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This 'superb temple of legislation' in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

Further down the street Continental Motors are the local Michelin agents.

A paddle steamer loaded with trippers has just left for a voyage down the estuary.

Half a mile from Lyndhurst and yet located within the parish lies the scattered hamlet of Emery Down, surround- ed by peaceful forest glades and countryside.

It is reported that a farmer knocked down the stones in 1690. The trees have now been removed.

Situated at the top of a hill, Paul is the mother village for Mousehole down below.

A portcullis would have dropped down to close off the archway.

High Sweden Bridge is a picturesque packhorse bridge over the Scandale Beck between High Pike and Snarker Pike (there is a Low Sweden Bridge lower down the valley).

The imposing building in the left foreground is home to Lloyd's Bank; it replaced the town's Assembly Rooms in 1900.

It was burned down by the French in 1377 along with Rottingdean's inhabitants, who had taken shelter inside it. Even today burn marks are visible.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

This photograph looks from the Old School down the A359 to the bridge over the Yeo, where a muddy ford once gave the village its name; this scene has little changed.

We are looking down North Street from the Duke of York pub, and this scene looks much the same today. The 'Family Shop' - the post office and stores on the left - is now a watch repairer's.

On the left is a row of three houses with their original front doors; further down the street are two 18th-century mansard-roofed cottages, one of which is thatched.

Further down the road a lot of people are gathered outside Woolworth's store - perhaps they had a sale on.

'The Prisoner of Zenda' was showing at the Regal Cinema in the elegant North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate when this picture was taken.

The narrow cobbled streets of Staithes still wind down to the North Sea just as they did in the 1950s.

The beautiful valley of Eskdale runs down from some of the highest ground in the Lake District to reach the sea at Ravenglass.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

The creeper has been removed, and the chimneys have been cut down, but behind a new low wall the building remains an important local landmark.

We are looking down on the village centre from The Gate, facing the Rydal Fells.

It is seen here in its former glory, for it was burned down in 1934; it has since been rebuilt in brick - a copy of the stone original.

Windhill 1903 With the tombs and churchyard of St Michael's on the right, the 16th-century Boar's Head Inn and its neighbouring cottages lean over the pavement at the top of Windhill as it drops down

Guildhall Square contains the Assize Court, the Town Council Chamber and the Magistrates' Clerk's Office.