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The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

More tall town houses look out to sea over the sea wall. These are known locally as Albion Terrace.

This is a famous town centre view. This clock was originally a project by the Redcar Urban District Council to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902.

Trade is quiet; one hopes the large stall well-stocked with boots and shoes has done better business earlier.

This is now the oldest surviving house in the town.

Paddle steamers arrive and depart from Boscombe's pier during its Edwardian heyday.

Lord Donegall was quite willing, since he had just built the new Belfast Castle on the Antrim side of the town. He

This is the busy main street of the town. Lyndon Sims' well-advertised record shop (note the HMV banner, left) is now a beautician's.

As we pass beneath the bridge, still on the Egham bank, the 18th-century Swan Hotel on the right now also occupies the boathouse and garage in front of it, behind the ladies with their parasols.

This village was anciently known as Eightham, and was once a market town, with a Whit-Wednesday fair called Cockscomb Fair.

Here, shoppers were offered an impressive choice of produce right in the centre of the city, just opposite the tram and trolleybus stops outside the town hall.

The town of Wadebridge falls within the parish of St Breock, but the church lies in a quiet valley nearly a mile away.

Promenading in the afternoon, these late Victorians are out to see - and to be seen. A group of London businessmen founded the town in 1837.

On the left is Bognor's pier, one of the town's more familiar features. Constructed in 1865, the structure later became something of a liability and had to be rebuilt in 1910.

In this view the trees are more mature and obscure the long facades of this eleven hundred foot long road.

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items

This is the busy main street of the town. Lyndon Sims' well-advertised record shop (note the HMV banner, left) is now a beautician's.

The town comprises two villages, Upper and Lower Sheringham, the former more peaceful and retaining its fishing and farming traditions.

Indeed, the spacious, well-planned town with its new villas, sea bathing and attractions, caused rich people to settle.

Now further down Bridge Street, Frith's photographer was looking south uphill past the Newcastle Street crossroads.

Situated on the edge of the Macclesfield Forest, the Ridgegate Reservoir was one of the first reservoirs built to supply local towns.

Trams used to run along Mandale Road between Norton and North Ormesby, but that was more than seventy years ago.

The Cartwright Memorial Hall in Lister Park, Bradford, built during the time of Bradford's pre-eminence as one of the major woollen manufacturing towns of the world, now houses one of the city's best museums

On the edge of Romney Marsh, this village, with its broad street, was once a flourishing seaport and shipbuilding centre; it was captured by the Danes with a fleet of 250 ships in the 9th century.