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Beyond the nave and the crossing is the medieval choir and sanctuary, the oldest part of the church, dating from the 12th to the 14th century. It is crowned by an 18th-century vaulted ceiling.

This quaint old house sits on a corner in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

On 15 August 1819, Henry Hunt, a leading advocate for Parliamentary reform, stopped here on his way to address a meeting in Manchester.

Downstream, past Weybridge, the Desborough Cut of 1935 by-passes a winding loop, to reach Walton-on-Thames.

The refined and somewhat austere rusticated three-arch bridge of 1829-32 by John Rennie, the architect of old Waterloo Bridge, has been marred by a widening in 1958 in which footways were cantilevered

This was just one lock in the long climb from the west edge of London up the Chilterns: 25 miles and 42 locks on the Grand Junction Canal (later to become part of the Grand Union), the original main transport

Here we have a second view of the loaded boats we saw in photograph L122053. Now, the name of the butty can be distinguished: 'Marjorie'.

This shows the fine Palladian Guildhall of 1825 with its Regency cupola and clock. The cupola was removed in 1904 as the roof was sagging.

The overhanging lucam was used to hoist sacks of grain from a cart directly up into the bin floor. A brick arch to the right of the picture carries the London to Brighton main line railway.

The Church of All Saints was built in 1843. In our photograph, the village stores and post office were sheltered from the roadway behind trimmed hedges.

It is unfortunate that today four of the seven upper-storey bay windows have now been replaced - without their bays - and some of the properties are boarded up.

By 1941 planning was well under way to rebuild the shattered heart of Coventry.

The Benedictine Priory, founded in 1043, grew to become one of the wealthiest in the midlands, and the sheer bulk of its buildings must have made an imposing sight on the Coventry skyline.The complex

Knowle, one mile south-east of Solihull, contains several interesting old buildings, including the medieval Chester House, and the heavily restored 17th-century Red Lion.

‘The newest fashion newspaper and the oldest-style tavern still jostle each other now as they did a century or more ago.’This bustling street was once the home of the British press.The working day

This latest set of modifications included the installation of the seven-bay arcade between nave and aisle pictured here, a new stained glass window above the altar and new floor tiles.

A magnificent photograph of a trading wherry, with its square black sail and tall mast, on the Bure near Stokesby.

The street here is dominated on the south side by the slender spire of St Nicholas's church, unfortunately demolished in 1955.

On the right are Mabel Kemp's cycle shop and Isaac Minn's, a saddler's.

The River Weaver creates a link with the Trent & Mersey Canal by way of Northwich's mighty Anderton Boat Lift, where a pair of narrow boats could be lifted 50 feet in two caissons.

This fine public park in the heart of Neath was opened in 1897.

Boats can be hired or moored here, and the building has been restored and is now a house.

Demolished in 1939, this house is thought to be the third dwelling on the site – the first was possibly a Norman tower.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.