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The approach to the station is a bridge over the River Irwell. At the centre bottom of our picture is Cromwell's statue, by Matthew Noble.

By 1901 Rye had long been surpassed as a port, though there were a number of lute-sterned trawlers based here, and cargoes arrived here for transfer into lighters that traded up the Rother as far

Pleasure prevails, with the Riverside Café and an amusement arcade next to the river. The commodious launch Amo is waiting to fill up with tourists for a river cruise.

This view shows the Monnow Gate that stands on the bridge of the same name to the left.

The popularity of Box Hill, once called the White Hill from its chalk bluff and affording a splendid view across the Weald from its summit of just over 600ft, reached an apogee during the late Victorian

Much of the woodwork was commissioned in 1938 from Robert Thompson from Kilburn, and his mouse trademark can be found on the pews and pulpit. The building to the right is the old hearse house.

It is three years after No 41278, and little has changed; the memorial is still a year away. On the left is the North Hunts Constitutional Club, now the offices of Ewing Reeson, photographer.

In the south, huge pits were dug for china clay, an industry that continues today, and all over the moor granite was quarried for building stone.

Abridge was always well-supplied with pubs and tea-rooms. Here we see The Blue Boar with its fine Tuscan porch (left), and opposite, The Retreat (now the post office).

The Blue Boar, the building on the left with the two columns, is mid 19th- century, and was probably built to sell the products of the Anchor Brewery, which became the Abridge Brewery and

From the bridge it was once possible to see a windmill built on a high bluff of rock above the river.

By 1958 cheap Italian and Japanese textiles were being dumped on the market and countries like Canada and the US had placed a tariff on British cloth.

The busy A59 road now divides Gisburn, but it still has its cobbled forecourts and white cottages in the main street. Here we will find the Ribblesdale Arms.

St John's Bridge is on the left. The Avon Mill at this time was occupied by Hugh Dryden & Co Ltd, who sold antiques and works of art here until the late 1970s.

Belfast had a very effective body managing and improving its harbour long before it had a council able to provide roads, drainage and oversee housing.

The local population in the Middle Ages made a living from agriculture, fishing, boat-building, and ferrying traffic up and down the river.

Prize money of 300 guineas was announced for a competition in 1866 to design and lay out an area for 'the delight and pleasure of the public'.

It was once Shergold's grocery, and still has beautiful tiles on the walls.

AND SO, with the new millennium, to modern times. It cannot be claimed that Stafford celebrated the event with much originality or enthusiasm.

It was built by Sir William Stradling during the reign of Edward III, and remodelled during the Tudor period. There are two wards, the outer defended by a gatehouse with a portcullis.

This had already been the capital of the Trinovantes, the tribe whose territory covered Essex and east Suffolk.

The horse-drawn trams were a long-established feature of the city, and the system was still being extended up the Cregagh and Anderstown Roads.

The estate dates to the early 13th century, and was owned by William de Polesdene. It was later occupied by Thomas Slyfield, and was granted to John Norbury in 1470.

The new mills and factories not only changed the skyline of Carlisle: they had a radical impact upon the very nature of the city.