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Another important source of income for the locals was smuggling.

Kendal has always been an important service centre for the southern Lake District, and today is the headquarters of both the South Lakeland District Council and the Lake District National Park Authority

A steamer rides at anchor awaiting a tug to take her into Hull, while another is just about to enter the port complex. The paddler on the right is the ferry 'Atalanta'.

Collins had another shop in Pier Gap.

Long the centre of the town's social and political life, the Market Square contained many inns, including the George and Dragon, the Woodman, the Red Lion (on the right), and the Brown Cow.

This was probably a Monday, as the washing is laid to dry on the sands.

There is another High Park Farm too, just across the Staffordshire border.

from the mid 12th century and built in the Romanesque style, is decorated with thirty-eight fine sculptures depicting detailed and elaborate images, some of which are based on Biblical scenes from both

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.This must have been

Unlike Bradford, Bristol was not about to embark on running a railway: they simply wanted the trackbed for a new road to Avonmouth, for the Gorge was not wide enough for both.

Today, the built-up promenade extends westwards past the houses, but both they and their gardens survive.

Although actually very old, this is another Medway-side village that was left with a distinctly Victorian appearance by the 19th century building boom, when it was a source of brick earth and also chalk

Both Christ Church and St Michael's were bombed during the second world war.

Further down the Thames, Mapledurham Lock by-passes another weir.

Holy Trinity, Laygate, was earlier, having been built in 1832-34 to the designs of Anthony Salvin. Both have since been demolished.

Another fishing village, Polkerris had one of the largest fish cellars in Cornwall, so big that it was known as a fish palace.

Just past the Village Green, the Boot (left), one of the oldest pubs in the village, and the Barley Mow beyond, are both still trading, although the General Stores between them has been demolished to make

It is another very hot summer, with sunglasses a common sight, and hundreds gather to worship the sun. Two ladies model the latest conservative fashions, handbags in hand.

This is another view that has now changed considerably because of the ring road, which could be said to slash its way through here.

Although still labelled Dunton's, the ferry and boat-building business now belongs to the Davy family.

Unusually, both the trams near our camera are facing the same way on adjacent lines.

Frinton's development as a resort began as late as 1885, by which time Walton and Clacton were both well-established. Frinton grew at a slower, more genteel pace.

There were four mills hereabouts that at one time or another were involved in the making of paper, tanning hides and grinding corn.

The western side was then demolished and rebuilt, but it was another seven years before the eastern side was pulled down to give the road the width which exists today.