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The early 18th-century Cock Inn may have been built as a public house - its brick has been colour-washed white. Next to it is the garage selling Cleveland petrol and the village shop.

This photograph looks from the west towards St Austell in its rural setting.

There was great rejoicing when the new stone and iron extensions were finally erected in 1912, having first been suggested by William Scoresby the elder (1760- 1829) a hundred years before

The Institute for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge has stood up well to the passing of time.

This tranquil scene, with pleasure craft moored along the towpath, contrasts with the activity here in the Victorian period.

This view was taken further down the shopping precinct. In the distance are high-rise flats.

The Baptists have been recorded in Bluntisham since the mid 17th century; a Meeting House was built on this site in 1787, and rebuilt in 1874.

Batley was the north's shoddy town: its prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags.

This was a coaching inn on the London to Norwich turnpike, now the A11, since at least the mid 18th-century. The gabled red brick front dates from c1680.

Bright yellow bands of geological strata known as the Bridport Sands make Burton Cliff one of the most distinctive landforms of the Dorset coast.

Clayton West was typical of many South Yorkshire coalfield villages in the 1950s, when this photograph was taken.

Built between 1804 and 1844 by Richard Crichton and the Dickson brothers for Charles and James Moray, Abercairny was a break with what had become a traditional approach to the design of country houses.

Putting ashore the catch is a perennial attraction for bystanders on any jetty. These, judging by the smartness of their dress (complete with pocket handkerchief), are clearly not fishermen.

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

The paddle-steamer is not approaching the Cobb wall on a busy day.

The trees have grown, and the street signs have changed, but the church, with its substantial 15th-century ragstone west tower and mid 18th-century brick-faced body, remains substantially unaltered behind

The photograph is taken from the Norfolk bank of the Wellstream that flows into Wisbech. A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

The photograph is taken from the Norfolk bank of the Wellstream that flows into Wisbech. A later brick front was added to the 17th-century White Lion.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

A brick tower mill, this was photographed at about the time it was purchased by a mill enthusiast for preservation. The brick tower is tarred black for extra weather protection.

Bootscrapers, timber-sashed windows and moulded brick arched heads to the ground floor windows and doors provide a quality so often lacking in modern housing.

From further west this view gives a good idea of the Georgian and later brick frontages added to the mainly 17th century timber-framed cottages lining the High Street and giving the town its distinctive

Here we see another view of the main street. The jaunting car tells of the recent changes, and the lamps tell of a gasworks only waiting to be expanded.

The Norman church of St John the Baptist stands in the north of Leeds. It was built around 1150 on the site of a Saxon church, and the south porch was added a decade later.