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Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney bridge from the dockyards at the end of a wortking day. It resembles scene from Lowry. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the distant background.

The ruined monastery at Buildwas is the most complete of all such ruins in the county.

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

A lace maker works at a floral sprig of Honiton lace outside her cottage door at Beer in South Devon.

The awnings are out at the far end of the street to protect the stock in the shop windows from the summer sunshine, and in the foreground we can see frames for the awnings that have not been put up yet

The block at the corner is one of the latest boarding houses, and has clearly pushed back some older buildings.

From Wells to Blakeney, a great sand barrier holds back all but the most vicious tides. The quay at Wells is now stranded a mile from the open sea.

We have entered the abbey at the west - this sequence of views goes from west to east, starting in the nave. Henry III's abbey replaced the Norman one started by Edward the Confessor.

The tile-hung Dog and Pheasant pub (left) faces out on to a six-acre cricket ground in the centre of this lovely hamlet between Milford and Haslemere.

We are at the eastern edge of the Ashdown Forest.Waiting at the bus stop is a nearly new open-top Leyland double-decker bus with an out- side staircase.

Our photographer is standing on the bridge over the lock which separates the dock from the Lancaster Canal basin.

At Nos 1 & 3 High Street was J H Cole & Sons, a drapers (left). It was a high- class shop, and offered many services.

Within view of their parents' caravans groups of children could play unsupervised.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

West Byfleet is more stylish with its architecturally-considered parade of shops and flats: this is quite a successful composition, with occasional timber-framed accents.

Along the Marlow Road at the west end of Kidwell's Park is the former Technical School, dated 1895.

The small civil airport at Lympne was developed from the wartime fighter base, prior to the enormous expansion of London's Heathrow and Gatwick airports, for short cross-channel flights.

Car No 118 of the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co heads for St Augustine's Bridge.

The South Cliff Tramway offered an alternative means of escape from the beach to the Esplanade; the other way up was by the 224 steps cutting through the Spa Gardens.

The high banks along many stretches of this great river confirm its habit of flooding.

Formerly, a railway line from the station to the slate quarries ran across by the mound (centre).

Here we have a close-up of the Eagle Building, so called on account of the 8ft-wide eagle in terra-cotta placed at the top.

This view, similar to 77605, shows the bakehouse ranges before early 20th-century repair and changes to the old leaded windows.

Boscombe developed to the east of Bournemouth in mid-Victorian times, attracting the wealthy and fashionable including Sir Percy Florence Shelley, the son of the poet.