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It was designed by James Wilding, a Liverpool man who was associated with a number of buildings in the town and who also played an important part in the development of Runcorn Hill as a park once the

It may have been created in 1740, when two overhanging stones fell down the hill, making the houses in the Hough shake, and, according to legend, squashing an old woman and her cow.

The van (right) is driving down Fanhams' Hall Lane from Ware, and may be about to turn left past Appleton Farm and Baker's End.

Down the street lies the aptly-named Locomotive pub.

This view looks down Steep Hill from nearer Castle Hill, with the jettied and timber-framed Spinning Wheel Restaurant on the far left, its later Georgian bow windows tucking under the jetty.

Further down we come to the crossroads with Michaelgate and Christ’s Hospital Terrace.

This sublime abbey, scene of many coronations down the centuries, is probably the most famous of English religious buildings, and considered the pinnacle of European Gothic architecture.

The machicolated heights of William Herbert's gatehouse and closet towers look down on the moat which surrounds the famous Yellow Tower, the work of his father William ap Thomas.

With the hoods of the cars down and the trees clearly in leaf, this photograph was obviously taken at the height of summer.

One longer tunnel is said to have run down to the beach.

Modernisation was embraced, and down everything came. What Hitler's bombs missed, the councils of England destroyed. What is built there today only emphasises the point.

This ancient fortress has served as arsenal, prison and royal residence, and is comprised of an irregular mass of buildings erected at various periods down the centuries.

Another view down Nuxley Road taken a little later in the 1950s.

The blue-grey slate walls of Coniston parish church looks down on a memorial to one of England's greatest writers and social reformers, John Ruskin.

The palace was accidentally burnt down by General Hawley's troops in 1746.

This view was taken from below the New Inn, looking down into lower Eype from Mount Lane. The 1860-dated plaque is on Eype School (far left).

Just down in the dale from Askrigg, on the banks of the River Ure, stands the ancient village of Bainbridge, once the capital of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th century as the Forest and

The Gondola was built in 1859 to take tourists up and down the lake, but was later neglected and became a rotting hulk before being restored in 1980 by its present owners, the National Trust.

Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

The single bell is housed in an 18th-century bellcote with an ornate Gothic spire - this has since been removed down to the tops of the windows.

A small village, built to house Parham Estate employees, Cootham is situated near to the foot of the downs.

The shops which lined the steep road down to the pier were demolished shortly after for being 'unhygienic and ugly'.They sold all manner of seaside items from postcards, buckets and spades, paddling

The River Sid starts its short journey to the sea amidst the high land at Broad Down and Farway; here the Bronze Age inhabitants of East Devon buried their dead.

Further down to the right was the village bakery with a 'Hovis' sign on the façade. This bakery was in business into the 1990s.