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We are in the centre of the linear village of Long Preston, which is bisected by the busy A65 Skipton to Kirkby Lonsdale road.

All the hustle and bustle of a Tuesday market day in Settle is captured in this photograph, as Dales folk gather round the market cross and the stalls.

Overlooking the water is a row of 16th-century gabled and mullioned cottages, two farmhouses, a Victorian school and a former forge and pub that still shows the sign of the Dragon on the Wheel, a local

The tower of the church is 13th-century, but the unusual copper cupola was added in 1769 - it was designed by Anthony Keck. The main body of the church was demolished in the 1930s.

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

This was one of the principal cab ranks in Manchester, and licensing, fares and conditions were regulated by the local authority.

Opposite the well-known Miller of Mansfield hotel and pub, mainly Georgian with older parts, is the Goring Free Church, dated 1893, on the corner of Manor Road, still looking pretty fresh in this view

This Wiltshire village is known locally as the village of four crosses, all medieval.

Moving east, this view looks along the Embankment from Charing Cross Bridge to Cleopatra's Needle, an Egyptian obelisk of 1500 BC, given to Britain in 1819 by the Viceroy of Egypt, but only erected here

Outside the city walls and isolated from the rest of Portsmouth, Spice Island was once filled with sailors and press gangs.

It was constructed primarily of wood, except for the section that passes over the river bed, which is of iron girders and pile-driven steel cylinders.

This is another view westwards from opposite the Bull Hotel, with a sighting of Boy Scouts in hats (beside the lamp-post) and a pavement placard for Devonshire Cream Teas.

It seems a fitting picture to conclude this selection of photographs and illustrate the pace of life in days gone by.

Here we move back to the west of the High Street. This view looks along Cheam Road, with the Cheam Road Hall on the right.

From early times, fishing was an important part of Paignton's living and trading.

The church, which dates from 1840, lies to the south of the castle motte, and close to the busy A50 bypass.

By the end of the 19th century, Church Road was Burgess Hill's main shopping centre.

What wonderful examples of 1950s fashion are being sported by the middle-aged couple, right.

Sitting lofty and proud on the road to the famous dockyard, this majestic building, built in 1900, was once the centre of the town's administration until it moved to Strood during an amalgamation of Medway

In front of Broadgate's post-war development is a statue of Lady Godiva, still notorious for nudity after 1,000 years.

Behind the tree on the left is the church of St George, built during the reign of Queen Victoria.

St John's Church, by Benjamin Ferrey, was completed in 1853 as the centrepiece of Angell Town. It has a fine Perpendicular-style tower with chequer-work battlements and elegant corner pinnacles.

One of the three main rivers which drain the Broads, the Bure is typically slow-flowing; a large number of cruising boats from Collins & Son (in the background) confine their cruising to the River Bure

The church is unusual because the slope of the ground down to Puddingmore meant that the tower had to be built on firmer ground to the south-east of the building.