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A workman (centre) scythes the grass on the village green at Wensley.

But when fierce onshore winter storms arrive, as they did most devastatingly in 1953, the householders are made all too aware of their vulnerability to the forces of nature.

In the 1960s two large housing estates were laid out on the east and west of the main street, and in 1972 a Village Society was formed to oppose the continued growth.

Most of the shops around the square have changed in the past ten years, including the thatched greengrocer's shop to the left of the Butter Cross, now a cab company and insurance office.

Over a century after Padgate was created as a separate parish in 1838, there is still an air of open countryside in this Green Lane.

Howley is one of Warrington's oldest districts, with a simple Norman castle standing guard over the ancient ford at Latchford.

This view was taken from the first floor of the present Regatta Restaurant.

Wren's bridge, built by Robert Rumbold in 1709-12, has a balustraded parapet and heraldic beasts on display.

The 3rd Duke of Argyll decided to build a new castle: Roger Morrison was the architect and William Adam the clerk of works. The new site was 80 yards or so from the old castle.

In 1839 the estate was sold to developers, but it was 1911 before it became part of Birmingham.

Formby was once a fishing village, but the sea has receded at a number of places along the west coast (as at Southport), leaving the town two miles inland from Formby Point.

This later view of the pond is worth comparing to the earlier photograph of the same scene.

With a little imagination, it is almost possible to smell the uncovered weed drying in the sun, as a lonely figure tramps with bowed back along the lower part of the slipway towards the boat trolley,

In a picturesque setting of mature trees and a grassy churchyard, the building is in the main of the 14th century, apart from its two-bay 13th- century nave arcade.

It was once the largest producer of tin in Europe. After this industry declined it turned to cloth. In the nineteenth century, copper took over - the Great Consols copper mine is nearby.

Paddle steamers from Bristol anchored out in the bay bringing trippers to enjoy the breezy heights of Lynton and Countisbury.

To the left of the chapel is 'Glan Dyfi' house: formerly a school for young ladies and now known as Astral House, a branch of the RAF Association.

The top storey was a cistern, supplying water to the city, all of which was below it at this time.

Although isolated fragments of Stamford's 13th-century town walls can still be found around the town, often incorporated into later buildings, St Peter's Gate bastion or angle tower is the only recognisable

This tranquil scene was destroyed in August 1912 when six inches of rain fell in twenty-four hours. The massive force of the great flood swept away the lock gates and undermined the foundations.

Francis Tresham became one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, and approached his uncle Sir Thomas Tresham for financial help.

Fancy a thing like this at the bottom of the garden? Each of the thirty cars held thirty passengers, and the ride lasted for about fifteen minutes.

The Angel Hotel is a remarkable late 15th-century stone-built inn, rebuilt on the site of a Knights Templar hostel where King John had held court in 1213; in this building Richard III signed the Duke of

Branston, around its church, has delightful winding lanes; by the church stands Hainton House of 1765, a Georgian house of some dignity.