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North of Bakewell, an ancient packhorse bridge crosses the water. For centuries, lines of horses would lumber over this bridge weighed down with freight. Often, lead would be the main load.

It has polygonal buttresses and a re-set Norman north doorway with one order of colonnettes and zig-zag moulding, which had probably been moved.

This village is just one mile from Boston Spa and even less from the Great North Road.

The north aisle was enlarged in 1888.

Once an important coaching town on the Great North Road, Wetherby went into decline for a number of years as long-distance stagecoach travel lost out to the railways.

A woman stands precariously on the deck of an early motor launch, but neither she nor the child is wearing a life jacket. Notice the corrugated iron boathouse on the right.

Both are large; the north one is the more select, and the south more popular – just a penny pier where dancing goes on all day in the summer.

Looking north to the church a sense of nostalgia is created by the old style 'T' junction road sign.

The Prince Albert stands further south on Horley Road, actually in South Earlsfield rather than Salfords, and north of the junction of Horley Road with Woodhatch Road.

The north winds have taken their toll and bent the lamp-posts which illuminate this slope during the evening.

Other sites include the whole of Langness (which is designated a bird sanctuary), and the Ayres conservation area in the north of the island.

About one mile to the north-west is the bastle house of Low Old Shield, one of many fortified farmhouses built during the days of the Border raids.

Tourism was given a boost in the 1840s when the North Staffordshire Railway opened its line through the Churnet Valley.

In this view we are looking north-west up London Road towards the Queens Head in the distance, beyond the junction with East Street.

We look north-westwards up The Street to the Coach and Horses Hotel (left centre), where the Victorian landlord was James Ingram. Charmouth House is further up the hill (centre).

It is now shorter than we see it here, as its extremities were swept away by the ferocity of the North Sea.

A view looking north along the High Street.

This is the main automotive route north from the city centre yet pedestrians appear happy to saunter UP the road rather than across it!

All to the left on the north bank, apart from the grand pedimented and columned Fishmongers Hall of 1831 near the bridge, has now gone.

This seven-arched road bridge was built in 1775 to carry the Great North Road over the river. It replaced earlier crossings dating from 1190.

In this splendidly evocative view from the High Street/St Peter's Street/Dame Alice Street junction, the photographer looks north along the Broadway towards the leafy De Parys Avenue, past the policeman

In this photograph we head north-east out of Market Square along Cambridge Street, once known as Bakers Lane, a road that haas seen much change since the 1950s.

North Street 1899 This view was captured from just outside the old Half Moon Hotel, later to become the Urban District Council Offices.

The Greedon Estate is situated on the north west side of the Seagrave Road. This is a particularly uninspiring view, but again it is a view so typical of peripheral village estates.