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Sheffield's lowly position in the league table of provincial shopping centres, 18th in the most recent study (December 2003) and far behind regional rivals Manchester (third), Nottingham (fifth) and Leeds

In 1700 the Duke of Leeds held the manorial rights, and these passed to Mr Lane Fox on his marriage to the Duke's daughter.

It was the arrival of the Leeds/Liverpool canal in 1810 that turned a hand-loom cottage industry into the giant of the Industrial Revolution.

Today, Kippax tends to be a commuter town to Leeds, but three centuries ago it was home to the beautiful Kippax Hall and Park.

As with so many other towns in the area, it was the Leeds and Liverpool canal which brought about the growth of Burnley, and there is a large piece of that canal history alive and well at the

Read Holliday's grandson, Lionel Brook Holliday, who had served on the Western Front as a major, started his own company further along Leeds Road.

Up to the 15th century, Otley was of more importance than either Leeds or Bradford. England's oldest agricultural show began here in 1799. The market town is bisected by the 75-mile River Wharfe.

On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society. Every customer had a membership number against which all transactions were logged.

On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society. Every customer had a membership number against which all transactions were logged.

On the left in this picture is the branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society. Every customer had a membership number against which all transactions were logged.

By this time, the southern section of the canal had been sold to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company and the northern section to the London and North Western Railway Company.

The New M1 Comes into service 2 november 1959 Parliament first debated the 187-mile London to Leeds link in 1906.

The village of Upper Beeding nestles against the hills. Confusingly, Upper Beeding is lower than its namesake Lower Beeding, which lies about 15 miles away near Horsham.

Today the River Adur's main channel passes under Beeding Bridge, from which this photograph was taken.

In the Middle Ages, the parish of Beeding also included a large detached portion in the Weald near Horsham, which was separated and named Lower Beeding by 1838.

The Bridge Inn and adjoining Beeding Bridge are well-known local landmarks. The bridge is mentioned in documents dating back to the reign of Henry III, and probably replaces the old Roman ford.

The High Street was named in the 13th century, when buildings were recorded east of Beeding Bridge.

Part of Beeding's Bridge is just visible on the small rise at the far western end of the High Street, next to the Bridge Inn on the left.

Who knows - perhaps our photographer treated him to a swift pint in the Old Bleeding Wolf.

Upper Beeding is in effect a suburb of Bramber. It is mostly nondescript, apart from its parish church at the north end, overlooking the river.

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction