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On the left is a wall monument to Granville Piper and Richard Wise, both aldermen and mayors of Launceston in the early 18th century.

This charming area is down the river from Little Silver, close to the confluence of the river Lowman. Today, the trees have grown appreciably, forming an almost impenetrable barrier.

At some of the weirs, salmon ladders have been provided to help them ascend to their spawning grounds.

When steam-powered sawmills and mechanical production methods introduced ready-made furniture onto the market, thousands of craftsmen lost their jobs. Here, an old man re-canes a child's chair.

Although the bicycle is making a comeback in the 1990s, the sight of so many propped against the kerb and quite happily left is past.

The thatched bowls pavilion in the distanct was built in 1923; gates inot the park commemorate the parks opening by the Lord Mayor of London in October 1892.

Here we see another view of this main road.

Eaton Park, out in the western suburbs, has three avenues and rectangular ponds converging on a bandstand surrounded by circular colonnaded buildings, which were built between 1924 and 1928.

To the south of the town is remote heath and woodland.

Although best known for its castle, Framlingham's heart is Market Hill, in a town where many of the buildings are in fact made from stones removed from the castle.

Much of the land through which the Ouse idles has dropped 15 feet in level since, and is now highly fertile farmland.

At the far end of the street, dominating the picture, is Jesus Church, built in 1879 by Arthur Blomfield. He also carried out various improvements to Oundle School.

The west end of Skelton is laid out around a central green area, on which is located the war memorial.

The tent to the front of the view advertises moderate fees to consult a palmist and clairvoyant.

Look above the shop fronts of Timothy Whites, Baxters and Hiltons on the left and see the fine brickwork, the stone quoins and the sash windows.

Queen Mary’s Chair 1911 Mary I married Prince Philip of Spain in Winchester Cathedral on 25 July 1554 and this chair, upholstered in blue vel- vet, was used by the Queen during the ceremony.

This colossal building, once home of the controversial Greater London Council, was designed by Ralph Knott and begun in 1912.

In the centre of the picture is the Gaumont cinema, which opened as the Regent in 1927; to the right is Cole Brothers department store.

Visitors to the Castletown area had a choice of hotels; the Castletown Hotel, the Derby Haven, the Marine Hydro Hotel (where hydropathic treatments could be taken), and the Golf Links Hotel which offered

Such is the unbroken nature of the West Dorset coastline that artificial harbours had to be constructed at Lyme Regis and West Bay.

When this picture was taken much of the town was fairly new, having been built over the previous thirty years or so to meet the demand for housing from Stockport and Manchester-based business people wishing

Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.

Delightful dark brown granite cottages hug the narrow choked streets of Mousehole (pronounced Mouzel).

The natural landscape was to be kept as linear parks, so that everyone was within walking distance of the countryside.