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They were, of course, designed to make life easier when using transport of the four-legged variety; although by the time this photograph was taken, the motor car was beginning to make its presence

The deep troughs around the summit are caused by slippage of the scarp face, caused by the undermining of the oolitic limestone structure by water pressure.

These three similar shots of St Michael's span half a century, but only in 1955 do we notice the restricted area of the burial ground around the church by the appearance of a substantial brick wall.

This view of the village on the hill from Hebden Road is dominated by the two big mills, the Ivy Bank Mills on the left and Bridgehouse Mill in the foreground.

Originally a part of the Cardigan Fields estate, Headingley was put on the market in 1888 and purchased by the Leeds cricket and football clubs in January 1889.

In May 1900, during the Boer War, Mafeking in South Africa was relieved after being defended by the future Boy Scout founder Robert Baden-Powell for 215 days.

Today sunny weather still brings people flocking to this area of the city by the riverside, although the people pictured here would probably be shocked to see the state of undress that is now considered

In this picturesque of a long-vanished world, chickens are foraging for food and children playing by the pond.

The 'new' University College building which opened in October 1909 was the fruition of ten years' concerted fundraising aided by the Corporation's gift of five acres of building land.

The original Book Of Remembrance containing the names of 35,000 fallen is now overshadowed by the death tolls of conflicts unimaginable to those at its original presentation.

The Church of the Holy Saviour was built between 1876 and 1880 with money raised by the Phipps family, who had been connected to the woollen industry since the 17th century.

By the church stands a statue of Robert Peel, notable because his waistcoat is buttoned the wrong way.

At the centre of the village is the ancient market cross and priory gatehouse, now owned by the National Trust.

Well before it became a favourite bathing and picnic spot, the Lune's beauties at Caton were extolled by the poets Wordsworth and Gray, and Turner came to paint the scene.

Thought to have been built as a garden summerhouse and now restored by the Landmark Trust, its plaster decoration depicts the Muses.

Bell, Old Church Street has survived for three hundred years; its bar is in the passageway.The Junction, High Street has one very big room, an island bar, and some fixtures and fittings supplied by the

The view shows a typical West Yorkshire industrial landscape of mills; these ones were originally powered by the fast-flowing streams of Colden Clough.

Now bypassed by the A616, Stocksbridge has been 'cleaned up'; it no longer has the constant pall of smoke hanging over it, as it did when this photograph was taken.

This well-ordered scene is typical of the high quality ambience of the suburb as a whole, and well anticipated by the Midland Bank with its impressive, yet restrained, neo-classical frontage, exactly as

In the foreground is the then newly-laid-out area replacing the Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, now all paved and occupied by the water fountain of 1839 relocated from Bath Street.

To his right is the Free Church, built in 1863 by the owner of a nearby flour mill.

The ornate clock tower and gateway were added in 1874 to designs by the famous pier designer Eugenius Birch. Both the entrance and the tower were demolished in 1928.

The spire of St Mary's church soars above the town, and to the right is the boundary wall of Petworth Park, the great mansion built by the Duke of Somerset towards the end of the 17th century.

Such prosperity did not last, and Colyford had declined by the 18th century. It remains a village of beautiful cottages on the high road between Exeter and Dorchester.