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A whole row of hop vines have been pulled to the ground ready for the nimble fingers of these workers to detach the hops and bundle them into bushels ready for transportation to local breweries.

In the 1920s, when the Lickeys were at the height of their popularity, several tea rooms were in business, and this one was still going strong in the 1950s.

For a short time in the middle of the 19th century, copper was mined in Dry Cove above Tilberthwaite.

Before chain stores dominated Britain's high streets, shoppers could choose from a variety of family traders, as this 1950s street scene illustrates.

Ormesby was once an important market town whose inhabitants were privileged to be exempt from county service, and from contributing funds towards the maintenance of the Shire Knights.

This shows the raised riverbank as a place of recreation, with seats, shelters and a bandstand.

Situated at a height of 650ft above sea level, Chipping Norton is Oxfordshire's highest town.

The town developed with the success of the railway, and thus the centre is relatively modern.

We are in Queen Street and looking across to the High Street, where we see the spire of All Saints Church.

This street's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'cepin', meaning a 'place of trade', and here its shops include opticians, tobacconists, dry cleaners, book and toy shops and the Crusty Loaf bakers with its

Viewed from Watledge, the Railway Hotel is shown clearly in the centre of the picture, with C W Jones' coal office behind the chimney to the right.

Earith is where the two great drainage cuts of Fenland, the Old and New Bedford Rivers, take off from the Great Ouse.

The curious Mathematical Bridge across the Cam, built on geometric principles, and originally held together - so the story goes - without any fixing devices.

Until the beginning of the 19th century the only crossing of the Hamble was by ferry.

The upper floors of the buildings on the right have hardly changed at all since this photograph was taken.

The Victorian poet Horace Smith wrote these lines on leaving the village: 'Farewell, sweet Binstead!

Main Street c1955 Victorian visitors had a number of inns to choose from when seeking sustenance in the town, some acting as fully-fledged hotels.

Sleaford has fragments of a castle, built by Alexander, the princely Bishop of Lincoln, in the 1120s, but its function as a market town for north Kesteven is undimmed.

Little of the Roman town or medieval city remains, as Chichester was almost entirely rebuilt by the end of the 18th century.

The Swan, near the river in Lower Fittleworth and recorded in a document dated 1640, is possibly one of the two alehouses mentioned earlier in 1536.

This is the source of the Teifi, famous for trout and eels.

Harry Bebington was the first chairman of Billericay Urban District Council (established 1934).

Green-painted iron gates inscribed 'In memory of the fallen' open into the Garden of Remembrance from Plymouth Road, just round the corner from the bus station.

With fewer people about on a less sunny day, the three tiers of the sea front are clearer to see, with the road and pavement to the left separated from the wide Promenade below by trim hedges.