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The street here is dominated on the south side by the slender spire of St Nicholas's church, unfortunately demolished in 1955.

On the right are Mabel Kemp's cycle shop and Isaac Minn's, a saddler's.

The River Weaver creates a link with the Trent & Mersey Canal by way of Northwich's mighty Anderton Boat Lift, where a pair of narrow boats could be lifted 50 feet in two caissons.

This fine public park in the heart of Neath was opened in 1897.

Boats can be hired or moored here, and the building has been restored and is now a house.

Demolished in 1939, this house is thought to be the third dwelling on the site – the first was possibly a Norman tower.

One of the older United Counties single-deckers parks outside the library.

The public and private bars are on the left. The barn at the end of the yard has been demolished, but otherwise there has been little change.

Clacton's pier opened at the height of the pier boom in 1871; extensions in 1890-93 included a new polygonal head, complete with a pavilion.

There is a large parish notice board on the wall behind the lych gate that gives entrance to the churchyard.

The Welsh name for the Sugar Loaf is Pen Y Fal, meaning 'top of the round hill'.

A flotilla of assorted sailing vessels speed on the ebb tide towards the light house marking the harbour entrance, whilst a lone sculler (to the lower left) makes ponderous progress as he battles with

Records describe the local church in 1089 as a fragment of what it was. The abbey was dissolved in 1539, and the property was given to the Earl of Bedford.

It was completed in 1814 by Francis Johnson, and is situated in the Lower Yard, on the site of an earlier, smaller, chapel. In the background is the Record Tower, which dates from 1258.

A few miles from Dunstable, through the Downs, and nowadays part of the commuter belt, Castle Hill road links the three ends of Totternhoe, Church, Middle and Lower.

The shields on either side depict the arms of the Diocese of York. A civic fountain was placed on the bridge in 1880 from which pets as well as people could drink.

The ruins of Bolton Abbey are near a sweeping bend of the River Wharfe, and proved a great attraction for painters, including Landseer and Turner.

The ruins of Bolton Abbey are near a sweeping bend of the River Wharfe, and proved a great attraction for painters, including Landseer and Turner.

The castle is set on a knoll overlooking the River Don.

This view shows the square just before the abandonment of the tramway system. In the background a trolleybus is about to pass a tram as it heads towards the Town Hall.

Following Fairfax's rout of the royalist forces under Sir Ralph Hopton, the church was being used as a magazine and prison.

Mining profits attracted shops and service industries, all eager to cash in on the 40,000-odd tons of copper ore that the mine was producing annually by the early 1860s; by this time, the population had

The town is a startling example of how things changed during the 19th century: little more than a fishing village before the tourists arrived, it had a population of 10,000 by 1901.

The ornamental Yacht Pond at the seaward end of Boscombe Chine has proved to be an enduring attraction for juvenile navigators.