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The long main street of the town gives a feeling that this was a community grown up around a great highway.

The ancient village of Castle Combe is now famous for its motor racing circuit, but it still retains its old-world charm.

Judging by the quantity of lines carried on the telegraph poles, it would appear that a number of telephones had been installed in the area.

Today with a reduced pond and an enlarged green, there exists an excellent cricket pitch, all of which remains in full view of the much larger pub and restaurant now named 'Le Toad and Stumps

King Street is the location of the former market place, which was built over many years ago. Also along here is the timber-framed Saracen's Head.

If we remember that Bedfordshire was solidly on the side of the Parliamentarians during the English Civil War, it is surprising to find a number of references to King Charles's ability to hide himself

The sheer volume of boats in the South Bay is amazing. Most of them appear to be cobles, a traditional Yorkshire open boat easily identified by the square transom which has a reverse slope.

Post-war reconstruction and redevelopment of the Moor was just one of many schemes to rebuild the city. As well as on commercial and retail developments, a major effort was made on housing.

The smart uniformed soldier stands silent guard outside this building, built in 1878 on the corner of Fishergate and Melbourne Street.

The Basingstoke Canal was opened in 1794, and stretches for a length of 37 miles from the River Wey to Basingstoke. Notice how the canal crosses in an aqueduct over the main railway line.

Of Queen's Park's 43 acres, thirteen came from the two landowners, and a further parcel was purchased from the Earl of Crewe in 1904 to provided a park keepers' cottage, a bandstand and a

The Gatehouse of the present Bindon Abbey, in the grounds of its mediaeval predecessor, was built by Thomas Weld between 1794 and 1798.

Only three years earlier, the 15th- century half-timbered 'island' in the middle of the street had been removed in a road-widening measure.

In medieval times, Clipped Hedge was supposedly the only building situated on Hatfield Heath itself. The Heath was an area of common land criss-crossed by roads.

They were required to wear a blue gown and the silver badge of the Bear and Ragged Staff of the Warwick earldom.

One of Newbury's most striking landmarks, the tower was completed in the 1880s. On the corner is a sign prohibiting the use of traction engines.

During the Civil War, the parish church of St Nicolas was occupied by the Parliamentary troops and used as a prison, a hospital, and a guard room.

This view depicts the bustle in West Steet, with children and cycles, and a flock of sheep being driven uphill (left of centre). Market stalls for animals can be seen between the trees.

The freedom of the road, when roadside parking was an inalienable right, can be seen in a view westwards to the Town Hall (centre) from opposite the Golden Road Cafe (far left).

The local garage is in on the Green Shield stamp craze; you were given so many stamps depending on the value of your purchase, which you then stuck in a booklet, each booklet holding a given number of

The obelisk on the bridge and most of the buildings have since been replaced. The church tower belongs to the church of St Peter At Arches, demolished in 1933.

The warehouses of Boston have suffered in recent years; the ones on the right on the opposite bank have been converted into flats, but the distant one has been, like so many of its companions, demolished

In this view, the photographer looks south-east back past the corner of High Street to St John's Street and St John's 15th-century west tower. To the left is St Mary's Church spire.

Built in 1849, it replaced four arches of a medieval one, while to the right is Lord Burghley's Hospital, built in 1597 on the site of an older hospital founded in the 1170s.