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Twickenham Museum Efforts to establish a museum for Twickenham stemmed from the creation of the Museum of Richmond.

Prestbury was the mother church of Macclesfield.

This photograph shows the magnificent hammer-beam roof of c1445, the Star of David St Edmund window of 1844 copied from the Abbey Gate, and the rood screen, which was erected as a Boer War Memorial in

The River Ribble in summer is the most pleasant of rivers, and to picnic and paddle by its banks has been a delight for many centuries.

This building is the last remnant of the Tannery, and still stands east of the bridge opposite Greenaway's car park.

This tranquil scene shows a rowing boat moored on the northern shore of Wastwater.

The Hall was rapidly enriched with gifts; the Lord Mayor's parlour has many treasured possessions, including a priceless mosaic picture comprising 86,000 pieces of Italian marble.

The arrival of motor traffic in Cheltenham meant that road layouts had to be redesigned to facilitate the safe movement of cars and lorries.

Shaldon remains an unspoiled regency fishing village on the Torquay side of the Teign estuary. A long bridge and foot-ferry lead across to neighbouring Teignmouth.

All Saints' Church contains a memorial to the Reverend Lyte, author of 'Abide With Me' and 'Praise My Soul, the King of Heaven'.

The newly-opened Grammar School at the end of Windmill Avenue. A ceramic mural on the front by William Mitchell demonstrated the progressiveness of the architects.

This delightful study of a cockle woman on the sands of the Exe estuary shows the importance of the shellfish industry to the area.

On the left of this view is Trinity College, which dates from 1759 and is 300 ft in length.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Moffat attracted tourists wishing to sample the delights of the nearby sulphureous-saline wells.

A few yards from the site of photograph L122026, a pair of loaded boats head south towards the Trent & Mersey Canal. They were owned by Horsefield Ltd.

The elegant suspension bridge, built over the Menai Strait by Thomas Telford as part of his Holyhead Road, gave its name to the little town on the northern side of the narrow strait, between the island

Guiding a punt - and its 'fair inhabitants' - towards the graceful arches of Staines Bridge.

A haunting and unusual picture of a marching band at Frensham during the First World War. How many of these men came back by the end of the following year?

The growing Victorian population of East- the-Water's first place of worship was a prefabricated 'iron church' built in 1881.

In 1828 the Earl of Derby presented the city with Stanley Palace.

Miller Bridge, once known as Mill Bridge because it linked the mills on the east of the river with the town, is one of the chief bridges across the River Kent.

There is a strong sense of the unnatural in this picture.

The 15th-century tower of St Mary's church overlooks the Market Place. The roof is decorated with angels bearing the marks of shots supposedly fired at them by Puritan soldiers.

Edward Gibbon, the historian of the Roman Empire, was once its Member of Parliament.