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The wooded valley of Crimdon Dene is an unspoilt area close to Blackhall, where the beach is not polluted with coal spoil.

This is Bishop Cosin's impressive Black Staircase; it stands in the angled tower between the Great Hall and the 12th- century building of Bishop Pudsey.

It received its Charter of Incorporation in 1891, and then, of course, needed its own Town Hall.

The 18th-century coaching inn, the Black Boys, with its Dutch gable, is in the centre of the picture.

Half a mile away stands the Hall - a neo-Jacobean brick mansion, built in 1871 on the site of an earlier structure.

The Town Hall did not need or get a clock, because the Market Hall had the town's clock on a free-standing tower in front of it.

Here we see the western end of the lord's hall following its restoration.

The three-storey black and white building on the left of the picture is The Wilbraham Arms, named for an important local family who lived in nearby Dorfold Hall; the Wilbrahams were

The horse-drawn trams are but a memory, and Isaac Black's famous clothing hall has replaced Greaves & Co, though Liptons and Crofts would be around for some years to come.

Black slaves were brought here from Liverpool before being transported onwards - Storrs Hall on Lake Windermere was one alleged destination.

Formerly home to a branch of the Legh family, Swineyard Hall was sold off by Lt Colonel Cornwall Legh in 1919.

Black's Canal was at the western extreme of the Gidea Hall Estate.

The estate surrounding the old Kippax Hall contained many unusual black deer.

During the Second World War, there was an encampment of the Black Watch Regiment here: they kept their armoured vehicles on the green, and had their canteen in the village hall.

The church is surrounded by the parkland of Woolverstone Hall.

It looks for all the world as if someone has chopped the spire off a church and deposited it in the middle of the village.

To the left is the entrance to the 100 ft long Great Hall built during the reign of Bishop Bek.

The black and white building at the dar side of the street is the Victoria Jubilee Hall, erected in 1887; today it also has a clock to celebrate another jubilee, that of Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.

Writing in the 17th century, Dr Witte claimed that Scarborough water was a cure for apoplexy, epilepsy, catalepsy and vertigo, and that it cleansed the stomach, opened the lungs, and cured asthma, black

On the edge of the village stands the black and white half-timbered Rufford Old Hall, owned now by the National Trust, but seat of the Hesketh family for about 600 years.

The Town Hall was built on the site of the old chapel-of-ease.

In the distance, on the left of the picture, can just be seen Greta Hall, former home of the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey.

We are looking from the Town Hall down the grand vista of the largely 18th-century Market Place; it was known as the Shambles in the previous century, and designated for the sale of fresh meat

The Black Bull dates from the early 18th century; it was a pub until 1924, and is now a house.