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The castle underwent large-scale remodelling and extension over a fifty-year period during the 13th century, much of the work being commissioned by John de Barri.

On market day the whole square was full of activity and people came into Nottingham from all the surrounding villages.

The building on the right at the bottom of Pelham Street was soon to be demolished and replaced by Boots the Chemists.

The pavement on the right was the pitch for women flower-sellers on Wednesdays and Saturdays, creating a splash of colour.

A busy and sunny square with vehicles parked on the road in front of the Council House, although the forecourt was for official cars only.

The building in the trees to the right of the picture is Dinham Hall. It was used in the early 1800s to imprison Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother.

The market hall was built in 1888 at a cost of £6,000; it lasted less than 100 years, being demolished in 1986.

The photograph shows a view of Egham High Street, looking east. The King's Head Hotel, seen on the right in the photograph, dates back to the early 17th century.

Built in the 18th century, Tapton House is where railway engineer and businessman George Stephenson spent the last years of his life.

This is the more subdued face of the Heath the shot is not packed with action. The ponds have for many years been used for swimming, fishing and sailing model craft.

Mary Ann is better known to us as the writer George Eliot; in many of her books she wrote about the rural and industrialised Midlands.

The cottages are typical fishermen's homes of the time; the stairs led to living quarters, while the ground floors were the fish cellars and boat stores.

The arrival of the railway in 1877 put Mablethorpe on the seaside holiday map, and the town is mainly Victorian or later.

About two miles west of Hailsham is Upper Dicker, which has a Gothic-style church. Standing on a hill at a crossroads is the unusual house named The Dicker, built in 1908 for Horatio Bottomley MP.

From about 1600 Broadway was a thriving staging post, and horse-drawn carriages by the dozen stopped here to feed and water en route from London to Worcester - a journey of more than 17 hours.

This fine gabled building with huge chimneys is situated on the edge of the town, set in typical English parkland with lakes and rare trees.

The Queen's Head Hotel, now shops, used to stand just across Matlock Bridge (from where this photograph was taken) on the way south towards Derby.

It incorporates part of the 15th-century Prior Overton's Tower. Note the ornate, ball-topped entrance gate columns, and the earlier priory remains incorporated into the garden walls.

Behind the signpost directing travellers to Dorking and Guildford is the lych gate leading to the churchyard of the small Norman church with its shingled spire.

On the left, outside the post office, two postmen are among the group eyeing the camera.

The famous evangelist the Rev C H Spurgeon, who visited Mullion in 1872, was obviously impressed by the locals: 'If I were asked to select the Cornish parish which contains the greatest number of intelligent

The people to the right are enjoying a walk along the miner's route of the Stepaside line, which transported anthracite from the Stepaside area via Wiseman's Bridge, first by horse-drawn

Pandering to the needs of motorists, the first Railway Inn was pulled down in the 1930s to make way for a larger establishment.

The narrow and winding Main Street seen here is typical of most White Peak villages, and is definitely not built for modern traffic.