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At this point the main Leominster to Hereford road starts to climb the steep hill.

Camberley grew up at the gates of the Military Staff College which opened in 1862.

Here we see workers leaving the Great Western Railway yard, which, at one time, employed 12,000 people.

Taken from the site of the old Hoe Police Station and lock-up before the pier was built, this view shows a largely undeveloped West Hoe (the grassy area at centre).

Cadnam, or Cadenham, stands at an important road junction at the north-western corner of the New Forest; sooner or later every traveller in the locality is bound to pass through the village.

At the far left, the single-storey building is the old lifeboat station of 1898, which in 1937 became the world's first lifeboat museum.

As this village is at the far north of the Rhondda it is not too far from the Brecon National Park, famous for its rivers and waterfalls, carving out the limestone country.

In the distance is the church of St Mary Major with its massive 13th-century tower, square at the base and octagonal at the top.

This village lies at the confluence of the River Anton and the Pillhill brook.

The lack of people on this quiet beach at Elmer, near Bognor Regis, does not appear to distract from the enjoyment of these two young children.

At the bottom of Sackville Street is the O'Connell Monument.

In the distance is St George's church, another Victorian creation.

In 1815, a club was founded in London at the Thatched House Tavern by 42 gentlemen engaged in salt-water yachting.

Kelly's Directory for 1906 lists a South Downs Cottage, which at the time was the residence of a Mr Frederick Bernard Yahr.

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

Though Dr Boddington was most famous for his work with TB patients, he also cared for mentally ill patients at Driffold House Asylum at the corner of Wyndley Lane and The Driffold.

The Norman keep with its four corner turrets, similar to that at Rochester, was built between 1164 and 1170.

At the other end of the Market Square is the bronze statue of James Boswell, drinking companion and biographer of Samuel Johnson.

In an area that once relied on agriculture and fishing, thatched cottages were once a common sight.

St Peters was designed by architect George Richardson in 1789 (for Robert Sherrard, 4th Earl of Harborough) in the Classical manner that Pevsner describes as 'an attempt at combining the tradition of

At this time, a room at the Prospect cost from 4s 6d per day; dinner cost 6s.

In this charming photograph, a collie sheepdog marshals a flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep past the village green at Buckden, which stands alongside the River Wharfe.

At this tiny port, a few miles from Camborne, copper ore was shipped for smelting at Swansea.

This solid structure, with its massive piles and defences, hints at the treacherous seas seafarers confronted off the Norfolk coast.