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The castle has been owned by the Earls of Powys since the early 1800s, and they have always opened it to the public. The sign on the door announces that admission will cost 6d (or 2½ new pence!).

Apart from the building at the end of the street, which has been replaced by an award-winning 1960s monstrosity, all these buildings are still there.

Two years before this photograph was taken, Reading Corporation was persuaded that Prospect Park should be bought 'for the benefit of weary workers who, when at rest, need some open space where communion

The lake provides a focal point for Batchley Estate, and has acquired a fringe of vegetation since 1955.

On the corner of East Street two women talk to each other outside the bespoke tailors E Abington & Sons Ltd.

The cottages were built in the 1820s for retired workers on the Acland family's Holnicote Estate. They were medieval farmhouses, remodelled to the fashionable designs of John Nash.

The delightful whitewashed parapets and the octagonal toll-house of the Bratch Locks. Nearby are the waterworks opened by Bilston's urban district council in 1896.

This view of Middleton Dale, near Eyam, has totally changed today.

Some of the kerbstones which line Ashburton's narrow streets are made from fine pink marble, quarried locally.

The Fitzwilliam Arms, on the main road to Peterborough, was possibly altered from a row of cottages.

This photograph was taken at the bottom of the High Street. Notice the people queuing patiently outside the shop on the left.

Cattle were sold at the Rother Beast Market in Broad Street, which had standings with gutters down each side, hence the width of the street.

Here we get an idea of just how steep the limestone slopes are upon which the town is built, and how narrow the gorge is through which the river flows.

Although once dedicated to St Dubricius, this church is now sanctified to the Nativity of the Virgin.

These fields were not always as peaceful, for a great deal of skirmishing took place hereabouts in the Civil War. Now they are busy only with farmers, picnickers and country ramblers.

One of the favourite venues for Nottingham people - the embankment steps on a warm summer's day attracting families and swans.

The town's first library was situated in one of the houses in York Terrace.

Essex lacks natural rock so skills in the use of wood and brick-making have been well developed over the centuries.Attractive wrought iron fencing surrounds the long gardens on the right.

In contrast to the impressively wide and well-built promenades to be seen in Llandudno and elsewhere, the fallen rubble wall on the left here and the submerged groynes give the impression

Field Marshal Conway's great 18th-century landscape improve- ments and garden buildings in the grounds of Park Place included the rustic boulder-bedecked bridge on the right, carrying the Wargrave

Erlestoke is on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain and offers views that can still be recognised from this photograph.

Since the part-pedestrianisation of South Street, Western Road has become a major traffic route lined with bus stops, its pavements crowded with scurrying shoppers.

Looking through the Gate in to the Close, a notice on the doors is a reminder that they are shut every night at 11pm.

This inn survives in Southwark; it is now in the care of the National Trust. The building, dating from 1676, is now London's only galleried inn.