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Walsworth Road again, this time in 1922 and at the junction with Highbury and Verulam Roads.

A wonderful picture which shows Norfolk reeds in all stages of their growth and use: growing in the water, gathered into boats, and bundled and piled up to await transport further afield.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

The town was probably established as a port on the Wainfleet Haven by Bardney Abbey, but by the 15th century the haven silted up and the port declined.

The Pitched Stone Court at Raglan took its name from the pitching or cobbling of its surface.

Barges plied up and down the Wharfe delivering to the breweries, including John Smith's at Tadcaster, pictured here.

Defoe records that he saw 'perhaps two hundred sail of ships' lying by the town during the winter months, 'as safe as in a wet dock'.

A motorised narrow boat tows its butty along behind – on the open canal, the 'snubber' or towing rope was normally 60 feet long. They are heading south on the Grand Union Canal from Braunston Tunnel.

Builth Wells is in 'the county of rivers', and the River Wye lazily winds its way around this old spa town. Mineral waters were first discovered at Builth in the 1700s.

A fine white weatherboarded smock mill, it stands on a single-storey brick base with a stage at first-floor level and also around the cap.

The 15th-century Perpendicular west tower of the Church of the Holy Cross is remarkable for the three sculptures of heraldic lions, which crouch at the corners of the battlements.

We tend to think that castles arrived in Britain with the Norman conquerors, but, in fact, they were already in existence.

However, in the 14th century it caused some disquiet.

People are not too busy to stand in the road for a gossip. The men on the left are looking at a dog, probably a young lurcher. The bunting on the buildings would be for the 1953 Coronation.

Walsworth Road again, this time in 1922 and at the junction with Highbury and Verulam Roads.

This is another hospital recently demolished; it has been replaced by 95 homes. It was built in 1900 as a workhouse for the Hursley District Council at the northern end of Hursley Road.

Here we are looking at shops on the side opposite the Parade.

Here we have another view of the pavilion and miniature golf course at Fleming Park, where there were also football, rugby and hockey pitches and tennis courts.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr

Perched on the summit of Ludgate Hill at almost the highest point in the City,Wren’s masterpiece is the pride of London.

These features included a tower-keep separated from the rest of the castle by its own moat, multiangular towers, and ornate machiolations of the type seen here adorning the tops of the hexagonal corner

The Redcliffe had a hydropathic plunge bath on the seaward side of the building, connected to the house by a subway that filled with seawater at high tide.

Within 20 years, well-to-do commuter communities had sprung up along the lines; indeed, Alderley Edge village itself did not exist before the trains came - it is a Victorian creation dating from

The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.