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This artificial harbour, first constructed between 1740- 44, stands at the estuary of the small River Brit.

The Royal Military Canal was constructed in the early 19th century; its purpose was to transport military personnel along the most vulnerable stretch of Kent's coast in the event of a French

This view of Station Road, by now renamed Station Way, shows that while the local branches of W H Smith and Boots the Chemists still occupy their premises below the flats of Cheam Court, the corner shop

The largest house in Ewell, opposite the old churchyard, this castellated building was built by Henry Kitchen between 1810 and 1814 to replace an earlier castle which stood here in the reign of King Charles

This is the furthest north part of Buckinghamshire, beyond the stone-built market town of Olney, and not far from the Northamptonshire border.

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

The 15th-century local granite and limestone church tower of St Peter and St Paul, heavily restored in 1872 by P W Ordish, shows above the houses of quality which bound The Green.

Sherwood Forest once covered over 100,000 acres between Nottingham and Worksop, although the great ducal estates of the Dukeries enclosed much of the north part for their parks.

This is the view that Daventrians saw of the BBC station.

Madeira Walk was hewn out of chalk. The work began in 1892.

Arrested during the persecution of Protestants that followed Mary Tudor's accession to the throne, Hooper was held in custody for seventeen months before the law to burn heretics was passed.

Begun in 1883, the Manchester Ship Canal was a major civil engineering project of the Victorian age.

Once the property of the priors of Durham, the fulling mill was once known as the Jesus Mill; it now houses the Durham University Museum of Archaeology.

Another interesting scene of the town taken from the steps in Hill Lane looking towards the castle.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

In 1929 the council negotiated the purchase, at a very reasonable figure, of a large area of land owned by the Fleming family, who were the patrons of North Stoneham, and it was named Fleming Park.

During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Staithes was a fishing port of some standing, a centre for cod, haddock and mackerel, but it fell into decline with the development of steam trawlers, which tended

Much has changed in this view looking downhill northwards towards the station and the High Street, with the house on the left replaced by a Shell garage.

Battenhall lies off London Road and was first recorded in Norman times, when the Poer family held the manor for the annual rent of one lamprey.

However this may have inhibited the design of the two floors of residential apartments - though not the quality of their fittings. The top floor of the keep was primarily a fighting platform.

There has been a fortification of one sort or another at Inverness since the time of King Brude in the 6th century.

By 1900 some of the College's austerity had been softened by creeper, but it still laboured under the cumbersome name of the Oxford Diocesan Training College for School Masters.

By 1960, the pedestrian crossing over Westgate had been moved to its present position, in the foreground of this view.

No 11, selling boots and shoes, together with Lipton's teas (left), was the shop of clothier Harry Lane. No 12 was another tailor, Sidney Wellman (centre left).