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The high altar was designed by Pugin and manufactured in Dublin at a cost of £700; it was of Gothic design and made of Caen stone, richly carved. It was given by James Lomax of Clayton Hall.

Enlargement of the photograph reveals the signboards with the various Sunday papers vying for your custom with such enticing lures as 'The world of the formerly married', 'Ulysses – the inside

The changing face of the Swan Hotel is displayed in the next sequence of photographs. The Town Hall was designed in 1855 by the Bath architect Thomas Fuller – he later emigrated to Canada.

'The Prisoner of Zenda' was showing at the Regal Cinema in the elegant North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate when this picture was taken.

Here we see the entrance to the charming little village of Wass, which lies in a shallow valley under the wooded southern escarpment of the Hambleton Hills, seen in the background.

Standing on a hilltop, Aynho is Northamptonshire's most southerly village, and one of its most picturesque.

Finedon is a large, scattered village with many houses and cottages built by the last squire of the village who tragically lost all three of his sons.

Alexandra Terrace overlooks the line of Exmouth's sea front, its view as uninterrupted today as when this photograph was taken a century ago.

Here we see the overgrown and sadly-neglected ruin of Monmouth Castle as it looked in 1893.

Here is a wonderfully atmospheric shot, typical of the best of late 19th-century photography, illustrating the beautiful view from which Belvoir derives its name.

The not unlovely village of Saxelby is situated about a mile north of industrial Asfordby, and on a stream which empties into the River Wreake.

To the south of the Market Square are the abbey buildings. This is a Victorian reconstruction of the last remnants of the Cluniac priory.

Also known as Piper's Hill Common, this beautiful nature reserve has developed from wood pasture; that is, rough grazing with a scattering of trees.

The architectural style suggests that St Dunstan's was built towards the end of the 15th century, although there is a record of a church on the site as early as 1291.

The chapel is in the top of the house, next to a nursery that offered views in all directions. Members of the family could stand watch while a service was being held.

Until perhaps halfway through the last century the majority of people living in the town (Nick Thomas) A view of St Mary's Grove, opposite the Church.

Monton had been a separate village until the incorporation of Eccles, when it was taken under the new council's wing. Monton Green is also the name of the road in our photograph.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on

Situated at the head of the valley of the East Allen, Allenheads was an important centre for the lead-mining industry from the late 18th to the mid 19th century; the mines here produced around 14 per

This clock tower monument was erected in 1861 as a memorial to Philip, the eldest son of Sir George and Lady Musgrave of Edenhall, who had died two years earlier in Madrid aged twenty-six.

This house of 1600 was built by Henry Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon, using stone robbed from the remains of Leicester Abbey; but it was to be reduced to a skeletal ruin by fire 45 years later.

Elsecar is situated 3 miles south of Barnsley. This is the industrial side of the vast Wentworth Estate: Elsecar was at the forefront of coal exploitation in the 18th century.

In the north-west corner, Temple Moore designed a window with tracery to match that of the old three-light east window, which he had relocated to the south-west corner.

In 1815 Sir George Jerningham began paying it the sum of £60 a year, and, together with his brother Edward, built a new church on the site. It opened on 5 June 1817.