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By the end of the 18th century, the Severn north of Bewdley was becoming increasingly difficult to keep open for navigation, and groups of men had to be employed to bow-haul craft between Bewdley and Coalbrookdale

This is limestone country: the soft rock, assisted by the streams, forms magical shapes and contours as the water tumbles down.

This pastoral scene posed by the photographer is charming; it shows the steep village street leading to the cottages grouped around the stocks, church and inn.

The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.

In 1950 it was divided into flats, but later, having fallen into a state of dereliction, it was converted into a hotel by the current owner's family.

From 1931 until 1960 this site had been occupied by the Tudor Cinema, an extraordinary building with a tall timber-framed wing and a weird circular stone stair turret on its frontage.

The Civic Centre in Connah's Quay, one of several buildings laid out as a formal civic area, was began in 1960, with the stone being laid by the steel magnate John F Summers; the Summers

The houses are now surrounded by the new Croesonnen Park estate, which was begun in 1965. In 1955 the land to the left of the road was part of Chandler's market garden.

Amid displaced stairs and other paraphernalia, Samuel Govier (1855-1934) shoes a horse at the forge in Broad Street, where in 1895 he had been immortalised by the American artist James

After his death it was taken over by the Holiday Fellowship.

Browne's Hospital is one of the most important medieval almshouses in England, dating from 1475 when it was founded by the wool merchant William Browne.

Blackburn had had three local newspapers by the time the Reading Room opened.

This Victorian gem, the circular fountain with tiers over which water cascaded and surmounted by a cherub, was rivalled by the bandstand's elegant, slender pillars in delicate wrought ironwork.

Down by the river bank, the paviours follow the line of the medieval wharf. Behind the moat are the medieval outer defences, the inner one overlooking the outer - the battlements are 19th-century.

Now demolished, its site is occupied by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission headquarters of 1974. Stanley Spencer, from nearby Cookham, studied art at the Technical Institute.

The village's name means 'a settlement by the River Cocker'. The village has rows of sandstone cottages and a number of farms. It was self-sufficient in the 19th century.

On the edge of the village stands the black and white half-timbered Rufford Old Hall, owned now by the National Trust, but seat of the Hesketh family for about 600 years.

Albert Park was given to the town in 1868 by the famous ironmaster Henry Bolckow, who spent some £30,000 in purchasing the land and preparing it.

Erection of the masts commenced in 1924 on a site chosen by the Air Ministry and the War Office.

The Grand Pier Pavilion was opened by the Lord Mayor of London in 1910, but was gutted by fire in 1970.

Now owned by the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor is a massive French chateau deposited on a windswept hilltop for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, famed for its superb porcelain collection, fittings

Villager Mrs May Worley Morton recalled that in her childhood she had her first portrait painted beside Watery Lane by the Scottish artist Edwin Alexander.

This was closed as a livestock market in the early 1960s and has been replaced by the new Saint Martin's Walk with shops.

This is a five-storey L-plan tower-house built by the Earl of Mar in 1628. It was here in August 1714 that a so-called hunt was assembled by John Erskine, sixth Earl of Mar.