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This is a splendid view of the terraces and their fine sea view. A sign in the centre left of the picture reads - 'Jones's Hotels and Cafés'.

The castle was built in 1539, and came under the control of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. In 1648 the castle was captured by Colonel Nathaniel Rich for Parliament.

Tetbury lies near the boundary of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire on the long stretch of high road between Stroud and Malmesbury.

At the centre of this photograph lies the Norman tower of Oxford Castle. Within its precincts lie a Saxon mound and a Norman crypt.

The village of Hinderwell lies between Easington and Runswick Bay. Here, in this delightful view of 1929, we see an early motorcar outside the Rectory.

This is one of the most popular of the Broadland river inns, equally accessible by road or river.

Back in 1900, Kelly's Directory of Cambridgeshire said of March's Market Place:'the Fire Engine House is in the Market Place; there is one 40 horse power steam engine by Shand and Mason, with about half-a-mile

Not part of Trinity College, but a college in its own right, Trinity Hall was founded in 1350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.

Here we see the impressive battlemented three-storeyed gatehouse of Archbishop Courtenay's college for a master and twenty-four chaplains.

Another general view, this time of the tranquil Usk as it wends its way down towards the Severn estuary south of Newport, Gwent. The Usk rises south-west of Trecastle in Powys.

Boston was not only the largest town and the commercial capital of Lincolnshire in the early 19th century but was also the first town in the county to industrialise.

On top of Table Mountain is a 2,500-year-old fort (a crug) of Hywel, from which the town derived its name.

The church of St Chad, with two bells hanging in its open belfry, stands a short distance down the lane opposite the Fenwick Arms.

This old wool town is situated north of Cheltenham in the deep valley of the River Isbourne.

Now Southampton's Archaeological Museum, this used to be the home of the town gunner, with the guns and powder stored here.

The Plain, as it is known, lies just to the east of Magdalen Bridge, representing the boundaries of the old city. Here the Cherwell flows under the easterly part of the High Street.

Tom Tower is one of the college's most treasured architectural features, as well as a famous landmark on the Oxford skyline.

Until it was demolished at the end of the 19th century, St Martin's Church stood on this site. The heavily restored medieval tower is all that remains.

Above the junction of Castlegate and Parsons Lane is the keep of Clitheroe Castle, which was founded under Roger de Poitou shortly after William seized the throne from Harold.

Ladies Walk was laid out in 1785 by the Enclosure Award Commissioners in conjunction with the Corporation of Andover.

Here we see a change of pace compared to some of the previous pictures: the pavements are crowded with pedestrians and the road is heaving with traffic. 1955 was a year of newspaper and dock strikes;

Lines of wind shelters adorn the beach at the popular Yorkshire coast resort of Filey. Once a fashionable beach accessory, they are seldom seen today, so perhaps it was windier in the Fifties!

This view at Butt Brow north-west towards Combe Hill across Willingdon Bottom is part of the four thousand acres previously owned by the Duke of Devonshire that the corporation of Eastbourne have managed

Across the street, the mock-timbered frontage of the Holmsdale pub, with its coat of arms suspended beneath the Watney's Red Barrel advertising emblem, adjoins the similarly sham premises of Freeman, Hardy