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The village used to be called Auldkirk because the people of Greenock worshipped here until they built their own church at the end of the sixteenth century.

Everard's Commercial Hotel is to the left, and in the distance is the earlier Corn Exchange of 1836. To the right is the cupola of Cupola House.

Both Acock’s Green and Olton were once residential areas favoured by the wealthier inhabitants of Birmingham, but they became progressively industrialized as factories opened along the route of the

Two miles south east of Rotherham, Whiston was a large village by the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

This is a fine view of a pastoral hillside. The church of St Peter ad Vincula has a shingled broach spire. We can see a fine smock windmill in full working order in the left distance.

A small village on the edge of the Ashdown Forest, east of Forest Row. Holy Trinity church was built towards the end of the last century and features a copy of an Italian Pieta by Francesco Francia.

Cycles are clearly the 'in' thing for Barnstaple ladies at the turn of the century.

Here we see the changing face of the Co-op.

The Palace is situated upon the south shore of Linlithgow Loch. King David I built the first manor house at Linlithgow, and the church of St Michael next to it.

Under the Griffin Hotel signboard, and in the midst of the dominating chain stores and offices, Jackson's barber's shop still shows a traditional striped pole.

Under the Griffin Hotel signboard, and in the midst of the dominating chain stores and offices, Jackson's barber's shop still shows a traditional striped pole.

This tiny hamlet, almost unchanged today, is at one end of the parish of Abinger, which at nine miles is the longest in Surrey, but is never more than a mile in breadth.

On the east side of the 5-acre village green, now used for cricket matches, is the Hall, built in 1732. It was the country seat of the Duke of Leeds, who lived at Kiveton Park in south Yorkshire.

Underground caverns hollowed out by streams are a feature of carboniferous limestone country, and Wookey Hole is one of the more spectacular examples.

A promenade walk had been established along the street in the 1880s, when some of the gardens were removed.

We look eastwards from the bushes and wall of The Grove (left). This large Victorian villa was destroyed by fire in 1952, which enabled widening of the street.

This rectory for many years was the home of the Reverend Edward Stanley, brother of the first Lord Stanley.

The eastern part of the building was extended to incorporate other dwellings.

The Isle of Wight was made fashionable in the 19th century when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert made it a favourite holiday destination for the royal family.

The attractive stone built village stands on high undulating ground some four miles north-east of Oakham.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.

The flamboyant thatch of a former infants' school was turned into a cottage orne by Matthew Knight in 1881; at the turn of the century it was the home of the local headmaster, John Charles Bucknall.

In the 1920s and 30s Walter Collins printed a well-known series of sepia postcards of the town.

Bromsgrove lies a few miles west of Redditch, and it is an ancient market town which has become a suburban satellite of Birmingham.