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To the right of the view, the tall building, built in 1884, was Walker's Repository for Horses; later, the building was shortened to about half its height.

Church Street and the roads off to the left are part of a grid of Victorian brick, terraced, straight streets.

Looking at this view of the river one can see the deterioration of the banks and navigation channel, which arose through neglect and lack of funds.

Here we see the statue of Sir James Ramsden, the first mayor of Barrow-in-Furness. It was erected in 1872, the year of his knighthood.

The village is tucked away in the Vale of Mawgan, five miles north-east of Newquay. The Falcon Inn stands at the bottom of the lane.

This Frith scene from 1950 contrasts with Francis Frith's photographs of Margate Sands in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Some time during the second half of the 19th century, Bracknell became a town, helped by the coming of the railway in 1856 and the development of market gardening and brick-making.

This view of Northbrook Street shows the facade of Newbury's famous department store, Camp Hopson, established in 1921.

This small stone circle has only eight stones; it is distinguished because of the size of the stones – one is nine feet high - the fact that they are made of white quartz.

The Somerset chapel on the left is the last resting place of several of the Earls of Worcester, masters of Raglan Castle.

The most striking building amid the shops is the rough-hewn late Anglo-Saxon tower of St Michael's Church, with its two tiers of paired belfry windows.

This open-topped car laden with tourists has just crawled up the narrow, zig-zag road to the top of the pass.

Addlestone grew up in the mid 19th century with the arrival of the railway, when a few villas and many more terraces and pairs of artisan houses were built.

On 26 June 1685 the village was the scene of a skirmish between 350 royalist troops and rebel forces of the Duke of Monmouth. Monmouth lost his nerve and turned away from Bristol.

Beauchief is four miles south of Sheffield, but all that remains of the Premonstratensian Abbey founded by Robert Fitz Ranulf around 1183 is the west tower.

This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

In 1209, the rebuilding of Eccleshall Castle was begun by Walter Langton, Bishop of Lichfield and Lord High Treasurer of England.

This imposing building of 1878 replaced an earlier market.

The new mills, ten of which were established as early as 1758, used water power from the fast running River Ryburn.

St Michael's church, called 'proud and prosperous' by Pevsner, is by J L Pearson, the architect of Truro Cathedral, and was built in 1885.

Lincoln College 1906 The college was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln.

There are now fewer trees, and several of the houses are offices or hotels. At the left is the rock-faced stone St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church of 1869.

The parish church lies east of the Almshouses, which can be seen beyond the chancel.

Maltravers Street is one of Arundel's three main streets. Its ancient name was Chepynge Street.