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On 17 September 1944 Sunday morning worshippers on their way to church heard the distant rumble of aircraft engines.

Surrounded by these majestic trees, and with the west tower of St Leonard's Church, one of the largest and finest in Kent, rising behind them, a summer game of cricket takes place on this spacious ground

The remains of Hailes (sometimes spelt Hayles) Abbey lie a mile or two out of Winchcombe off the B4632 to Broadway.

This Round House, like others along the man-made waterway, was lived in by a lengthman and his family - they collected tolls from passing barges on the Thames and Severn canal.

This view shows the approach to the village from the south, with the open space of Ellerthwaite Square having no shortage of motor traffic even at this early time, including an omnibus (right).

To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair. This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

This is one of the unmade roads to the west of Rectory Road—perhaps Hillcrest Chase or Rectory Park Drive. St Michael's church looms in the background.

The town owes much to the Victorian jeweller Joseph Mayer, who gave his home village a little library in Mayer Hall in 1866.

This view along The Parade at Parkgate has changed very little over the intervening years. All of the houses still stand.

Buntingford was founded in the 1100s and served as a market for the surrounding villages and communities, particularly the settlement at the adjacent Layston.

The gates were said to have come from the Leper Hospital at Clothall.

Hollybush Lane lies in the southern part of the Garden City, and its tree-lined footpath and grassy triangular area typify Ebenezer Howard's vision of a ordered village atmosphere.

Today all roads seem to lead into Liphook, and it is a busy, noisy place. The author Flora Thompson lived here for a time just before the 1930s because her husband worked at the local post office.

Does the Morris Minor belong to the landlord? This pub was owned by Brickwood, the Portsmouth brewery. They brewed Sunshine IPA, Pompey XXXXX Dark Ale, and Admiral Stout.

This magnificent clock is made of iron and has the words 'This column was constructed at the Stourbridge ironworks 1857' cast into its base.

Bedale is also just off the A1 and on the route into Wensleydale from Leeming Bar.

'See no trains are approaching before you attempt to cross the line' is the wise advice of the sign on the left of the level crossing at Grosmont, on the former Pickering-Whitby line.

We are looking up Lime Street from its junction with Castle Street; Coleridge's Cottage can be seen at the end on the left.

Little changed today, the pool at Stratford Park was opened in 1937 and has always been popular, with youngsters in particular, during the summer months.

Christchurch stands on two rivers, the Stour and the Avon, and gets its original name Twyneham, or Tweoxneham, from the Anglo-Saxon meaning 'the town between the two rivers'.

The Rose and Crown, now the Rupert Brooke, has been extended at the front, losing the outside seating area.

This earlier picture appears to have an open space where the Silver Dollar was later built. The neat chalets on the sea front have long gone.

This simple 30-foot high granite obelisk was originally unveiled in November 1925 to commemorate Warrington's servicemen lost in the 1914-18 War.

Note the early telephone poles on the left. The spire of the Norman church of St Peter and St Paul can be seen above the trees.