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The car park, the gardener tending the flowers on the fountain, the well-used bench beside it - all these are signs of civic pride and the wish to attract visitors to the city.

Overlooked by the then newly-built Plaza Hotel, Piccadilly Square is a main focus in the city and incorporates a bus terminal and garden area.

It was absorbed into the city in 1837 and has expanded considerably since. It was in St John's that the Worcester Pearmain was discovered in 1872 in the market garden of William Hales.

The Heart of the City scheme has seen the opening of the Millennium Galleries and the Winter Garden and the re-designing of the Peace Gardens.

Sophia Gardens can be regarded as the city's first public park.

A little further west, at the start of the Embankment Gardens, Frith's photographer has not quite got his focus correct. The urn on its pedestal was renewed in 1948.

These ruins and other buildings still used today are set amid peaceful gardens, which are a haven from the city outside.

Union Terrace Gardens is a park in the heart of the city of Aberdeen, set to one side of Union Terrace.

There are now several other venues for live entertainment in the town, including the Winter Gardens, home of the world-famous Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Built between 1860 and 1866, this building housed the financial offices of the corporation when the town hall proved to be too small for the ever-expanding city council.

The photograph shows the rear of the red brick master's house of c1725, which was originally of two stories until a third was added around 1835, backed by a neat garden and tennis courts.

Many of the Manchester businessmen that settled in Alderley in the mid 19th century came from a Nonconformist background and they often kept up their connections with the city.

The former Palm House of the Botanical Gardens was converted into the 'Best of Local Industry' exhibition, which included a 'Fine Arts' and an 'Industrial Design' section.

A priest is mentioned in Domesday, and it is possible that his wooden church stood on the site of the present church of St Nicholas, which was dedicated in 1119.

Rising up Lancaster Road, away from the prison, the vista through to the City's War Memorial is broken by this magnificent set of wrought iron gates interspaced by stone piers crowned by vases.

Alterations were carefully made; Mrs Hoyle concentrated on the garden. Her

However, the drift from the overcrowded cities (especially London) and into the countryside is not a new idea; it has been a phenomenon of the entire 20th century. Sir.

Drivers at Botanic Gardens contributed £10 towards the cost of the Queen Victoria Statue now in front of the City Hall.

In that year the population of Glasgow was computed at 255,650, and for the first time it was claimed that Glasgow was now not only the largest city in Scotland, but second only to London itself

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

By the end of the 1990s Springfield Quay had been transformed yet again, emerging as the foremost leisure and entertainment areas of the city, with an Odeon multiplex cinema and a score of restaurants

Working with the local firm of Laings (who progressed to international fame), and other local contractors, the council oversaw an ambitious housing expansion programme that would see the city grow

Vickerstown was described as 'a Marine Garden City'; there were great similarities between it and Bourneville in Birmingham and Port Sunlight on Merseyside, which were both built later, suggesting that

Vickerstown was described as 'a Marine Garden City'; there were great similarities between it and Bourneville in Birmingham and Port Sunlight on Merseyside, which were both built later, suggesting that