Caption For Windermere, 1886
The wooden gates and fences in the photograph are typical of this southern, less-mountainous part of the Lake District, and the slightly-blurred leaves of the silver birch trees are caused by wind movement
Caption For Thrapston, De Vere Road C1955
Pairs of 1930s semis seem to march down the hill, the view made more bleak by the brutal municipal pruning of the silver birch trees - they are now no more substantial than the street lamp or the telephone
Caption For Lamorna, 1927
One of Lamorna's most famous residents was the painter Samuel John Birch, who moved there in 1892 and stayed for the rest of his life.
Caption For Eastbourne, The Pier 1901
In the early 1860s the Pier Company was formed, but
infighting slowed the work; Eugenius Birch's pier,
started in 1866 and part-opened in 1870 by Lord Edward
Cavendish, was not completed until 1872