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Since this photograph was taken, the street has become much busier with traffic; these days it would be difficult to stroll about without fear of being knocked down.

St Michael's at Wilsford has herringbone flintwork and a large unbuttressed Norman tower on the west end.

Fleur-de-Lys, the timber-framed building, is one of Hailsham's most interesting and oldest buildings.

West Byfleet is more stylish with its architecturally-considered parade of shops and flats: this is quite a successful composition, with occasional timber-framed accents.

On the left, the second house with the lower roof has been demolished.

The Avebury Stone Circle in Wiltshire is unique: modern village life and ancient stones live side by side in a common and mutual existence where the past is indelibly a living part of the present.

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost-story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

All the houses on the left went to make way for the inner ring road and its roundabout; the gable on the far right belongs to The Armoury pub, which does survive.

This village is virtually the creation of its 19th-century rector, Joseph Relph, who built large numbers of houses to double its size, including Tarrs Inn, which we can see in this view, with

Here, at the junction of St Mary Street and Castle Street on the right, which leads to the Norman castle ruins, is the Clock Tower of 1897 topped by its timber belfry and weathervane.

Built in the late 14th century for the Carthusian monks of Hinton Priory, the George Inn catered for the wool merchants who came to the town's two annual fairs: it performed a useful service and was

LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.

The popular seafront of North Berwick.

This is looking northwards up South Street, to Stag House at the top end of West Street and the Town Hall (centre).

This is another view of Lower Eype from further to the south-west, closer to the cliff above Lyme Bay, looking inland to Mount Lane and St Peter's Church (centre).

This peaceful village to the south of Marlborough is one long street retaining many old cottages.

By 1796 the Grand Junction Canal passed through Rickmansworth on its way from Brentford on the Thames to Braunston.

An attractive corner of medieval Sithestan (1254). The house which forms the angle with Chapel Street on the left is pre-17th-century, lately repainted and rethatched.

The hotel's old name was the Dumpling Inn because of the annual custom of eating dumplings in broth.

This post office was built in 1900 on land belonging to the Betchworth Park Estate, and was designed to deal with the business of three villages, Betchworth, Brockham and Buckland, including sorting and

Welshpool has had an anxious history, situated on the border with England, and has been destroyed on several occasions.

The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

On the left we can see a line of old-fashioned telegraph poles. Not all post offices in the Fylde had a telegraph office early in the 20th century, nor could they deal with postal orders.

The only original components left of this ancient barn are its oak cruck supports.