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The Master Builder's House, now an hotel, was built by Henry Adams so that he might cut a dash on ship-launching days.

A new visitor centre now marks the entrance to Conisbrough Castle, one of the best-preserved Norman castles in the country.

What a contrast to the previous photograph this view of Kirkgate, Otley is. The lovely market town lies at the entrance to Wharfedale.

Looking in the opposite direction to No S23030 (page 79), we can see on the right-hand site of the street two of the 48 public houses that could be found in the town in 1889.

We are looking along Albion Terrace into Station Street, with the impressive portico of the station entrance on the left in the distance. The railway arrived in Saltburn in 1861.

This pleasant open space next to the railway line was donated as a recreation ground by Alderman Arthur Bennett, a former mayor and a passionate believer in the importance of preserving Warrington's historic

The Scotland Road area can be seen in the distance - this was at a time before the impact of the building of the Cockhedge Shopping Centre in the 1980s.

The west side offered some of Warrington's finest shops.

After this feat of engineering in May 1981, the Academy was demolished and rebuilt! The single-storey public conveniences (far right) vanished with the building of the second river crossing.

This view from the Lord Rodney Hotel looking towards Central Station shows the increase in road signs and road markings necessary with the growth of road traffic in the 1960s.

The King's Arms, then run by R G Wood, has closed, but the arms remain on the present carpet shop. Beyond is the brick Lloyds Bank of 1896.

This broad junction is now occupied by a mini-roundabout, but in 1911 it appears that nobody was too bothered about which side of the unmade road traffic chose to use.

The buildings to the left are the river side of Quay Street and served as port facilities for the town. Quay Street was also once known as 'Schippistrete', a very descriptive title.

The Prison Governor's House, now the home of the excellent Town Museum, built in 1779 at the same time as the first prison, was built within the Castle precinct.

It was to Inverary that MacIan of Glencoe was sent to swear allegiance to William III. MacIan's unavoidable delay in reaching Inverary led to the massacre of Glencoe.

Broad and leafy, it retains a handful of older houses like the mock-Tudor one we can just see on the left in this photograph.

This is one of the oldest schools in the Midlands. The timber-framed upper storey, supported on pillars, was built in the 15th century; the ground floor was underbuilt in the Elizabethan period.

The catalyst for the subsidiary settlement mentioned in the caption to N203006 was the building of two turnpike roads through Northfield, one of which was eventually to become the A38 (

It looks horribly dated now, but this was state-of-the-art opulence in 1965.

During a French attack on England in 1545, a large fleet of warships anchored off Brading harbour in the hope that the English fleet could be lured out of Portsmouth.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully. She is either about to put warps ashore or has just taken them aboard.

Until 1950 the 18th- century water mill played a vital role in the economy of the countryside; in the early part of the 20th century it had a power saw driven by water.

By this time the humble fishing cobles had developed into a sizeable fishing fleet of much larger boats, which meant that they could travel further afield for their catch.

Two landmarks oppose one another on a busy route from the railway station.