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Located at the corner of Stockerston Road and South Backway, West Bank was built in 1866 by Howard Candler, 'a small, energetic mathematician', who always refused to have more than six boys boarding.

Beyond Cundys Lane is High Bank, a medieval hall-house; then comes the thatched 17th-century Tudor Cottage and the former post office.

Here we look east along the River Witham, flowing out of Brayford Pool, with the High Street reached by steps from each bank.

There are roads along each bank and houses face the river, giving it a slightly Dutch feel.

The inn on the banks of the river was two cottages and a shop in 1840.

The cobblestones was the dock area where the barges would come into the village to unload their goods.

Locally-quarried stone was transported from here to London by barge as far back as Roman and Norman times.

Glen Middle Mill 1908 If Sally Spencer, the lady looking at the photographer, came back today, she would see that almost all in this view (except the rear block of Pavey's Temperance Hotel) has

Back at ground level we see the buildings that grew up around the station in the 1880s and 1890s, including Horley and Sons, corn and coal merchants, Vevers and Sons, plumbers and decorators

The tall three- storey building remains, now an Oxfam shop, while all beyond the towering Baptist Church on the left has since been demolished and is now the entrance to the car parks formed between

Heading south towards Bourne, the route diverts north-east of the town to Edenham, a delightful village on the east bank of the winding East Glen River, whose church has many remarkable monuments to the

To the left of the Market Hall is the back of the former Court House.

Friars Fleet winds along the back of the town and joins the Ouse close by the quay.

Back in 1910, the locals knew that the cattle fair brought prosperity and variety to an industrial landscape.

The members of St Michael's Sparrow Club were farmers backed by the Rural District Council; they made war on sparrows for damaging crops and building nests in thatch.

Its establishment dates back to the foundation of the great seminary at Douai in France, which was founded in 1568 to supply Catholic missionaries to England during a period of Catholic repression

Further north, at the A245 Parvis Road junction, the photographer looks back down High Road with Lloyds TSB on the left and the Dutch-gabled fire station of 1885 on the right, complete with its siren

The council moved out in 1983, and the building was brought back to its original state and re-opened in 1984.

This archway and wall date back over two hundred years; it is known as Gannock Gate, and forms part of a huge park known as The Walks, where it was the perfect place for fashionable folk

Back in Victorian times it was surrounded by a degenerate Leeds, including drinking-houses and prostitution.

A walk up the hill takes the visitor back a hundred years.

Llandudno stands back against the mass of the Great Orme's head, which shelters it from north winds, and on a neck of sand between two bays, which are so close together that in rough weather their spray

It was installed back in 1250 as the town's water supply.

Close to the village, medieval ridge and furrow cultivation has been preserved in its meadows and closes, and on its western edge the back lanes seem to be in an unusually complete state.