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New Street was the scene of many events. Large crowds gathered along it for the laying of the foundation stone of the Masonic Hall.

The Market Hall, built of red sandstone, dates from the mid 1600s and stands on the site of an earlier hall. The carving between the windows is of a bust of Charles II.

Fowey, the 'Troy Town' popularised by the Victorian writer Quiller Couch, is blessed with a spacious natural harbour, and was once one of the foremost seaports of Britain.

All Saints was built in 1837 on land donated by Sir John Kennaway. Construction cost £3,000 of which £1,500 was given by Rev Joseph Bradney.

A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous view of the High Street show how little it changed throughout the 20th century, with the exception of traffic problems and an increased number

An elegant lamp standard adorns the zebra crossing in front of the Town Hall, and hanging baskets brighten the stonework.

Dominant in this photograph of the east end of the High Street is the Town Hall, which at the date of this photograph had just been rebuilt by local architect C E Ponting.

Eyam`s parish church of St Lawrence has many memories of the tragic visitation of the plague in 1665-6.

Horbury, three miles south-west of Wakefield, was once one of the busiest railway junctions in the country; hence, perhaps, the absence of any form of traffic in the High Street in this photograph.

Before the arrival of the railway, Middleton One Row was aptly named; it consisted of just one row of Georgian cottages.

Cliff lifts became a popular solution to the problems of beach access in the later years of the Victorian period, and were used at a number of seaside resorts.

The whitewashed façade of the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th

AT LAST he [Troy] reached the summit, and a wide and novel prospect burst upon him with an effect almost like that of the Paci?c on Balboa's gaze.

The 13th-century fortress at Inverlochy is a quadrangular enceinte with a round tower at each of the angles; the largest of these is known as Comyn's Tower, and forms the donjon.

The enormous proportions of the castle can be seen in this view of one of the three entrances to the castle, Constable's Tower. Today, the castle is in the care of English Heritage.

The waterfalls of Stock Ghyll Force have been a major attraction to visitors to Ambleside for well over a century; this is a very early photograph of them.

This jumble of stones, just to the north of St Thomas's Church, is all that remains of a priory so wealthy that it once lent money to the King.

This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.

This statue by Brock is of Edward of Woodstock, better known as the Black Prince on account of his black armour.

The clothes of the traders may have changed, but Melton has been at the centre of the sheep farming industry for a number of centuries.

The Edinburgh Castle we see today is, with a few additions, that built by the Earl of Morton following the siege of 1572.

At the eastern extremity of the South Downs, the Royal Sovereign Lighthouse at the foot of Beachy Head warned shipping of the hazards of the chalk cliffs, which now lie under the sea.

This is one of the larger chalets with a garage at the side. Some of the much-loved deckchairs of the period are leaning against the wall, with bicycles for transport.

In the middle of the northern inner circle stands the Cove; it originally consisted of three stones, of which two now remain.