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Hoardings advertise summer seasons by the Brothers Howard and Miss Ruth Vincent. Visitors could also attend a fashionable fancy dress ball.

It became a nature reserve in 1899, the first one to be set up by the National Trust. The thatched roofs are of reed harvested from Wicken Fen in the winter months.

The pattern created by the extending balance beams has been compared to the backbone of a huge reptile. This lock is on the edge of town, close to the old prison.

Note the three children by the tree on the right.

This nostalgic and peaceful late-summer view shows corn stooks above the little town by the lake whose Welsh name, Llyn Tegid, means 'beautiful lake'.

Here we see the castle after its restoration by the Marquis of Bute. The main residential block, including the great hall, was sited along the south side of the inner curtain wall.

The magnificent topiary gardens of Levens Hall, near Kendal, were laid out by the King's gardener Beaumont, who trained at Versailles, in 1692.

Begun during the reign of King John and finally completed in 1472, York Minster stands on a site previously occupied by the Roman praetorium and by Saxon churches; the earliest of these was a small wattle

This view is one not normally seen by the public, for it was taken in the Prebendal School grounds.

Struck by lightning in 1672, it was restored in 1862 by the architect David Brandon.

Much of the woollen industry, by which Cirencester prospered, was organised by the monks of the great abbey which was completed during the reign of Henry II.

This handsome crescent dates back to 1826 and was originally intended to be part of a seaside resort known as Anglesey, developed by the Marquis of Anglesey.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

Dating mainly from the 13th and 14th centuries, and with a lofty spire dating from the time of Agincourt, the church of All Saints was extensively restored in 1862 by the Reverend W H Lowder, who had

Designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, who died before it was completed, the memorial cost just over £2,000 and was unveiled by the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Rt Hon Sir Bouverie Brand, MP.

To the right, a small vessel festooned with flags is left scuppered by the retreat of the waves.

By the 1870s, Robert Forrest knew that he could not stop the 'rabble' and their use of the beach, which he deemed 'not legitimate'.

Occupied by the Rous and later Brain families, much of what we view here beyond the artificial lakes is the architectural additions of c1850-60.

The facade is so hemmed in by the street and the buildings opposite that it could never achieve the visual impact its architects would have wished for.

Unfortunately, in 1936 it was demolished, to be replaced by the present elegant concrete bridge completed in 1942.

The top hats sported by the boys can still be seen, even if they are no longer generally worn for the rest of the year.

Mining profits attracted shops and service industries, all eager to cash in on the 40,000-odd tons of copper ore that the mine was producing annually by the early 1860s; by this time, the population had

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.