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This well, with its thirteen water jets, is a reconstruction of an earlier one destroyed by Oliver Cromwell's troops. On 23 January 1570, Regent Moray was shot as he rode through Linlithgow.

On the right is the United Free Methodist Church, which opened in 1869, and facing it on the left is Burnley Town Hall.

The area from the Duke of Wellington statue to Market Street was once a large ornamental pond complete with fountains, which had delighted Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on their visit in 1840.

At the turn of the century Wetherby was described in some tourist guides as 'a town of no interest'.

Famous as the birthplace of John Macadam in 1756 and of Robert Burns in 1759, Ayr was founded under a charter granted by William the Lion. This view looks towards the New Brig and Main Street.

It is difficult to tell what these traders are selling, but it is probably wet fish. It looks as if they have almost cleared their tray. A young boy pauses on his way to buy a jug of beer.

This dignified four-storey stucco terrace of about 1870, with its continuous first-floor balcony, was at the south-east corner of The Steyne.

Founded by Nathanial Woodard, then curate at nearby New Shoreham, Lancing was one of fifteen schools he established, including Ardingly and Hurstpierpoint in Sussex.

The remains of Ratae Coritanorum, the origins of the city and a regional capital, lie adjacent to the superb Saxon church of St Nicholas, seen here in the centre of the photograph.

One of the interesting things when looking at some of these photographs is the number of shops that even the smallest of villages seemed to have.

This view shows some of the well-laid-out flower-beds that Bridlington had a reputation for producing.

Selby still sees small ships loading and unloading at the modest wharf. Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

The 12th-century tower and spire of St Mary's Church viewed from the Market Place, a symbol of the mediaeval prosperity brought to this little town from wool-trading.

Founded in 1798, with the aim of providing an education to the children of members of the Masonic Order, the school moved to its new buildings at Bushey in 1902.

On the right is the Gaumont, a classic example of the super cinema of the 1930s. In those days many people went to the cinema at least once a week.

The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port.

The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley. It is almost divided into twin lakes by a central delta.

This column was built by public subscription in 1817 to honour a local landowner, Henry William Paget of Plas Newydd.

At the eastern edge, Overstone Manor, an elegant classical style 1930s building, is now a pub, restaurant and hotel.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

The Lockwood Beck Reservoir is situated at the junction of the A171 Guisborough-to-Whitby moor road with the road to Castleton.

In 1042 Edward the Confessor granted the manor of Littleham to his thane Ordgar.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.