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Like Morgan's the confectioner's (C240004), this shop (left), a post office and grocer's run by Pardey & Johnson, was built at the end of the 19th century.

S G Smith on the left is still at the end of the parade of shops, and still sells cars. At the opposite end, the trees mark the old burial ground beyond the road junction.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden.

A small boy in a rowing boat gazes at his reflection in the waters of Windermere in this summer photograph.

Bathing is possible along some of the beaches at Cowes, particularly at Gurnard Bay. However, the currents are strong and the shoreline shelves steeply.

By the 1870s, many Lancashire cotton workers received three day's unpaid holiday a year, which was tacked onto a weekend to give a five-day break.

For most of the century there had been daily steamers from Belfast to Bangor, and as the holiday traffic increased the County Down Railway took over the service.

This is a petrifying well, similar to the one at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects which fall into it.

This hotel at Bolton Bridge is less than a mile from Bolton Abbey.

The Green Dragon at Hardrow, the cosy interior of which is shown here, is probably best known as the entrance point to the rocky amphitheatre of Hardrow or Hardraw Force, at 100ft/30m England's highest

A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Windermere.

Further up into the Market Place from G66002, we see the town's library at number 14 Market Place (left) before its move to new premises behind Westgate in the early 1960s.

The flamboyant thatch of a former infants' school was turned into a cottage orne by Matthew Knight in 1881; at the turn of the century it was the home of the local headmaster, John Charles Bucknall.

Another general view of Matlock Bath, looking up towards the wooded Heights of Abraham on the skyline.

The thatched roofs of the Ship Light's and Port Cottage lie in the valley at Lower Eype.

The Prince Regent lived at Crichel from time to time, and moved his daughter, the popular Princess Charlotte, here in 1814. Charlotte died at the age of 21.

The lack of people on this quiet beach at Elmer, near Bognor Regis, does not appear to distract from the enjoyment of these two young children.

Taken from the site of the old Hoe Police Station and lock-up before the pier was built, this view shows a largely undeveloped West Hoe (the grassy area at centre).

Cadnam, or Cadenham, stands at an important road junction at the north-western corner of the New Forest; sooner or later every traveller in the locality is bound to pass through the village.

At the far left, the single-storey building is the old lifeboat station of 1898, which in 1937 became the world's first lifeboat museum.

As this village is at the far north of the Rhondda it is not too far from the Brecon National Park, famous for its rivers and waterfalls, carving out the limestone country.

In the distance is the church of St Mary Major with its massive 13th-century tower, square at the base and octagonal at the top.

Camberley grew up at the gates of the Military Staff College which opened in 1862.