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Maynscroft restaurant and café and the adjoining William's cycle shop (right) closed shortly after 1955 and became dwellings. The Queen's Head closed in c1990 and is now a restaurant.

This was demolished to widen the road shortly after the photo was taken.

The church of St James, with its broach spire and Anglo-Saxon long and short stone work in the nave, was newly seated and restored in 1854-55.

This traffic reached such levels that it could not cope, and a new one was built a short distance downstream. This leaves the old one still in use, but not congested with lorries.

In a few short years four large homes for sufferers from tuberculosis were established in the resort. Here, children play with their toy yachts in the dedicated Children's Corner at Ventnor.

Beccles would still have been doing important business as a port when this photograph was taken. The main claim to fame of the church in the background is that Nelson's parents were married there.

Portreath was once a thriving little mining port at the terminus of Cornwall's first (horse-drawn) railway.

After the dissolution came a short period of disuse before Sir Walter Mildmay restored parts of the friary for use as a college.

Lead mining brought much short-lived prosperity to this part of Swaledale, but the village quickly returned to its rural existence.

As an important naval port, Plymouth has always had a large contingent of military personnel stationed around its various districts.

The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling

A short distance away behind the church, to the right, we can see the ornate window and gable end of the Methodist church (now the village hall).

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn. Built in the early to mid 20th century, it remains largely unchanged today.

Its column was cast at Stourbridge Ironworks (just a short walk away, by the canal) in 1857.

For a short time in the middle of the 19th century, copper was mined in Dry Cove above Tilberthwaite.

Village lanes and woodlands can be discovered and explored within a short distance from many moorings on the river Waveney, which separates Norfolk from Suffolk.

The main canal ran from Whitby, now Ellesmere Port on the Mersey, to Autherley near Wolverhampton, through 46 sets of locks.

With numbers of worshippers falling dramatically, and the prospect of the inner relief road being built, it was knocked down in 1980: a sadly short life for such a wonderful building, as this interior

Bishops Walk, the quiet riverside path, was shortly to be replaced by the main road to be known as Lambeth Palace Road and the Albert Embankment.

Often referred to affectionately as 'Cleveland's Matterhorn', the distinctive profile of Roseberry Topping lies a short distance to the west of Guisborough, between Pinchinthorpe and Great

The bridge was built in 1826 by Thomas Penson, who also built Llanidloes' Short Bridge in 1850.

As well as general cargo shipped through the port, the amount of fish landed at St Andrew's Dock during this year, amounted to 1,580,959 cwts.

The four-centred arches cover a short chancel. The stained glass in the east window is by Wailes, 1849. The north aisle's north-east window is by Kempe, 1900.