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This attractive view taken during one summer around 1960 shows that many of the shops followed the fashion of the day in using sun blinds over their shop fronts.

Originally built in 1924 as a three-bedroomed house, the building was added to over the following six years to become a hotel. The pavilion to the right is a café that was operated from the garden.

Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch.

Following a bequest by a local surgeon in 1828, the Infirmary was built in Tudor-Gothic style on the historic Greyfriars site.

Note how the road and the river are sandwiched into the narrow gorge cut by the River Derwent following the Ice Age.

The nearby medieval vicarage has a priest hole, often used during the Catholic persecution that followed the Reformation, as this, like many other villages in Lancashire doggedly clung onto the Old Faith

Market Street c1955 Originally a village, Eastleigh expanded rapidly around Bishopstoke Junction after the London and South Western Railway Company's carriage works moved here in 1889-90, followed

The Library was opened in May 1936, following the purchase of the land from the Southern Railway.

The three-storied and broad-fronted architecture in this section of the village indicates a predominance of wealth and large families among the original owners, following the rebuilding after the fire

Clarkes printing works survived, as the following view shows. On the left, the tall chimney was attached to the Albert Hall - now The Queens Theatre.

Neglected throughout the Great War, it was declared unsafe in 1918, and was demolished the following year.

Turning left out of Castle Hill, Bailgate follows the course of the Roman Ermine Street towards the old Roman north gate from the city, the Newport Arch.

Later in the year the boats pursued herring, followed by mackerel in the spring.

The Grange Hotel was built following the coming of the railway.

Following its closure in 1982 the school stood empty for five years apart from occupation by some squatters. The site was redeveloped and Redvers Court was completed in May 1989.

One of Scotland's greatest royal fortresses, Stirling Castle was taken by William Wallace in 1297 but was surrendered to Edward I in August 1305 following a siege.

The cottages are outside the line of the old walls, and may not have been subjected to the ban on thatch which followed the fires of the 17th century.

The Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.

How many of these men came back by the end of the following year? Frensham is known for its ponds and its common - now Frensham Country Park.

Following the end of the Second World War, a large number of returning servicemen and women opted for a university education, and by 1947 Sheffield university's student population had more than doubled

In 1549, John Kett led his rebel peasant army from its camp on Mousehold Heath over this fine 14th-century bridge, only for his followers to be cut to pieces in the city.

The mill was rebuilt following a fire in 1872.

Many of these lanes are very ancient, lying on routes followed by packhorse trains and travellers over many hundreds of years, and now enjoyed by ramblers.

Every year on the Saturday nearest Johnson's birthday, there is an official gathering around his statue, followed by a supper in the Guildhall.