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The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

We are looking up the hill from the centre of town towards Camborne.

Gravesend is a busy industrial town on the river Thames; here the river narrows to become a London river, and coastal pilots hand over to the river men.

The Hants and Sussex coach is parked outside Hill House, a former solicitor's home until it became a café restaurant in 1898.

The Railway Hotel has a rustic porch, and children stand hopefully beside the chocolate machines on the wall.

Stamford, one of England's most attractive and historic towns, is only just in Lincolnshire.

The Town Hall, with the clock tower, was built on the Cornhill in 1867.

At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.

The town of St Helens derives its name from the early chapel dedicated to the saint.

The first stone castle was built by David I; it was extensively modified around 1411 following the sack of the town by the Lord of the Isles the previous year.

By its completion in December 1893, 17,000 'navvies' had shifted 54 million cubic yards of soil and rocks to create the 35.5-mile-long canal at the then staggering cost of £15 million.

Its cabins were in keeping with the basic military hut- like look of so many institutions built during the First World War and afterwards.

BASILDON is a New Town, yet it has seen more changes over the past 60 decades than most places in Britain - and it has a history that will fascinate most of its present inhabitants.

The late 15th-century half-timbered Chequers Inn, with its gabled frontage and a swinging sign said to have been put up in the reign of Elizabeth I, stands on the west side of this busy street.

The late 15th-century half-timbered Chequers Inn, with its gabled frontage and a swinging sign said to have been put up in the reign of Elizabeth I, stands on the west side of this busy street.

Crickhowell is most famous for its grand 17th-century bridge over the Usk, and the nearby 1481ft Table Mountain.

Dr Ingles was walking in the town when he heard pistol shots.

Now demolished, the company operate a modern - and busy - factory on the edge of town.

At various times it incorporated a boarding school, shops, private residences and - as the name suggests - the town's museum.

Over the years the town has expanded considerably; nowadays, many local inhabitants commute to work elsewhere.

As we look west along Friar Street from in front of the Town Hall, the amount of rebuilding is evident: the occasional older building survives amid a lot of neo-Georgian dating from the 1920s to

The area has tended to be a problem for the council, as there is a strong temptation to create a car park in front of the Town Hall, but praise be, at the moment it remains grassed and treed.

As a relatively new town, Bournemouth was able to develop as a holiday resort unencumbered by the street pattern and buildings of an older settlement; its main purpose has always been to cater for thousands

To the left of the River Stour is the Bell Hotel; the town records report that the mayor 'presented King Charles II with a glass of sack at the Bell tavern door' when his Majesty rode in