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This photograph shows a Torbay at war. Seaplanes from the newly-formed Royal Air Force are pulled up on the beach - perhaps being used either for recruitment or anti-submarine duties.

This photograph shows a Torbay at war. Seaplanes from the newly-formed Royal Air Force are pulled up on the beach - perhaps being used either for recruitment or anti-submarine duties.

At dawn on 13 February 1692, soldiers commanded by Campbell of Glen Lyon killed at least 40 out of the 200 MacDonalds living in this glen.

The Gardens at Dunoon offer a little peace and tranquillity, compared to the hustle and bustle of the town.

Here we see Baxtergate at the junction of St Sepulchre Gate and the High Street.

Up until 1810, Ipswich's Butter Market was indeed the scene for the sale of butter and other products. At this time, it is one of the main shopping streets in the town.

Are the village women, right, considering a visit to the Anchor pub for a glass of cider?

At the centre of a broad vale, rich in market gardens and fruit orchards, and to which it gives its name, lies Evesham.

When this photograph was taken, Blakeney was still a small trading port; it could accommodate vessels of 150 tons burden to unload and load coal, oil-cake and manure at the quay.

The Wye joins the Derwent at Rowsley, and this photograph shows the smaller bridge over the River Wye to the south of the village.

Skewen sits at the heart of a region of foundries and oil refin- ing. The village expanded when a major refinery was built close by at Llandarcy.

There is everything you could want in one terrace of highly disparate buildings here in the centre of the village, from the whitewashed Midland Bank at the far end to some 'Players Please' at Rowland's

At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill. Stagecoaches would have been forced to stop here to pay their toll at the toll house overlooking the junction.

Pargetting is a feature of this delightful building, which used to house the village fire engine (which was not famed for speed—it was often a case of 'first find your horse').

Nearby lies the churchyard; here we can find the grave of James Parker, who was brutally murdered outside the village in 1886.

The wide High Street of the town of Skipton on the River Aire was the scene of a weekly livestock market until well into the 20th century, but it now accommodates a general street market on Mondays, Wednesdays

Named for Lulworth Castle, over the hill at East Lulworth, the old hostelry at West Lulworth is an 18th- century thatched building behind a neat wooden fence.

Returning to the Square, we are once again looking at Market Street.

A three-masted barque and a brig lie at anchor below Hall Walk.

This is a double hammer beam roof, an exclusively East Anglian structure of which Suffolk has two-thirds of the total.

A 1947 Humber Hawk makes its way off the ferry. The ferry still runs from Lymington to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight, and takes 30 minutes.

This is a quaint corner of Loftus, which here looks totally unsuited for the traffic of the present day.

A number of English kings stayed at the castle on their frequent visits to Hastings. William Rufus held court here, at the head of his army, awaiting a chance to slip across to Normandy.

The Kingsway Arcade (1916) is on the left. King George V and Queen Mary visited the town in July 1912, but they spent only fifteen minutes here for a reception at the Town Hall.