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The Frogmore Café (left) offered busy shoppers a break until 1969, when it was taken over by Sketchleys the cleaners.

This view looks north out of the Market Place, past the corner of St John Street, with the Old Vicarage on the right.

The stone screen, designed by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville in Tudor Gothic style, was built in 1814 to dignify the entrance to St John's. There has been a church on this site for 1300 years.

The hospital moved in 1939 to nearby St John's Gardens, and this building, dating from 1834, was demolished in 1951.

This view looks towards St Lawrence's church.

It has been bypassed by all major routes, whether road, rail or canal, and is situated in a most beautiful spot.

King John granted markets here, and they have continued ever since. They take place around the Palladian-style market cross which is in the centre of five main roads.

This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in

The history of Finchale began in about 1115 when St Godric built himself a hermitage.

St John's is one of the largest parish churches in the country, so it is fitting that it boasts one of the grandest entrances.

The tree is still here, and so is the Old Hall (left), dating from the 17th century. The church of St John (1874) can be glimpsed through the tree.

Nearby is the church of St John Evangelist; in 1963 Guy Burgess, a secret agent for the USSR, who died in Russia, was to be buried in its churchyard.

In this picture the late 19th-century skyline of Newcastle is dominated by the 15th-century tower and spire of St Nicholas' Cathedral and the imposing bulk of the castle keep.

Except for the dome of St Paul's Cathedral in the distance, this scene is very different today.

The church on the left is St John's and dates from the 13th and 14th centuries. The tower is topped off with a small spirelet, which can just be made out.

The close-timbered building on the opposite side of the road is St John's Guildhall, founded in 1476, and partly occupied by Day's bakery.

St Martin's is just off the Dover Road from Canterbury, and has a 13th-century flint tower surrounded by trees.

The architect John Pearson completed the designs in 1872, and the shell was erected for a modest £8,850.

Amongst the shops on the left are the Bazaar of the Misses Parsonson, Robert Joy's carpet warehouse, John Payn, stationer and printer, William Brampton, chemist, and James Read, furniture dealer (both

Members of the St Ives lifeboat wear the cork life-jacket designed in 1854 by Capt John Ross Ward. Cumbersome though it may look to us today, Ward's jacket worked.

According to legend St Kennith was sent down the river Loughor in a coracle, landed on Worm's Head and founded a monastery at Llangennith.

This picturesque view shows the church of St Mary the Virgin from Lymm Dam.

The Abbey on the left and the spire of St John the Baptist Church act as reference points; the latter was severely bomb-damaged in 1942.

Fifteen people died, including elderly women and young children, and various buildings were destroyed – among them St John's Church.