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Kinmel Hall stands on a site said to date back to 1311, but this present country house emerged from the ashes of a former mansion destroyed by fire in 1848.

It contains Tudor murals and painted texts on its walls, and its parish registers go back to the same period.Hawkshead is one of the prettiest Lakeland villages; it stands at the head of Esthwaite

A public bath house was also part of the block; as well as serving the people of the back streets around Piccadilly, it meant that patients could be given a bath before entering hospital.

The gentleman proudly escorts three elegant ladies dressed in white; other people further back are intrigued by the crab boats, which were probably made by Leonard Lown or his son Henry.

By the early 1930s the building had deteriorated, and in 1935 Mr C J M Welsh bought it for £600 and set about careful restoration to bring it back as near as possible to its original condition.

Here we see the Market Hall (or House) from the rear, and the back of the Town Hall; its 20ft-high wall guards a courtyard.

There was a corn market in Accrington as far back as the 16th century.This Market Hall was opened on 23 October 1868 by Samuel Dugdale, Chairman of the local Board of Health.

The date 1864 is carved at the back. The sculptor was Gibbs of Oxford.

Christ Church is by Sir G G Scott, of 1851, and replaces Holy Rood in the grounds of the mansion owned by the Goddard family - their history there traces back to 1560.

This has led many to believe that this is the house from which Charles II so famously escaped after the Battle of Worcester, running out of the back door as his pursuers came in at the front.

At the back is St John's Gardens, and in front is the open area of St George's Plateau.

Churchtown can trace its recorded history back to the Viking landings, but it is also true that the settlement will have been in existence before the outcasts from Ireland made their way ashore.

The origins of the Pierrots go back to the London success of the mime play 'L'Enfant Prodigue', staged in 1891, and they remained in vogue right up to the outbreak of the Second World War.

There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.

Back in the new city of Milton Keynes, Simpson is one of the villages it engulfed; but it is conserved within its boundaries.

Horley is now firmly back in Surrey, but for some years prior to 1974 it, along with Gatwick Airport, was within Sussex.

Here the photographer looks across the back of the Victorian elementary school and schoolmaster's house at the left of the hay ricks.

The Red Lion dated back to at least 1792, when it was called Blackwater. It originally faced onto the lower part of Blackwater Street, which later became Lord Street.

Photographs taken before 1965 reveal it to have been a truly magnificent structure; documentary records indicate that it was built about 1600, though its predecessors can be tracked back as

Records of the existence of this street go back at least to the 15th century and it is known to have been used by travellers and pilgrims on their way to the Abbey.

The projecting section of promenade shown in both photographs is known as the Donkey Stand, because it was possible to take donkey rides along the sands from here as far as South Slip and back.

Across the A3, Puttenham village lies just south of the narrow chalk ridge of the Hog's Back.

Built on slightly higher land away from the river, it turns its back on it, and this view looks north-west along the High Street to the Church Street crossroads.

There exists a rather persistent but erroneous myth among the locals of Barrow-in-Furness that the town hall was built back to front.