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The huge Becontree Estate, the largest planned housing estate in Europe, was built during the 1920s and 1930s on a green field site.

Clacton's Christchurch was only four years old at the time of this photograph. Closer to us stands the lifeboat house, built in 1878 with an endowment from the Freemasons.

Hedingham's dominant feature, the enormous castle keep, looms behind these cottages just to the right, out of picture. Bones were recently unearthed in a garden at Pye Corner.

The artist Helen Allingham (1848-1926) lived for seven years during the 1880s at nearby Sandhills.

The beautiful mature trees make an attractive setting in high summer along High Road at its junction with White Hill, extreme left, and Hogscross Lane.

Frank Butcher`s newsagent and tobacconist shop at the north end of High Road has a well stocked window but alas has now been demolished, and the other shops have closed.

Although the River Wyre is here quite wide, it could be forded at low water, and Shard derives from a dialect word meaning 'cattle crossing'.

Although called Wyre View, the outlook is across Morecambe Bay to the Lake District.

Well before that, the Roman Fosse Way threaded its way through the town. In later years stage coaches halted at the 18th-century George Inn.

The grace of Fleet Street in the previous picture is counterpointed by the timeless nature of this rural view, taken the same year on the outskirts of Torquay, possibly at Cockington.

The fishing fleet, having waited patiently for a breeze, can at last set sail in pursuit of the herring.

The Gate leads directly to Harnham Bridge over the River Avon.

Bursledon village consists of two distinct halves—the new and the old.

Controversial at the time, it was representative of the modern movement in architecture, and is described as having a 'stripped classical' style.

We are looking at the area that was between West End and Central Piers just before they both fell foul of the weather.

The pub which gave this important road junction its name has existed since at least 1765, when it was used for court sittings.

The buildings in the foreground, including the Duke's Head on the right, are in Butts Road, while Olsen's Stores (left) and those nearer the town are in the High Street.

Apart from the ferry, Greenway Quay has been fairly quiet, with the exception of two periods.

That shop jutting out on the left is now Age of Elegance - as you enter look at the doorstep and you see, in mosaic, 'International Stores'. When this photograph was taken that's what it was.

Back to the river and downstream of Reading, Sonning Lock itself has been entirely renewed but the cottages remain.

The curious onion-domed extension to the Town Hall, between it and the church has long been demolished, but it serves to point up the quality of Alfred Waterhouse's 1875 Town Hall.

A car passes up the High Street, while a horse-drawn conveyance comes down the hill.Wright's Garage, on the right, emphasises that shortly after the First World War the internal combustion engine had

Above the vestry door is a superbly carved Norman tympanum showing St Michael overcoming Satan. It is thought to date from around 1120.

This photograph shows a similar view to O51014, but much has changed in the intervening five years.