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This was for many years the popular image of surfing and bathing at Newquay, when plywood surfboards were the order of the day - this was long before the coming of wetsuits and fibreglass

Loders was built in the domain of a Benedictine Priory founded by the Norman grandee Baldwin de Redvers during the reign of Henry I.

Modern-day Exmouth sprawls across the two ancient parishes of Withycombe Raleigh and Littleham. The latter became a suburb of Exmouth in the last decades of the 20th century.

All Saints' is known as the cathedral of the Nadder Valley. Its crossing tower is possibly of the 14th century; it is buttressed by simple moulded half arches at the east end of the nave.

The viaduct, supported on nine piers, is 609 feet long and 93 feet high.

Gatwick remains in Sussex, but Horley north of the River Mole was returned to Surrey. However, this brief selection of views of Horley are included in this book.

Although it is ten miles from the sea on what is now an artificial River Nene, Wisbech maintains its long tradition as a sea port.

This passageway, which now runs from St Mary's Street down into the car park beside the meadows, formed one of a tight network of passages and closes which provided cramped tenement accommodation in this

On the A52 between Nottingham and Grantham, Bottesford is the most northerly settlement in the county.

Kilby is a Scandinavian form of the Old English 'cilda-tun'; the first part means 'child', or more probably 'young nobleman'.

When he died in 1653, Humphrey Chetham had already started the work of educating the 'sons of honest, industrious and painful parents'.

We can see the porch attached to the west tower, and also the good proportions of the building. Inside, the wide three-bay nave is tall and light with thin piers.

The biggest docks were the Royal group east of Canning Town on the north bank of the Thames. The Royal Victoria Dock opened in 1855, enclosing 94 acres of water.

The castle, re-built in stone from 1189 by William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, keeps a broody watch on the town - as it has always done. Henry Tudor, the future King Henry VII, was born here in 1457.

Here and above we see contrasting aspects of one of the town's most important thoroughfares: a quiet residential section overlooked by the comforting bulk of the Town Hall, and the busy shopping

The original lower height of the chancel roof can easily be seen, but otherwise, the interior is very similar to today`s church.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

The churchyard to the west of the church is framed on three sides by remarkable and complete sets of almshouses.

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.

This is the T-junction at the centre of Hurst Green.This stretch of road has a history all of its own. In 1826 J C Macadam laid a new road surface here as a trial.

In the mid to late 1950s, this pattern of school building was springing up everywhere.

Moreton Hall, Whalley lies just over the boundary from Great Harwood at the other side of the valley of the Calder.

Shortly before this photograph was taken, the Town Council approved an expenditure of £850 to be paid to Frederick Pomeroy RA for the design and execution of a statue of the Lord Protector

The village nestles at the foot of Ingleborough, one of the famous Three Peaks, but it was the waterfalls walk that brought town dwellers to the area.