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This photograph was taken further up the street from no C537055.The shops on the left bring back many memories, and F W Woolworth is there as well.

Here we see two extremes of worship - the cathedral in the distance, and the more modest St Mary-on- the Bridge.

The statue of John Bright MP stands in front of Charles Kershaw`s Central Corn Mill.

The elegant 75-foot spire of Christ Church is prominent in the landscape; the old ironworks and spoil tips are behind it. The terraces of Newtown are to the right.

There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.

Sited on a Bronze Age tumulus, the Beacon was built in Elizabethan times and was used at the time of the Armada to warn of the Spanish threat.

To the south of the village, brick making has been an important local industry.

Referred to locally as the `new bridge`, it was opened by Prince Charles the Prince of Wales on 5 June 1996; it was built by a Franco-British consortium.

At an elevation of 747ft, Penistone always suffers with the weather, particularly in the ferocious winters of 1933, 1947 and 1963.

The headquarters of Somerset County Cricket Club, founded in 1875, lie on the south bank of the River Tone; although the grandstands are much changed, the arched one still in essence survives.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

The original unveiling date in May 1926 had to be postponed because of the General Strike. There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park.

One mile inland is the church of St Mary, which includes the nave of the Augustinian priory founded here in 1119 by Walter de Gant.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

During the mid 19th century, proposals were put forward to build a railway line to connect the town with the south of England.

Seven miles north of Tynemouth, the Hall was designed by Sir John Vanbrugh, and completed for Admiral George Delaval in 1707. Over the years the Hall has experienced its share of misfortune.

Appledore stands on a branch of the River?Rother close by?Romney Marsh. During the 9th century, it was an important Viking base. From here they penetrated far inland on destructive forays.

Its name is believed to have come from the appearance of charcoal workers as they emerged from working in the woods.

A village on the eastern edge of the St Leonards Forest at a high point on the London to Brighton trunk road. The Red Lion, c1550, is an old coaching inn.

On the top floor the south-east wing contains the long gallery; below it are what are now called the Regency rooms.

The road curving up to the left of the castle is Roydon Road, known at this time as Zulu Road.

This scene is a contrast with the one seven years earlier, when the town packed into the Market Place to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII.

Beyond the weir is the main river and the trees along the north bank of the Ouse.

The cathedral was renovated in the 1870s, when its partly ruinous fabric was restored by Henry Roe, who also built the Synod Hall (on the left) and connecting bridge.