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The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Teffont, 10 miles west of Salisbury, is the combination of the villages of Teffont Evias and Teffont Magna; both have small churches maintained and still in use by the whole combined parish of

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

In this picture things have quietened down a little, and the policeman on point duty has only one waggon and several horse-trams and horse-drawn omnibuses to dodge.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

The church of St Andrew and the rear of the buildings in St Mary's Street sit on the spur of land surrounded by the River Avon which attracted the Saxon settlers.

Here we see the white-washed walls of the Willington Hotel. Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

This is an old village, but there are plenty of older habitations nearby: this part of Dorset boasts an impressive collection of earthworks, burial barrows, ancient ridge paths and strip lynchets.

An anonymous offer of £20,000 had been received, which would enable part of the land to be bought for the National Trust.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

Honest Tom Steele's monument is near the entrance of the cemetery. Many of the tombs carry shamrock, Irish harp and wolfhound motifs, indicative of the Young Ireland Movement.

Here we see another view of the Wye valley. Again, trees and attractive small fields give a vivid impression of the glorious nature of the Derbyshire Peak District.

The total cost of the building was £7,465.

The centre of Basildon has served the local community well since the 1950s, and remains a popular place to shop.

Gulls forage for food in the frozen wastes.The ice has broken and the waters of the river released.

On this bright summer's day, the car park in the heart of the village is packed full of cars.

The thatched linhay was ubiquitous at the time of this picture. Today, they are hard to find. Are the cows thin versions of the shorthorn, the standard milk cow of the era?

Crossing Mary Street from the southern end of the High Street brings the explorer of Taunton to Vivary Park.

Travellers from Taunton to the Quantock Hills usually go by way of Kingston - and a very picturesque route it is.

It is a tragedy of our century that the elevations of many of our finest buildings are defaced by the necessities of modern life. If only Mr Bird could have sited his garage elsewhere!

The palace was built by the 33rd Archbishop of York, Walter de Gray, in about 1250, using stone from a previous manor house that he had had demolished.