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The Toll House at St Stephens was built in 1761 by the Launceston Turnpike Trust, which had come into being the previous year with the intention of 'widening and keeping in repair several roads leading

During the early years of the 18th century, facilities were improved with the construction of a harbour and quays.

Sails are being raised on the clinker-built boat as she prepares to get under way and enter the Menai Strait.

The view is dominated by a fine 17th-century stone-faced house of two bays under a stone-slated roof, with substantial end stacks. The lower, later wing has been given a modern door.

Comparing this view of Friar Street to the similar one taken in 1891, shows that the three-gabled building next to the car has had a coat of render stripped away to expose its timbers, while the shop on

This is one of the main routes out of the city. Behind the horse and carriage is the old Yorkshire Penny Bank (1895). On the left is the Theatre Royal (1864), originally the Royal Alexandra Theatre.

At the top of the High Street, the photographer looks south. The Lime Street/Lurke Street junction is beyond the Swan Hotel's handcart.

This is the original Adelphi Hotel: it was built in c1840 on the site of Adelphi Gardens by the Midland Railway Company, and was in direct competition with the London North Western Railway Hotel, which

To William Wallace Kincaid, the American corset manufacturer, Letchworth was the natural choice of site for his first English factory, and it was the city's biggest employer for almost eighty years

Lechlade, situated on the river Thames, is the gateway to the Cotswolds from the south-east.

When the garrison finally surrendered, its stand was recognised by the Parliamentarians, who allowed it to march out with full honours of war, fully armed with drums beating and colours flying.

The Grand Union Canal emerges from the Braunston Tunnel east of Braunston village and descends past the village on a flight of six locks. This view looks west along the High Street.

The Phoenix and the attached shopping precinct to the west of the modern town centre are typical examples of the late 1950s to early 1960s New Town expansion.

This view looks north towards the Market Place and captures well the character of this market town, most of whose 19th- and late 18th-century buildings still line the streets.

The crowd look on as the catch is being landed for the market. An expectant bevy of seagulls watch carefully in case there are any fishy morsels coming in their direction.

One suspects that these groups of children, with one accompanying nursemaid, seated on the benches and the steps of the canopied bandstand, have been induced to pose by the photographer, to complement

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

These fishwives have been shrimping with nets on the sands and filling the baskets they carry on their backs.

Heysham became the centre for travel to the Isle of Man, and in 1923 the Fleetwood services were transferred there.

We are looking westwards to the snout of Goggin's Barrow (right), Black Head (centre), and Redcliff Point (left) above Weymouth Bay.

In November 1869, William T Gunner of Will Hall wrote in his diary: 'walked with Fred Crowley to see the site of his new house [Ashdell House, seen in this photograph]; he will be married shortly.'

Across the River Wey from Godalming is Farncombe, once a hamlet but now in effect a suburb of the town.

The River Thames curves eastward north of the village and then converges towards Church Street, some of whose gardens have a water frontage.

Miss Matilda Talbot donated Lacock Abbey, together with most of the village, Manor Farm and Bewley Common, to the National Trust between 1944 and 1946.