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Ellesmere Port was the focal point for much of the canal activity in Cheshire.

The Gas Service building on the right housed the offices and showroom of Redditch Gas Company at the time of this photograph.

The Lydstep caverns are only accessible at low tide, with the exception of the Smuggler's Cave, which was probably so named because of the high incidence of smuggling along the rocky

A boy stands on the old slipway into the sluice. At high tide the basin would fill; it was then emptied through an opening at the other end, keeping the harbour free of silt.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

Warringtonians would probably describe this as Market Gate, but Frith's view records the original concept of 1908 to create four matching corners, 'a spacious circus, perfectly symmetrical in shape with

This picture is wonderfully typical of Brecon. It shows the River Llynfell emerging at the base of the cave.

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.

Bondgate gets its name from the area of the town where the bishop of Durham's bond tenants once lived; it was once a separate manor from Darlington.

Between Canterbury and the sea, and built on a section of the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough, Eastry was once the site of a palace of the Kings of Kent, who divided their realm into 'lathes

It was the scene of the first action of the barons against Edward II, whose favourite Piers Gaveston held Scarborough at the time; despite surrendering, Gaveston was seized by the Earl of Warwick and summarily

The thatcher's craft is one of the staple industries of broads villages. This photograph shows reeds growing at the edge of a broad, with the cut stalks stacked by the cottage.

One of the best preserved examples of a Norman motte and keep can be seen inside the grounds of Cardiff Castle.

The Troutbeck valley is one of the most peaceful in the Lake District, and in this view, taken from the old coach route between Windermere and Penrith, the essentially rural nature of much of the district

Kington was also once described as having a 'maze of narrow streets … where too many of the old houses have been refronted, but still have the attraction of a wildly irregular skyline'.

The Market House was built of granite in 1839-40 for the sale of meat, poultry and butter, and the four carved ox heads above the pillars (left) are a notable feature of the street frontage.

The Quay and the harbour were once separate from the rest of the town. The present harbour walls date from the middle of the 19th century; they are built on the site of previous medieval walls.

This is one of Exmouth's two bowling greens - the other is at the back of the town at Phear Park. The high ground beyond is Gun Cliff Gardens, off Carlton Hill.

This rural scene, about a mile east of the city centre along Monks Road, is now much changed.

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

From this elevated view point we get the impression of what must have appeared a somewhat green street.

Queen Victoria commissioned George Gilbert Scott to create the highly decorated interior of this 15th century Chapel to commemorate her husband, Prince Albert, who died in 1861.

The ruins of the once luxurious state rooms at Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

Studland has one of the best and least tampered-with beaches in Dorset - a real reminder of those halcyon days when such luminaries as George III promoted the merits of sea bathing.