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Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

The High Street again, and a much busier scene is shown. The road is the A30 London to the west of England road which, even in 1955, could become horribly congested, especially at summer weekends.

Girls pose with shrimping nets outside the Swan Hotel, with its boats for hire. The coal lighters are discharging coal at the Old Town Wharf.

The old rectory, of warm red brick, with its tall chimneys and light-gathering broad bay windows has creeper running rampant all over it.

In the background is the River Bure, which flows into the sea at Great Yarmouth, and which here is the limit of navigation for larger Broads vessels.

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

The St Erth to St Ives branch line, the last broad gauge railway to be built, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1877.

'A walk through the streets on a summer's day half-a- century ago ... was different in many respects.

With its shallow sandy bays, broad grassy downs, civic gardens, and terraces of unpretentious lodging houses, Bude is almost completely an Edwardian construction.

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

This stunning 18th-century garden house with Gothic-style decorated windows sits in parkland in the grounds of Frampton Court.

Broad Haven is sheltered from south-westerlies by the bulk of St Bride's Peninsula. It is a popular tourist destination today. People are exploring in the rock pools, centre left.

This peaceful view looks up Holywell Hill towards the city centre, as it dips towards the river and the curative spring from which it takes its name, with, on the right, one of the fine Georgian houses

A place familiar to all train travellers through Devon, Dawlish nestles across the sides of a broad combe, with the railway line protecting the town from the sea.

Boatsheds on the right of the picture are typical of many, with mooring for several boats. A refuelling pump stands on the edge of the water next to a general stores.

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

A tranquil backwater off Hickling Broad shows privately-owned yachts at rest among the reeds.

Lyme's most famous resident is the novelist John Fowles, author of 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'. The film version, which starred Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, was filmed here in the 1980s.

The premises of Mellersh & Son, grocers, can be seen over on the left of this picture. Note the rather rough surface of the road at Church Crookham.

Broad Street was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as 'one of the most memorable streets in England'.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

What a blissful way to get home at the end of the day. Imagine the pleasure of gliding along between meadow grass and wild flowers on the banks, accompanied by the music of birdsong.

Here we have a long view down a broad Wimborne street, with the towers of the Minster in the distance.

On the right is a smart brown stone and granite building, characteristic of the locality. Over the roofs rises the four-pinnacled tower of the parish church, the largest in Cornwall.