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At the junction of the A12 and B1177 (centre right) is an advertisement for the Spread Eagle Hotel, kept by George Zessel, whose father had the White Hart at Wickham Market.

Written records of St Mary's Church date back to 1210. The High Street is remarkably quiet, but it is captured at a time of largely horse-drawn transport.

Here we see a paddle steamer moored at the harbour wall.

The 1920s were to bring about something of a mini-boom in the amount of traffic using Gloucester, for it was then that a number of companies, including National Benzole, opened oil terminals at the docks

The fountain and pond are situated at the front of the art gallery at the end of a ribbon of lawns and rose beds known as the Diamond.

In 1815 Lord Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke at Seaham Hall; the marriage is recorded in the church register at St Mary's. Byron hated Seaham; and the marriage was not made in heaven.

We are standing on Magdalene Bridge looking at the Cam.

This fine bridge is one of the most dazzling structures spanning London's river and was constructed in 1862 at the cost of £250,000.With the waters at low tide as they are here, critics have

Stanwell lies on the northern side of the Staines reservoirs, and is now under the flight path of Heathrow Airport. However, it still manages to retain much of its village atmosphere.

This was built for the twelfth Earl of Eglinton by John Patterson of Edinburgh in c1798.

At the end of Kings Ride we find the Barossa Common.

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

The pavement, the flowerbed and some of the road represent the location of buildings demolished in 1938 that hid the old school and St John's Hospital buildings from public view.

A solitary horse and cart is the only traffic at this wide and usually busy junction.

The service road alongside The Parade has now been incorporated into the busy A217, looking south towards today`s traffic lights at the junction with Reigate Road.

Victoria Pier used to be known as Crab Head until it was renamed following a visit by Princess Victoria with her mother the Duchess of Kent.

At the time of the photograph the building was known as Abbey Farm; it had been the home of the Higgins family since 1786.

In 1978 the section of the pier between the concert hall at the end, from which this view was taken, was destroyed in storms.

There was certainly a castle here of sorts in 1106, as Robert Curthose, elder son of the Conqueror, was held prisoner here after being defeated at Tinchebrai.

Preston cheese factors favoured the Fylde for their milk, and set up a cheese factory in Inskip to which farmers from all over the Fylde brought supplies.

Chelmsford has been the county town of Essex since at least the 13th century. Here we see the busy High Street in the days long before it was pedestrianised.

The battlemented single-storey structure immediately in front of the west portal is the Galilee Chapel, which dates from 1175.

Leaving Daventry northwards along the London to Holyhead turnpike, we arrive at Braunston, the hub of the canal network.

Blundellsands beach forms part of the sixteen miles of sand stretching from Waterloo to Southport.