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Twickenham Museum Efforts to establish a museum for Twickenham stemmed from the creation of the Museum of Richmond.

These shops face the small bus shelter in the centre of S258082. Above G W Ager's 'Complete Outfitters' is an advertisement for Dunlop boots.

The next sequence of photographs looks at the picturesque village of Geddington.

The name 'saltern' suggests that this was a place where early inhabitants of the island would come to the seashore in search of salt for the winter preservation of meat.

Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some

A ground floor view of the Long Room showing the flanking busts of scholars. Famous students of Trinity include Oliver Goldsmith, Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Oscar Wilde and Samuel Becket.

Because of the unstable nature of the cliffs above Bournemouth's beaches, many of the buildings were built at a distance from the cliff edge.

The smooth slopes of Skiddaw dominate the northern Lakeland town of Keswick in this view from Castle Head.

The unchanging beauty of the Winster Valley, with its meadows, rolling hillsides, dry stone walls and scattered dwellings, is entirely typical of the soft countryside of the southern fringe of the Lake

This offers a closer view of the southern end of the High Street.

On a steep hillside commanding views of the Weald, north-west of Ashford, this charming village was near the seat of the Dering family at the now-vanished Surrenden Dering a mile away.

Thorney was part of the Duke of Bedford's estate, and played a focal part in the construction of the Bedford Levels in the 17th century.

The village of Cuddesdon had been the official home of the Bishops of Oxford for over 400 years, earning it the title of Oxfordshire's 'Holy Village'.

The steep slopes of The Bank provide a grandstand view of Baildon, a typical Pennine town standing on the edge of Baildon Moor, famous for its enigmatic prehistoric 'cup and ring'-marked stones.

Lying three miles north east of the Trent, the Minster was founded by the Archbishop of York in the early 12th century and is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful Norman buildings in England.

This was once the seat of the Fitzalans, hereditary High Stewards of Scotland.

The father-in-law of Squire Clifton, Lord Lowther, and also Lady Cecily Lowther, were remembered in the naming of Lowther Gardens. This ornamental pond was a transformation of the farm pond.

Not far from Batley, once home to the world famous Variety Club, Roberttown was part of the industrial heavy woollen district to the south of Leeds.

Looking at this view, it is difficult to envisage the hamlet of Keninton mentioned in the Feet of Fines in 1232.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan

St Andrew's Church stands on the high ground to the west of the River Ash's water meadows. Adjacent, to the north, is the old palace which belonged to the Bishop of London.

The name of the town of Letchworth appears to derive from 'lecha weorthig', 'the farm by the rivulet'.

An evocative view from the north-east of the part of the town immediately below the Castle and the impressive Castle and prison itself.

This is the corner of Piccadilly, where it meets the top of Market Street. On the left is one of Lewis's entrances. Pauldens, in the centre, moved here after a fire destroyed their store in 1957.