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This was built in 1901 at the junction of Newton Road, King Street and Cornard Road. The police establishment comprised an inspector, a sergeant, and four constables.

Turning right at the top of the High Street into London Road, and taking the first road to the left, we find ourselves in King's Ride, which would take us onto Barossa Common.

Bottomley did not pay his bills on time, and sometimes not at all, but he played the role of a genial squire with gusto; besides building estate cottages, he also bred race horses.

Stevens's Boatyard on the east end of Nag's Head Island also incorporated the landing stage for the Crown and Thistle Hotel in Bridge Street, some hundred yards away from the river.

These timber-clad cottages, standing at the foot of the white cliffs, are part of a small community which developed both as a bathing resort and as a residential quarter in the closing years

We are looking south-eastwards from the Yetminster road towards the mediaeval Hamstone cross in a triangle of cobbles (centre), with roads at the junction signed to Sherborne (left) and Chetnole (right

The parish church of St Martin is described as 'Anglo-Saxon origins, c1200, C13, C15, restored 1850' (Department of Heritage List). The former school, now the village hall, is dated 1846.

The priory was founded by William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke, and it was never to be promoted to the status of abbey.

Five miles west is Bruton, a town built mainly of Lias limestone, bisected by the River Brue.

Much more pedestrian in style is St Luke's, at the junction of St Luke's Road and Norfolk Road to the north of the town centre, built to serve the new suburb beyond what became Kidwell's Park.

This is an interesting view of All Saints' Church at the south end of the Green.

Another great Nonconformist preacher dominates the Square at the opposite end of the High Street to John Bunyan.

Situated at what is now the southern end of this expanded village, the church with its elegant recessed spire dates for the greater part from the earlier 15th century.

Almost no building work was carried out at Dudley Castle for the 200 years between 1340 and 1540, but in 1540 John Dudley, later Duke of Northumberland, set about rebuilding the residential block on

Other less literate residents of Grantchester are also remembered. Edward Wright, the village baker, gave his name to this row of cottages in the High Street.

St Elphin's crowning glory is its spire, soaring over the landscape at a height of about 281 feet, making it the third highest parish church spire in England.

The library and museum are on the right; the library opened in 1952. A khaki-clad ëTommyí, a bronze statue by S Nicholson-Babb RBS, is the townís war memorial.

This scene in Wallasey Village, near the junction with St John's Road, shows an old thatched cottage typical of the time.

Two little girls take a brisk walk on the prom at the turn of the century in their best holiday clothes.

Although technically part of West Yorkshire, the market town of Ilkley, standing at the entrance to Wharfedale, is best-known as the gateway to the Dales.

Around the Market Place at this time were a large number of pubs used by the town's seafarers (South Shields had the largest number of seamen as a proportion of its population than anywhere else in Britain

Simply elegant, this is the last of a superb series of 1930s underground stations extending along the northern section of the Piccadilly Line, including Arnos Grove, Southgate and Oakwood, all designed

The compact market place on the north side of the town is enhanced by its octagonal timber market cross, built in 1903 in celebration of Edward VII's coronation to replace a stone Gothic cross of 1826.

This view looks east towards the junction of Lordship Lane and Bruce Grove.