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The ladies are dressed fashionably, but in the event of a storm the road surface would turn quickly into a quagmire which would surely dirty their smart clothes.

A favourite pub for many years, the Pleasure Boat Inn these days is the starting point for a water trail which visits the reed beds which make this part of the Norfolk Broads an important wildlife habitat

Many of the townsfolk would have been in the audience at Aldershot's famous Rushmoor Arena when military tattoos were staged there.

This photograph shows the Dolphin Hotel on the right of the square, next to the mid 19th-century Market Hall. At one time Botley boasted fourteen inns.

This view shows the bridge into the castle, recently renewed, and the apse or semi-circular projection. This, like the one at the Tower of London, housed the castle chapel.

Near the Park Gate entrance at the city end stands the former Viceregal Lodge, once the home of the British Governor. It is now the President's palace.

Once nothing more than a tiny hamlet in the parish of Wensley, Leyburn developed into a market town thanks to a charter granted by Charles I.

At Guisborough, an order was issued prohibiting the movement of all live cattle, even with a certificate.

Castle Mill stands on the River Mole and was recorded in Domesday. It was always a corn mill, and was enlarged in the 1830s with four pairs of stones, storerooms and other outbuildings.

The oldest parts of St Mary's are 13th and 14th-century, found in the south transept and north arcade. The tower is 15th century and the chancel was rebuilt by John Ashworth in 1868.

Today, a chemist now occupies the left-hand side of the nearest building, whilst the chemist in this picture became Burton's in 1938. It is now the Catalogue Shop.

Today, a chemist now occupies the left-hand side of the nearest building, whilst the chemist in this picture became Burton's in 1938. It is now the Catalogue Shop.

Water-skiing was just one of the many new sports offered to guests at Rockley Sands. Behind is Bay Hollow: there are now some trees on the cliff, and the path to the right has become steps.

Most of the church was rebuilt in 1872, while the tower is part 15th-century, part 1729, replacing what had been destroyed in the 1648 siege. The current battlements were added in 1911.

The nave is of 1820 and cement- rendered, and the flint chancel dates from 1894. The robust memo- rial drinking fountain dates from 1893.

Most of the church was rebuilt in 1872, while the tower is part 15th-century, part 1729, replacing what had been destroyed in the 1648 siege. The current battlements were added in 1911.

This medieval inn with characteristic ranges on each side of the yard reached through the carriageway, was in fact a 15th-century house converted to an inn about 1500.

Before that, a pub called the Horseshoes had stood nearby, on the site of Hart Cottages.

Its ambitions to become a resort after the arrival of the railway in 1854 were slow to come to fruition. However, eventually many substantial houses and a pier were built.

This stretch of the Thames is known as Isis; near here it meets its tributary, the River Cherwell.

It was from here that four knights set off one winter evening in 1170 for Canterbury to murder Thomas à Becket.

There were once cottages on this site, and on 24 May 1849, Anne and Charlotte Bronte arrived to stay in one of the cottages for a holiday. Anne had consumption.

Linlithgow became a favourite royal residence, though during the wars with the English it was often under siege or counter-siege.

The harbour was once connected with local mines by a railway - the tracks can be seen on the left of the photograph.