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The church is famous for its association with the naturalist Gilbert White. He was curate here at one time, and used to preach in summer from the steps of a stone cross in the churchyard.

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

Baron Serlo de Burg built the first castle at Knaresborough, and during the reign of King John the fortress was also a royal arsenal for the manufacture of crossbow quarrels.

This early photograph gives evidence that Boscastle was indeed a trading port, with a small schooner and smacks lying aground at half-tide.

This photograph somehow conveys the feel of a picturesque West Country creek, with its thickly wooded shore and little boats stranded at low tide. The scene has changed little today.

Skegness owed its popular success to the railway, which reached here in 1873 as an extension from the then terminus at Wainfleet.

Wadhurst, a village about six miles south-east of Tunbridge Wells, was a centre of the iron industry during the 16th and 17th centuries.

This was the year that Coca Cola arrived in Kent and an outbreak of typhoid fever terrified local families. At this time the Headcorn to Tenterden railway line was opened.

Only the Austin 8 and the cars parked behind it suggest that the camera clicked on this scene half a century ago.

The scale of buildings with nothing over three to four storeys has now been rudely interrupted by the 1970s seven-storey extension to the Town Hall behind the 1930s brick building (centre).

This area was developed after 1885 on land owned by the Freehold Land Society. In the distance is the newly-opened Felix Hotel of 1903.

The quaint old clock tower with the fire station in its base, which stood at the foot of Gravel Hill, was an early casualty of the town planners' ruthless remodelling of the town centre.

Brownlow Cottage (left), surrounded by its white picket fence, housed the village store and post office, its windows graced with enamel lettering signs advertising Fry's chocolate and cocoa.

Many people ponder as to how this charming village got its name.

A large pleasure boat beaches to unload its passengers, and a bandstand could still attract an audience in this university town cum resort in West Wales.

We are looking north down the slope to Station Way, and the bridge which dates from the opening of the railway in 1847.

Tewkesbury's cross stands at the meeting point of the town's three main roads – the High Street, Church Street and Barton Street.

Set on the high ground about 115ft above sea level, inland from the main village, St Nicholas's Church was erected and enlarged from the 13th century by the medieval wool traders of the area.

The spire of St Mary's Church rises to 152 feet, and is a landmark for miles around.

The nave was rebuilt at the same time - it is 30 feet wide. There is a blocked arch under the window, where a chapel has been demolished.

The village street shown in this picture is now a busy part of the town.The two cars, a motor cycle and one bicycle reflect a slower pace of life.The bank, with its solid door, is half hidden by

For hundreds of years, the nearness of Purbeck to the coast of France meant that smuggling was a major industry; smuggled goods would often be hidden in the caves and quarries of the Isle.

The sailing barges look very much at home bottomed- out on the creek mud.

Plymouth hookers were essentially long liners, varying in size from 25ft to 40ft and from between five and fourteen tons.