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In medieval times the living quarters would have been heated by a fire in the middle of the floor of the main room with the smoke simply drifting out through the thatch, blackening the roof beams

There is industry in the foreground, with the smoking chimney of a china clay dry, railway trucks at a repair works and the gasworks on the left.

Craster oak-smoked kippers are considered to be the best in England, and anyone paying a visit to the village really should not leave without buying some.

The river Taw runs through the plain behind the smoking chimney, with Tawstock beyond.

With the slaughterhouse, the 'chemical manure' factory and a railway engine shed, the houses to the left must have suffered greatly from the smoke and smells emanating from this site.

Horbury's Grammar School was in Highfield Road, where older pupils were provided with a smoking room.

Customers at The Red House could not only see its smoke but also watch a steady stream of vessels hauling freights up to Norwich. There is a fine church with a Norman doorway.

The most famous iron furnace here was the 'Bedlam Furnace': with its flames and smoke, and noise and grime, it must have seemed like the very gates of Hell.

There are bemused children, a caped policemen patrolling the area on horseback and a man sitting on a fence smoking a pipe. On the left of the picture there are signs of hedge cutting.

At this time it was a smoke-begrimed steelmaking town with a population of over 380,000. This is the junction of South Street and Union Street.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

There are bemused children, a caped policemen patrolling the area on horseback and a man sitting on a fence smoking a pipe. On the left of the picture there are signs of hedge cutting.

Yet one can still sense the pall of smoke that lies over all of the buildings in the valley.

Now bypassed by the A616, Stocksbridge has been 'cleaned up'; it no longer has the constant pall of smoke hanging over it, as it did when this photograph was taken.

Richard Jefferies described the scene in the 1880s: 'Like the spokes of a wheel converging, streams of human life flow into this agitated pool...

Now bypassed by the A616, Stocksbridge has been 'cleaned up'; it no longer has the constant pall of smoke hanging over it, as it did when this photograph was taken.

The air here, once so dense with the smoke of the ironworks, is now crisp and clear.

In the gable is a flushwork 10-spoked wheel.

It had its own abattoir, smoke house and mobile shop. Further on is another former shop with a chewing-gum machine; beyond it are the telephone box and the Parish Room of 1904.

The strangely landlocked lighthouse was safely positioned away from the cliff edge but not too central in the town, where the smoke from coal fires might have obscured the light.

The smoking chimney of the paper mill is in the middle foreground, with the cottages of Chartham Hatch just behind.

The original mast was a wagon tipped on its side with a pole thrust through the spokes of the wheels.

The Crown is a 200-year-old pub that once hosted 'smoking concerts'. The plasterwork crown above the entrance is dated 1874.

The 2003 event surpassed all records, with 25,000 people watching two and a half tonnes of fireworks go up in smoke, while £25,000 was raised for good causes.