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Until recent times textile mills jostled the building. As a part of the Heavy Woollen District of Dewsbury and the Spen Valley, Morley suffered during the slump of the 1930s.

Diveting eastwards up Mill Street, our tour reaches St Cuthbert's Church, which served the east part of the town and was possibly of Anglo-Saxon origin.

Alkali was needed not only for the production of soap but also to finish textiles in the nearby Lancashire cotton mills.

There is a good range of timber-framed houses on both sides, and in the distance are the walled grounds, more of a small park, of Mill House on the Appleford Road.

The mill was built in 1753 and is the oldest standing windmill in the Broads, although now derelict. At Acle there is a minuscule priory founded by Roger Bigod.

Richard Cobden's calico mill employed villagers from miles around in the 1830s. On the left, a striped post bearing the red torch of Lancashire County Council denotes a school ahead.

This area was built by the mill owner Titus Salt as a model industrial village alongside a canal, river and railway, well away from the pollution of Bradford.

In the mid 19th century, there were over twenty-five mills working in the town, but the boom and bust years of trade protection caused much unemployment.

Carrickfergus was to share the tumults which the castle brought, but the town we see here was busy and prosperous, with markets twice a week and five linen mills needing workers.

Turning into Dovecote Road we wind half a mile east to the corner of Mill Road to finish this chapter on a literary note.

This large mill situated below the town on the river Wensum was built in 1833, and constructed of white brick and stone.

There was even a cotton mill in the middle of the town in the late 18th century, owned by the Bowen family.

Dunster's Mill House was a 15th-century semi-aisled hall house with an associated watermill; it has now been moved because the old site is inundated by the new Bewl Water reservoir.

Other industries included coal mines, a silk mill, a magnesium works, and a mining equipment manufacturer.

A hundred years ago, six mills employed some 600 people; today the buildings have been converted for other uses, and harmonise within the traditional village scene, the focal point of which is

Wealthy mill owners and industrialists found it handy to leave their boats in the shelter of the dock or the canal basin, and leisure became more and more a source of income for Glasson Dock.

This popular seaside town was built around a mill and an old village. The cliffs rise to about 70ft, and are the seaward end of the chalk ridge which stretches right across Norfolk.

At the time of writing, this remarkable building is visually threatened by a proposal to build an estate of run-of-the-mill houses and flats on the redundant RAF Stanmore, immediately to the west of the

This fine photograph of Malmesbury Abbey was taken from the north, with the abbey mill buildings below.

His workers at Thorne Mills erected a drinking fountain to Major Barker's memory in Clarence Park in 1893.

R L Kisby and the Trustee Savings Bank (right) have gone, and Mills the newsagents have taken their place.

Henry Milling & Co's family grocers with its familiar Ovaltine sign soon disappeared; Gaskell's Farm Shop stopped selling bacon, and time was running out for John Manners' 'Gents & Boys' clothes shop.

Its first house, Green Bank, is bigger than the rest and has a bay window, being built for a mill manager or the owner of the row.

The drive of the former Harris family home, which was built c1870, gave access to the Harris Welfare Association Woodlands Club House, which was established in the former woollen mill to the