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This is the view the big houses saw, with the new rows of houses which had helped to add nearly 50% to the town's population in ten years.

As far as the St Neots area was concerned these were mainly in agricultural work, but the appointment that attracted the most notice was that of a Mrs Phillips as the town's first postwoman.

The east window is the work of Butterfield, who restored the church in 1853, ten years before he began work on Aldbourne.

Though only a couple of miles to the north of Newcastle, Gosforth had a character and identity of its own.

The coming of the railway to Broxbourne in 1840 had further stimulated the growth of the village, and demand from London-bound commuters heading for Liverpool Street and St.

This reredos is a modern addition depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds (left) and the Entombment of Christ.

Mansfield lies some 14 miles north of Nottingham and to the west of Sherwood Forest.

Before the advent of the car moved shoppers to out-of- town stores, main streets such as this displayed a rich multiplicity of goods, with regional shops trading beside the more well-known

Some of the cottages in St Nicholas Terrace, which is located to the north of the church, are 18th-century, and one of them is dated 1771.

Even though it was obviously a busy time of day, it hardly seems necessary to have a Keep Left sign at this point.

This long and irregular village stands on either side of a switchback rise in the otherwise dead-straight Roman road that comprises this section of the A229.

This is another of Benhilton's 1870 villas in attractive wooded grounds. By 1898 Woodside House, in Woodside Road, had become a small private school.

This pretty scene with its unmetalled road and air of tranquillity could almost prevail in modern Totternhoe.

A tranquil setting for a fine pink granite church, mainly of the 15th century, with its solid buttressed and battle- mented tower rising in four stages.

Cobham is architecturally not the equal of the similarly named Chobham.

This Wednesday morning 9 o'clock photograph is the first view we have in this book of Sheep Street in the far corner of the Square.

The vaguely Art Deco style of Shirley House (left) contrasts with the Gothic look of the Baptist church, but Stratford Road today is a much more eclectic mix than it was in the 1960s.

This priory of Augustinian canons was founded in 1171. The gatehouse of 1320-25 is the only structure that remains. The other side has magnificent flatwork decoration and rows of heraldry.

Just off the main road through unspoilt Bilsdale is the northern part of the village of Chop Gate. Bilsdale Hall is hidden behind the trees (centre).

The inscription on the base of this ancient cross tells us that it was renovated and re-erected 'To the glory of God and to commemorate the XIII hundredth year of the re-introduction of Christianity into

Punch and Judy (centre right) first arrived in Lowestoft in 1886, but they moved to the south side of the pier in 1902.

All the main roads converge here, and Ampthill's history as a coaching stop is still visible in the form of the White Hart hotel on the right of this picture.

The Cartwright Memorial Hall in Lister Park, Bradford, built during the time of Bradford's pre-eminence as one of the major woollen manufacturing towns of the world, now houses one of the city's best museums

This view shows some of the 18th-century buildings and defences. Butt's Battery (1708-13) is just out of the picture on the lower right.