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The chamber of the House of Lords is prepared for Edward VII's first state opening of Parliament. The throne on the right is for Queen Alexandra.

Note the traditional checkerboard brickwork on the cottages to the right, which also appear to have been the subject of some infill building since the 18th century.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

This is the interior of the 1881 addition to St Charles Borromeo church; the pictures on the walls show the stations of the cross.

Bolckow Road was the busy commercial centre of the Grangetown community, as we can see here from the wide selection of local shops and the parish church of St Matthew in the centre.

Councillor Frederick Monks of the Monks Hall Iron Foundry presented the Town Hall Gates to Warrington on Walking Day, 28 June 1895.

Warston Pictures proudly presents 'My Six Convicts' at its Cameo Cinema on the corner of Springfield Street, opposite Bank House (right.)

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with

Continue east along London Road to Beaufort Buildings West and East, long gently curving terraces of 1791 to 1815.

Further downhill, at Fiveways, the road on the right is Fosse Lane. Here the Roman Fosse Way climbs out of the Avon valley to cross Banner Down on its way to Cirencester, the Roman town of Corinium.

Ramsey attained early importance with the foundation of its abbey in 969. It survived for around five hundred years until Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century.

The name of this small settlement on the slopes of Wansfell Pike between Windermere and the Kirkstone Pass means exactly what it says - 'the trout stream' - and it stands above a stream with the same name

The Troutbeck valley is one of the quietest in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district can

The last of the Champneys family, Sir Thomas Mostyn, made many alterations to the park including the creation of the lake and a moat around the church.

A view of one of the beaches which look out over Galway Bay to County Clare and the limestone landscape of the Burren.

The industrial and commercial parts of the town co-existed in a very confined space. The mill chimneys were an ever-present reminder of the source of the family's wagepacket.

The death of Henry I in 1135 saw England torn apart by civil war.

Here we have a splendidly detailed view of Godalming's High Street towards the end of the Victorian era.

Punting on the river in pre-war days. Near here is Conyngham Hall, now a conference centre, but once the home of the toffee maker from Halifax, Lord Macintosh.

With blissful symmetry the horizon here is occupied by Cardiff Castle - the iconic home of the Bute family, facilitators of the modern city and much of its wealth.

The Devil’s Arrows is nowadays composed of three stones. They stand in North Yorkshire, close to the A1: it is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the county.

Angell Town was an estate of 1850s Italianate villas, mostly semi-detached, built on curving roads centred on St John's church, whose 1853 tower is crowned by four pinnacles.

The village of Cranley originally took its name from the craneries at Baynards and Vachery to the south, but it was renamed Cranleigh in 1867 at the instigation of the Post Office because of confusion

Part of the Warter Priory Estate, these cottages were extended upwards and thatched in the 1930s.