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Work on the construction of the viaduct began in 1894 and was completed in 1897, but owing to the collapse of one of its piers it was closed straight away.

The Twyn and its surrounding wall were built in the 1890s with money from the Barry Railway Company when they purchased a small piece of the common from the parish.

The 16th century timber-framed Plough and Fleece public house on the left of the road was just one of the three pubs in the village.

The Fox Inn dominates this view up Bow Street to the tall Market Cross, which we can just see at the head of Westgate in the distance.

This imposing edifice, with a front porch of great style, is perhaps surprisingly grand for such a small village on the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors.

The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s.

The view is dominated by the gents' loos of the Queen's Head (left), which were demolished in 1982-83. The roof of the Old Vicarage rises behind.

His Punch voice (produced by a device held in his mouth called a swazzle) was amplified by means of the loudspeaker to the right of the stage.

This crossing is at the east end of Bury Road, with No 58 visible through the trees, just west of the traffic lights and junction of the roads from Bury and Norwich.

The handsome building in the centre of this view, adorned with a balustrade and pinnacles, was a branch of the Midland Bank in 1950.

This beautiful parish church of All Saints was built by the abbot of Ramsey for his manor estate in the late 14th and 15th centuries. The cobble stone walls were all originally plastered.

Judging by the rows of sweet jars on display in E W Winfield's Cash Stores, it must have been a popular shop with the local youngsters.

The church is near the intersection of Well Street and Church Street, and the vicarage lies beyond.

The Chapel lies at the heart of the school and the inside, like the outside, is in the Gothic style of the 19th century.

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

Situated along Ayston Road, to the north of the town, it was bought in 1895 by C R Haines who added a wing. Threatened with closure in 1925, it has survived and flourished ever since.

Kendal's church of the Holy Trinity is Cumbria's largest parish church, and dates from the 13th century, although it was extensively restored 60 years before this photograph was taken, between

Church Brough is clustered around the parish church of St Michael, and there is also an area of the town known as Brough Sowerby.

The town eventually became a station on the London to Dorchester line. Given the lack of straight sections of line in the vicinity, the railway here was nicknamed 'Castleman's Corkscrew'.

The little village of Loose, pronounced 'Luse', is pleasantly situated on the little river of the same name just to the south of Maidstone.

By 1925 there were just over a million vehicles of all types on the roads, of which 695,000 were privately-owned cars.

Hayes department store on the right, now expanded from the one shop in this view, and on the left the picturesque Walcot Parade of about 1770, with its vaults for coal cellars and stores beneath the curving

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

Monk Bar on Goodramgate is one of the finest gates in the York city walls, and the closest to York Minster. It is vaulted on three floors and still has a working portcullis.