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It was renamed Castle Douglas in 1792 after Sir William Douglas laid out a new village on the site of the old.

The old Town Hall, a square building with Tuscan columns completed in 1768, was replaced in 1903 by new municipal buildings designed by E E Fetch.

We are looking up New Road, with W C King & Sons, ironmongers, on the left.

A hundred years ago, Huddersfield was a collection of villages - now Milnsbridge has been almost absorbed, and is on the outskirts.

To offset this, other trades began to expand and diversify, and new factories opened.

The complex of rivers and canals at Stanstead St Margarets and Stanstead Abbots bring together the Lea, the New River, Stanstead Mill Stream and, slightly further to the south, the River Stort.

The camera looks towards Hampstead High Street, formerly Red Lion Hill.

New Road was part of an old turnpike road, where a wagon drawn by five horses was charged 1/6d.

The rendered façade of the Bell Inn, a 14th-century coaching inn, has now been removed, exposing a fine timber-framed building with a conserved interior.

But there are links with an older Bangor: the wide space once held cotton mills when that was a protected industry in Ireland.

Although the main factory business of Avon Rubber is now in Semington, Cooper Avon Tyres, a subsidiary, still dominates Melksham.

The mill chimneys were an ever-present reminder of the source of the family's wagepacket.

This development includes a new concept in residential care with the building of Poppyfields by Hanover Housing Association.

Many at the Admiralty still considered the new- fangled machine a shameful and un-British device.

Once a small village just a few miles west-south-west of Stockport, Gatley was chosen in the 1840s as the site for the Manchester Royal Lunatic Hospital.

It is only a few miles from Market Rasen on the way to Grimsby, and is well worth a visit.

It is only a few miles from Market Rasen on the way to Grimsby, and is well worth a visit.

In times gone by there was great rivalry and mistrust between the people of Painswick and their neighbours in Stroud, just a few miles away.

In 1885 Solihull was described as a ‘very pleasant village, but a few miles distant’.

It is hard to imagine the crowded streets of Plymouth only a few miles away.

Lexden was once a little village a few miles to the west of Colchester, but has now been subsumed as a suburb.

At RAF Cottesmore, a few miles away, the biggest armada of aircraft ever seen in Rutland prepared to move off for Arnhem, where paratroops were to seize a crossing over the Rhine.

Its ancient Common is still a good place for a wander as you admire the Malverns a few miles away.

The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.