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This fine study of a horse and cart at Handley Pond portrays a rural scene that could have been observed at any period during the last several centuries.

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

These are the gaunt Victorian lines of the Coastguard Station at West Bay, looking eastwards towards East Cliff, with Rocket Houses seaward from it (right).

A welcome stop for many a traveller, including the journalist William Cobbett who in 1822, recorded “at Binfield I stopped to breakfast at a very nice country inn called The Stag and Hounds”.

The archway on the left led to Heacham Hall. John Rolfe of the Hall married the Indian princess Pocahontas in Jamestown, Virginia in 1614, and brought her back to England.

Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.

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.

Work on the canal at Gnosall began in 1830. One of the main problems facing the engineers was that they would have to bore a 690yd tunnel at Cowley.

Bingley was a busy mill town; at one time these numbered nineteen. Here we look in envy at this quiet road - these days it is hard to see the tarmac.

The Village 1940 Beyond Williton, our route follows the western edge of the Quantock Hills back towards Taunton.

Finedon has had a market charter since at least 1294 and the older part of the town, pictured here, lies at the west end.

The River Dee rises at Bala, and makes an 80-mile dash for the sea, sweeping through a dangerous switchback of rapids and rocks to Llangollen.

Here we see a busy scene at the height of the tourist season. Carriages come close to bursting at the seams with passengers.

With a beautifully attired young lady at its centre, this photograph brilliantly captures the fin de siecle elegance of the seafront.

Kelham Hall was designed by Sir Gilbert Scott to replace an earlier structure destroyed by fire in the late 1850s.

There is never a shortage of children to enjoy the sandy delights of Dymchurch beach. This fashionable holiday destination was home at this time to the Great War artist Paul Nash.