties.

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.

In Victoria Road, just east of the A355 as it passes through Farnham Common, the late 19th-century Victoria Hotel is now The Victoria, with its brickwork painted cream and the window jambs and quoins