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The story of the demise of Dunwich, in medieval times a prosperous port until the ravages of the North Sea gradually demolished its soft, sandy cliffs, is one of the most romantic of the Suffolk coast.

The Calendars of State Papers Domestic for 9 May 1651 record the proposal for the demolition of Nottingham Castle and the despatch of a troop of dragoons to undertake the task.

Every possible mode of transport can be seen at the junction on the A47 main road to Yarmouth from Norwich.

Built in 1796-8 on the site of the original moat, the Shire Hall of Lancaster Castle is a fascinating building.

In the distance, on the right, is Bank Parade house, once the home of Sir James Mackenzie (1853-1925).

Winchcombe was once the walled capital of Winchcombeshire, whose abbot sat in the Saxon parliament; it was the site of the martyrdom of Kenelm, the child king of the Mercians, who was allegedly

The three piers of the nave nearest to us were retained from the earlier 14th-century church when the great rebuilding took place in the late 15th century.

This view was taken in the same year as G66012 from the opposite end of the Applegarth at Whitby Lane, with the kissing gates in the foreground.

Stonemasons and glaziers from France and Italy built St Wilfred's first stone church on this site in 672. Reconstruction began in 1069, followed by the building we see today from 1180.

By the end of the Victorian period the scale of amenities offered by larger boarding houses, such as the Eardley Boarding Establishment at Splash Point, often overlapped with those of newly erected

Not part of the University, Westminster College is one of several theological colleges in Cambridge; this one is the college of the Presbyterian Church of England.

Some of the most notable developments of the new millennium have taken place at the Eynesbury end of the town.

The London Evening News vendors' placards stridently announcing 'Mahon: Today's Evidence' reveal that this photograph was taken in the last weeks of July 1924.

TODAY THE RUSHES seems just a busy stretch of road linking the town centre to the main road to Derby.

In the foreground on the left is the Huntingdon Co-operative store, but overshadowing the whole of the street is the spire of Trinity Church.

Skirted by the Icknield Way on the right, the expanse of Therfield Heath originally stretched from the boundary of Baldock to Royston.

This picture, taken from the walkway of the bridge, gives us a panoramic view of the Alexandra Docks and the residential area of Pillgwenly.

The town clock has been given a number of nicknames, including `the Iron Duke of Tredegar`, because of the small profile of the Duke of Wellington on the base.

We are on the peaceful, reed-fringed shores of Rydal Water, near Grasmere. Rydal was the home of William Wordsworth from 1813 until his death in 1850, and Rydal Water was one of his favourite lakes.

The village sits astride the A6, only two miles north of Mountsorrel, and although deeply embedded in granite country, the buildings in the photograph lack any of that hard-edged quality.

To the right of Romsey's Corn Exchange, built in 1864, is a glimpse of Romsey Abbey, which until the mid 16th century was home to a Benedictine order of nuns.

St Osyth (generally pronounced 'Toosey') recognised the benefits of tourism early on, as witnessed by the rack of picture-postcards for sale on the left.

These two views of the steep high street as it winds up the hill towards Canterbury show some of the rich assortment of buildings built of brick or black-and-white half timbering.

An Edwardian lady relaxes in a meadow on Colthouse Heights, on the eastern shores of Esthwaite Water, looking across to the knoll of Roger Ground, near Hawkshead.