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One of Campbell's White Funnel fleet, probably the 'Britannia', ties up at the pier.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

Here we see one of Formby's older properties, a fine example of the type of cottage that was once common to this part of the coast.

After centuries of starvings, beheadings and executions, the site later became a haven of tranquillity in 19th-century Pontefract.

The old lords of Kingston were the Norman nobles, the Lacys, but this palatial Restoration house was built in 1663-5 for Sir Ralph Bankes, the son of the former attorney general Sir John.

Ripon is one of England's smallest cathedral cities; in 1836 it became the centre of a new bishopric.

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

In 1842 Port Erin was chosen as the location for a Marine Biological Station; it still exists, though these days it is a part of the University of Liverpool.

Parts of the Lagan Canal were cuts made to bypass wide bends in the river, but most of the route is the river itself, with the tow-path added.

Impressive as this memorial to Viscount Leverhulme is, it should not be forgotten that there is another, and a very live one, on the Western Isles.

A thousand years ago, Fareham was a patchwork of ancient woodland, heathland, some cultivated fields, a harbour and a river.

The village in which John Bunyan once lived has almost become a place of pilgrimage.

At the town centre, then as now, was the Market Square, mostly lying on the east side of the main street.

Some of the streets of Vickerstown were named after renowned people from the recent Boer War (1899-1902).

Beaulieu is now the home of the Montagu family. Close to the Abbey is the National Motor Museum, a splendid collection of cars founded by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.

Abbotsbury has one of the loveliest settings on the Dorset coast at the western end of the long pebbled Chesil Beach. Inland are the rolling downlands of west Dorset.

This open space at the junction of the roads leading to Hitchin, Wheathampstead and London was large enough to support the open-air market, which stretched the 100 yards through the middle of the picture

The Great Ouse has always been of importance to Bedford's economy and pleasure, and successive administrations have successfully managed the environs of the river to keep them as an amenity for the benefit

Rising above the High Street are the tower and delicate spire of All Saints' Church, built in the 18th century to replace a Norman church which was destroyed when the spire collapsed on top of it in

Across the Bain, Tattershall is altogether less ravaged by 1960s and later rebuilding.

When Ascot commemorated the accession of Edward VII by building a new grandstand, the Duke of Richmond responded by building an imposing two-tier grandstand to accommodate 10,000 persons at a cost of £40,000

Houghton on the River Test lends its name to one of the most exclusive fishing clubs in the world. Founded in 1822, the Houghton Club is restricted to fewer than 20 members.

This rural scene can be found to the west of Darlington. A huge green on either side of the road gives breathing space to the village.

Hipswell Hall is a 15th-century fortified manor house built for the Fulthorpe family, whose coat of arms is carved on the bay window to the right.