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Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.

On our left as we approach Dorking from the north are the Stepping Stones. Contrary to belief, the much-photographed Stepping Stones are not that old.

Summer Hill House, on the west side of Charmouth Road, was the Victorian home of the borough magistrate Walter Banfield Wallis.

This photograph of the west front was taken shortly after completion of the Temple Moore restoration, as we can see from the light-coloured stonework around the window, buttresses and parapets

Richmond's Norman fortress was begun by Alan the Red of Brittany in 1071 and dominates the entrance to Swaledale.

Despite the fact that they were supposed to be on the same side when it came to defending the Borders, the Herons of Ford and the Manners of Etal did not always see eye-to-eye.

Our photographer is standing on the Prince's Landing Stage, looking up the floating road towards St Nicholas' Place and the church of Our Lady and St Nicholas at the top.

They founded their town of Corinium by the River Churn, in an area occupied by a native tribe called Dobunni.

This attractive small town has many picturesque old houses in its narrow streets.

There has been an inn on the site since the 14th century. It became the St George and Dragon in 1596, the Lord Abingdon Arms in 1754, and the Lopes Arms after a terrible fire in 1809.

In the foreground on the left is the Huntingdon Co-operative store, but overshadowing the whole of the street is the spire of Trinity Church.

Carnforth, six miles north of Lancaster, has a place in history as a railway town.

Even before the arrival of the railway, Ware was home to a population of rising middle-class entrepreneurs who demanded the most modern housing.

As late as 1930, parts of the High Street at Berkhamsted were not fully made up; but with the increase of traffic on this main arterial road, it had one of the first junctions in Hertfordshire to become

The town of Broxbourne runs along the old north road, and was originally one of the largest parishes in the county.

This view shows the 'sublime horrors' of the waterfall that the first visitors came to see: the hotel provided for their needs.

Downstream from the old bridge, the Wharfe takes on a gentle benign feel. Here pleasure boats can be hired in the summer months.

Castle Douglas lies close by the main road from Dumfries to Stranraer at the north end of Carlingwark Loch. Until the end of the 1700s it was known as Carlingwark.

The shops behind the big lamp in the centre of the road are interesting.

This is arguably the most famous public open space in the world, commemorating Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

As part of the redevelopment of the central section of Leeds, the Leeds Estates Company embarked on an ambitious scheme to transform the squalor between Vicar Lane and Briggate.

In January 1905, whilst laid up at Milford for the winter, she caught fire and sank under the weight of hose water in her hull.

The question of taste was fundamental to Victorian church building. Classic was denounced as vulgar and pagan.

owing to the growth of cheap foreign holidays and an industrial recession.