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The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

Now very much part of Lancashire, the village of Slaidburn was in Yorkshire at the time of our photograph.

The Old Mill 1906 This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the Recreation Ground.

A little further north along Albert Embankment we get this wonderful view of the houses of Parliament.

Only the tower survives of the original church. The building was rebuilt and restored on a number of occasions, first in 1630 and later in 1870 to a plan by Blomfield.

This splendid town hall was burned down in 1947; it was built in the Market Place on the site of the old town hall, which was demolished in 1862.

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

This narrow but busy street is located between the Market Place and Wide Bargate, and is for pedestrians only now - the traffic lights have gone.

Along the north bank of the Canch is a footpath that leads east to Priorswell Road, with the Memorial Gardens on the right bank behind the trees that line it.

Construction of the Church of St Edward, King and Martyr was commenced in the 14th century but the building was not completed until the late 15th or early 16th centuries.

Next to the gardener's house is the present-day rose garden, with delightful walkways and tropical houses. The last occupant of Thornes House was the Morley MP, Charles Milnes Gaskell.

The ancient harbour of Tenterden, this was once a shipbuilding centre and was visited by Henry VIII in 1538.

This is the brick lower storey of a windmill built around 1800 by a Crawley millwright, Morley, and situated east of the recreation ground.

Poltross Burn, which flows through the middle of the village, marks the border between Northumberland and Cumbria.

We are now further west in The Narrow, as this part of High Street was called. Woolworths, on the site of the Lion Inn, can just be seen beyond the third shop blind.

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War. In the 16th century Sir John Tufton entertained Queen Elizabeth I over two days.

This is the time when Dereham was in its prime.

In the 1950s a new and busy road separated the two villages of Little and Great Eccleston.

The River Ribble is one of the major rivers in the north-west of England.

Here we have a fine aerial view of the large No 9 dock and the area around it.

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

Inside this expansive parish church the many signs of the Early English era are manifest in the pulpit, for instance, which is inscribed and dated 1631 on a large arched panel with a good helping

Opposite the old Salisbury Arms public house in Fore Street stands St Etheldreda's church.

The clean forceful lines of the neo- classical new town hall were in marked contrast to its rather sedate and friendly looking predecessor, built by the Luton architects John Williams & Sons