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At the north end of the promenade the domestic character survives better than in the next two photographs.

of the wealthiest in the midlands, and the sheer bulk of its buildings must have made an imposing sight on the Coventry skyline.The complex included a church about 400 ft long; a cloister on the north

Facing the churchyard on the north side of Church Street is the oldest building in the King's School, built just before 1528 as a chantry school.

To the north beyond Ingoldmells, and rather more genteel, is Chapel St Leonards, where my mother used to holiday in the 1930s.

This, constructed in 1564-66, pre-dated the canals in the north of England, where many people think the canal age started.

Here, we are on the tow path along the west bank, looking north towards Christchurch Meadow; it is the end of May, and the annual Eights Week, when the college boats race each other, is in full swing.

The lake is over three miles long and 100 feet deep; it stretches north-east towards the edges of the town, its borders wooded and its shores gravelled.

The reclining oak figure of Jesse in the background has been moved to the north transept to give it more prominence.

The castle was on a hill north of the church, comprising a motte and bailey with earth and timber fortifications.

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

The small horse-drawn carts carried less active holiday-makers onto the sands, but could probably be hired as an alternative to a donkey ride.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

This triangular piece of ground contains the old Bull Ring, and lies immediately north of the abbey gatehouse (out of picture, bottom left).

The half-timbered 17th-century King's Arms, on the left, lays claim, along with The King's Head in neighbouring North Street, to be the original Marquis of Granby in Charles Dickens' comic novel The Pickwick

The Roman bridge can be found down a footpath near the post office, and Fairy Bridge is north of the Red Pump Inn.

War Memorial Gardens were laid out to the north of Memorial Avenue between it and the Canch, as this stretch of the River Ryton is known.

While West Clandon with its railway station definitely has the air of a commuter village, East Clandon, facing the slope of the North Downs and surrounded by fields, still has a rural feel

This is Chorley's main street, the A6, Lancashire's main north to south road; it used to get very busy in the summer.

This small village, 3 miles north of Barnsley, is in the heart of the coal mining country. This view is hardly changed, except for a new retail development out of the picture on the left.

Circling Frome, we head north to the Mells Stream valley and Mells village, the home of the Horners, the nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner's family.

Linlithgow reached its final form during the reign of James V, though the north wing was reconstructed in the neo-classical style between 1618-1633.

Overlooking the Clyde to the north of the present town of Bothwell, the castle is still an impressive sight despite being a ruin.

This is the centre of the village; we are looking north to West Overton County Primary School with its toothed ridge line and bell tower just visible over it.