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Woolworth's store, seen here at the end of this section of Kirkgate (centre), draws shoppers down this precinct past the shops on the right, built in the early 1960s.

Down the street on the left is the Octagon: originally a Georgian chapel, it was restored in 1951 as an exhibition centre and is now a photography gallery.

Located at the western end of the South Downs, Buriton captures the essence of the traditional English village. The pond, the pub and the church are all here.

Looking back down towards the market square in the distance, this view shows the old High Street prior to the 1980s modernisation.

The massive limestone buttresses of Shining Cliff look down on the junction of Middleton Dale with the road to Eyam on the left of the photograph.

This view looks down on the A6 trunk road, which passes across the centre of the picture, at Whatstandwell, seven miles west of Matlock.

This view looks from Market Square down Friargate.

By 1891 the local fleet was down to 174 boats employing 860 men and boys with an annual catch valued at just under £3000.

They disappeared during the Second World War to be melted down for munitions. The Prideaux garage remains, although their agencies now seem to be Jaguar and Austin.

This building was erected in 1911 when the original inn burnt down. There has been an inn on this site since the 12th century; it was originally a cider house, part of an orchard.

The design of this huge, ancient giant, on the South Downs near Eastbourne, is cleverly elongated vertically to counteract the effect of foreshortening when viewed from below the hillside.

This photograph gives us the opportunity to look down the street and into Hargreaves Street, where the GPO stands (54191, page 46).

Down below, on what was once marsh land, and an area known as Duke's Fields, is not only the Manchester Ship Canal but the Waver Navigation Canal and the Runcorn Docks.

These were the days when blazers and boaters were de rigeur for a trip down the river to Eccleston.

The photograph shows an area to the south of the original village as it drops down towards Tally Ho Corner, but just a little to the north, among the modern shops, are 18th-century houses and a fine 16th-century

A delivery boy rests with his bicycle between rounds on the right, while down the street a policeman looks out for traffic to direct.

The old tracks from the neighbouring village of Uplyme are the original routes into the town before the construction of the present road along the coast.

Local dry stone walling, brick and Swithland slate are all here in abundance, as the road drops down from Maplewell Hall to the village centre.

This view down into Flint is noteworthy for a number of reasons. We can see the heavy industrial scene, the chimney stacks and the Courtaulds building in the distance (left).

Near to this bridge in 1860, a fight took place that has gone down in the history of boxing as one of the important fights of the century.

The town, built in oolitic limestone, is a most attractive one: its streets curve up and down hill picturesquely.

All the way north from Burnham to Brean Down, the six miles of road behind the sand dunes and beaches has a string of bungalows, chalets, shops, caravan parks, amusement parks and holiday camps, as well

Here the photographer looks down West Street to Colmer's Hill (left), with the Lily Hotel projecting into the highway as it narrows to a normal width near the bottom of the hill.

Take a stroll down Church Lane and you can see that the scene on the right of this photograph has not changed at all.