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There was once a railway crossing at the bottom of Commercial Street, the main business centre of the town.

This is typical of the rural river scenes at Weybridge at the turn of the century, before the First World War. Large houses had access to the river, and often had their own picturesque boathouses.

The old tide mill overlooking the quay at Emsworth, once Chichester Harbour's main port and an important centre for the oyster trade.

A view of the ordnance depot of the Royal Army Ordnance Corps.

This part of Calne is unrecognisable now. Phelps Chambers, on the right, was demolished as part of developments in 1973.

This memorial to Admiral Blake stands in front of the Regency Market House. Erected in 1900, it reads: 'Robert Blake, born in this town 1598, died at sea 1657'.

Another view showing the elaborate pargetting which has made the Ancient House recognised as one of the prime examples of its kind.

Archbishop Laud was at some time rector of this rather fine church, which forms a pleasant group with the 18th-century vicarage at the southern end of this mining town.

The steep descent to the quay at Polruan has never been kind to traffic, and is better suited to pedestrians. Ice creams and postcards are for sale at the village shop.

In 1690 Ambrose Crowley relocated his ironworks and workers from Sunderland to Winlanton and Swalwell.

Highway improvements have swept away the Italianate and balustraded mid 19th-century buildings in front of the spire, which is that of St Paul's Church. At the far right is the Swan Hotel.

Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

The Teifi begins its journey to the sea 70 miles away; it provided an inland route for the Normans to service the castles of Cardigan and Cilgerran.

At Parkmill we can see the earth bank or pale, with its wall and inside ditch, which marks the boundary of the deer park known as Park le Breos. The medieval deer-park was divided into three farms.

Penryn sits at the head of a creek in Falmouth harbour. At the top of the town Brunel's Great Western Railway crossed the broad wooded valley on a mighty viaduct.

The pupils of the school line the railings looking at the man with the camera. Branston is just two miles south of Burton, and at one time belonged to Burton Abbey.

This part of the Great Ouse has several mills at Eaton Socon, and also at St Neots.

His neighbours were a mixture of old and new residents.

looks down towards the crossroads at the Guildhall. Opposite Godolphin Hall is the former Baptist Chapel, which became the Flora Cinema at about this time.

Most of these cottages were built at the turn of the 19th century, when stops at Robinson's Tea Rooms were part of the popular wagonette trips.

A car at the toll gate waits as the gate is opened; the gatekeeper's house is adjacent to the gates.

Tens of thousands of new entrants into the Merchant Navy received their basic training at 'Vindicatrix'.

Victorian visitors came to look at old rural England - so different to their world in the overcrowded working cities of the West Riding.

Peascod Street lies at the centre of Windsor, at the top of the hill. The town centre is characterised by its streets of essentially Victorian and Georgian buildings.