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Church Brough is clustered around the parish church of St Michael, and there is also an area of the town known as Brough Sowerby.

The town eventually became a station on the London to Dorchester line. Given the lack of straight sections of line in the vicinity, the railway here was nicknamed 'Castleman's Corkscrew'.

The little village of Loose, pronounced 'Luse', is pleasantly situated on the little river of the same name just to the south of Maidstone.

By 1925 there were just over a million vehicles of all types on the roads, of which 695,000 were privately-owned cars.

Hayes department store on the right, now expanded from the one shop in this view, and on the left the picturesque Walcot Parade of about 1770, with its vaults for coal cellars and stores beneath the curving

This pair of old railway coaches parked on the cliff top at Ravenscar, the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk, served as basic accommodation for campers in the mid-Fifties, but they have long since

Monk Bar on Goodramgate is one of the finest gates in the York city walls, and the closest to York Minster. It is vaulted on three floors and still has a working portcullis.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

In 1928 the Electra was one of the first cinemas in Sheffield to show part silent, part sound films.

On the upper reaches of the Wear and once a part of County Durham, Washington was where William Doxford built his first ships before moving to Pallion in the 1870s.

Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size: 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins - a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

Ask a Chelmsfordian to name the biggest planning crime in the town's history, and the chances are that they will mention the demolition of Tindal Street in 1969- 71.

A posed photograph of one of the local weather-beaten characters in his fisherman's oilskins.

Just on the left of the picture is the entrance to Lewis's Department Store, the first large-scale retail outlet in Manchester.

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

For a couple of decades or so Sheffield's public parks became the focal point for local Whit-Sunday celebrations.

Two miles south of Congleton stands Little Moreton Hall, a magnificent moated manor house, originally built in the mid-15th century by Sir Richard de Moreton and added to by successive generations of his

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

This chapter opens with some views of a long-lost industrial Thames.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

We are on a high, sandy hillside on the outskirts of Hastings. Nearby, Minnis Rock Hermitage has three rock cells cut out of a sandstone cliff face; it is well conserved.

Holiday makers walk the high street, and a coach and four is about to pull up outside the Cors-y-Cedol Hotel, one of the resort's many hotels.

To the left, the stone ramparts of Worlebury Iron Age Hillfort can be seen on the very top of the hill.

The architect of this building was William Waddington who designed quite a number of distinguished local buildings. This part of the building, which housed the offices, has an impressive entrance.