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In 1865 the Bristol Port & Pier Railway opened its single line between Avonmouth and Hotwells with intermediate stations at Sea Mills and Shirehampton.

Here we see an excellent example of the Kentish oast house, which was used for storing the hops picked from local fields. Wateringbury suffered a remarkable freak storm in August 1763.

On the right hand side, several businesses, including Pedley & White outfitters, occupy the Church House building, erected in the 1530s on the site of old tenements.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

In the absence of a pave- ment, the two men in the centre have found a safe spot whilst they put the world to rights.

A steamer, with a party of sightseers on board, has just left the quay heading down river. The women cluster at the stern under parasols. A little further along on the left is Cleopatra’s Needle.

Known today for its massive castle, one of Edward I's chain of fortresses built to subdue the Welsh, this town on the shore of the Menai Strait at the mouth of the River Seiont is now staunchly Welsh-speaking

It was served by the narrow gauge Tal-y-Llyn railway, the first of the slate railways of North Wales to be preserved. The railway runs inland from Tywyn on the Cardigan Bay coast.

In 1115, Hugue de Payens and Godfrey de Saint Adhemar founded a small group of Christian knights dedicated to the protection of pilgrims making the journey between Jericho and Jerusalem.

The assortment of gentlemen's wear ranges from smart business to working class layabout. On the right hand side there used to be a public washhouse and baths.

At the back of the great columns were screens closing off the side aisles. A stone screen or pulpitum straddled the nave, surounded by a gallery from which the gospel was sung on festival days.

This interior view of St Mary's Church looks east into the chancel past the central crossing under the tower.

At the summit of Lodge Hill to the north of the Upper Winchendon ridge is a French chateau.

Temple Bar was designed by Sir Christopher Wren in 1672, to replace the earlier City of London gate destroyed by the Great Fire, and was the last of the old city gates to survive.

John Palmer had been held in a cell in this building for four months - the charges related to his wantonly shooting a cock belonging to his landlord - before the authorities discovered that they were in

Before the Second World War this was regarded as the most remote village in the county, with its cottages and houses straggling along the western side of its long green.

The line of concrete lamp standards, surmounted by the new sodium streetlights, delineates the edges of the A24 as it ascends from its crossing over the Pyl brook towards Morden.

The sign tells us that Gisburn Road leads to Clitheroe, hub of the Pendle Forest area. Stone walls, finials, setts, dripstones and lintels characterise Chatburn and the neighbouring villages.

The manor of Barden lay to the south-west of Tonbridge. Barden Park House and its estate was in the possession of the Abrey family during the latter part of the 19th century.

Perched on the greensand ridge high above its village, the delightful All Saints' parish church is built in the dark brown stone extracted from the hills around it.

The names over the shops - Ivor Griffiths and Williams the tobacconist's, Charles Kay and Birt's Stores - remind us that the Forest of Dean lies between Wales and England, embracing elements

If we leave Daventry eastwards on the London turnpike, we arrive at Road Weedon, the portion of Weedon village on the main road.

Solid evidence of Victorian endeavour and values, Stephenson's great viaduct carries the Liverpool/Manchester railway over the Sankey Canal.