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There is not a breath of wind, so the drainage mill is motionless and the sailing boats are becalmed on the Ant, which is little more than a narrow stream at this point.

The village shop (right) was run by Pamela and Peter Mills, and his green Standard van is parked outside. Cross Farm is on the opposite corner (left), and the school is straight ahead.

The large Bath stone town house on the right was the home of the Collen family, who ran the town mill opposite.

Lancaster's beautiful canal, with its magnificent sea views of Morecambe Bay, was originally the vision of the factory owners of the locality, who were eager to connect their mills with the national canal

That brook has a weir just before it enters the village, which was built to keep the water deeper for a mill that was here two centuries ago.

It stands on the east side of Duck Street at its junction with Mill Lane. Renovations in the 1990s revealed a 'witch bottle' containing liquid that was probably urine concealed inside the chimney.

Beyond the mill, which dates from Norman times, is the square tower of St Mary's. This parish church has some fine stained glass in 28 windows paid for by John Tame, a rich wool merchant.

It is also the source of the River Axe, which powered the nearby Victorian paper mill, now also a museum, restaurant and shop.

An old mill, which was used as a navigation mark by mariners, was destroyed in a storm in 1839.

cotton towns, Hyde was to be the scene of great industrial unrest when in 1848, a local group of Chartists marched through the town to disable the boilers, bringing all machinery in the mills

Farming was long a way of life, but handloom weaving occupied many villagers, with local bobbin mills supplying the industry.

The river powered mills, but later manufacturing became the mainstay.

It is in effect the north-south spine road of the prosperous middle class estate as far north as Ray Mill Road East, the north limit of Ray Lodge's former grounds.

The village seems so much at peace that it is hard to believe there was once a thriving iron foundry close by at Furnace Mill.

In one Glasgow mill they used a treadmill worked by a Newfoundland dog.

The Homepride Flour Mills can be seen in this photograph, and the vessel on the left is a cargo boat, registered in Karachi, and probably delivering grain from Asia.

The Cliff Hotel 1908 The Cliff Hotel, recommended by the Cycle Touring Club in 1908 (their wheel symbol is mounted beside a first floor window), is now Cox's Mill Hotel; it has been extended

Horstead's old mill would have seen many wherries drawn up at its wharf. Coltishall is the gateway to the Broads, set on a low hill above the winding Bure.

In 1865 the Bristol Port & Pier Railway opened its single line between Avonmouth and Hotwells with intermediate stations at Sea Mills and Shirehampton.

The tiny hamlet of Leigh lies on the east bank of the River Severn, perched on land just high enough to raise it from the floodplain, a few miles north-west of Cheltenham.

James Hargreaves was connected with Robert Peel through helping him to introduce mechanical processes at Brookside Mill, so it was appropriate that the James Hargreaves memorial should be unveiled in July

Just before it enters the village, the brook runs over a weir which was built to keep the water deeper for a mill that was here two centuries ago.

Lancaster's beautiful canal, with its magnificent sea views of Morecambe Bay, was originally the vision of the factory owners of the locality, who were eager to connect their mills with the national canal

All those involved with building in this area then would also be building the mills, so it is therefore not surprising that there are resemblances between them.