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Nearer to the camera, the High Street narrows at the junction with West St Helen Street.

The setting south-eastwards from the Mill Pond includes tenements in former Church Farm (left) and cottages on Church Hill (centre), though those below Wyvern Cottage have since been replaced by the

The wooden cycle stand is positioned in front of the bay window with its tempting display. The post office closed c1972.

The market is now filled with parked cars, vans, lorries and buses, with at least seven traffic signs in sight.

The most surprising feature of this busy shopping scene is the complete lack of any vehicles.

It is difficult looking at this view to imagine that it was ever once covered in woodland with small fisheries along the shore.

The Victorian villas on the Edge can clearly be seen at the end of the road and across the field, then known as Lifeless Moss.

Nuneaton's first market was granted to the local prioress by Henry III.

The Cross in Geddington's village centre was built in 1294 to commemorate Queen Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I.

Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which at one time employed 12,000 people. The sheer size of the building indicates the importance of the railway to the town.

This delightful stretch of towpath, with its lines of quaint cottages and period houses, is where the Kennet & Avon Canal enters Newbury on its way to meet the Thames at Reading.

The off-licence on the corner of Lackford Road and Station Parade no longer sells Watney`s ales, and currently remains empty with a chartered architect`s name by the door.

The bathing huts here were nearly the scene of a diplomatic incident in 1878. Alfred Price, son of the huts` owner, tried to stop a young man throwing stones at the huts, and a fight broke out.

Gawcott, a mile and a half south-west of Buckingham, lies at the head of a stream (flowing north into the River Ouse) whose course runs along the right-hand side of this road.

But it is an interesting combination, and views from the inn from its position at the top of Rodborough Common are a delight.

Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1500s, this became the parish church for the town.

One local resident of two centuries ago was Philip Salkeld, who won the Victoria Cross at Delhi in 1857.

St Ives mackerel and pilchard drivers were of a similar design, the latter being the smaller version. Both were carvel-built.

Today just the house overlooking the river remains, and it is difficult even to imagine that there was once a wharf and steps at the other side.

St Oswald's Church sits right at the end of a very rough cobbled road, hence the street is called The Cobbles.

At the time these photographs were taken, Warrington was still part of Lancashire but, after the boundaries were changed in the 1970s, it became part of Cheshire.

A paddle steamer momentarily obscures Penarth Head on route to Cardiff where it will join the massed ranks of vessels from all around the world.

Originally, St James', Altham had served the Clayton-le-Moors area, but the expanding population of Clayton led John Mercer, a devout Methodist, to realise the need for an Anglican church.

Kingsgate stands at the gap in the cliffs closest to the North Foreland. Its present name dates back to 1683 when Charles II landed here—it was formerly St Bartholomew's Gate.