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Heckmondwike lies just two miles from Dewsbury in the heart of the heavy woollen district; its speciality was blanket making.

Situated at the western end of the main street, All Saints Church has dormer windows with carved bargeboards and a diamond- shaped clock with a gilded crown.

Weymouth emerged from the Second World War to cater for a new generation of holidaymakers.

It would be a few years on before electric street-trams would link Headingley with Leeds city centre.

In March 1867 the Dutch ship 'Jonkheer Meester van der Wall van Putteshoek', carrying spices, sugar and coffee, was wrecked on Men-y-Grib during a storm.

This is St Andrews church and the ruins of the former nave.

The Arms of all the Viceroys from 1172 to 1922 are carved on the woodwork of the galleries and chancel, and are also pictured in stained glass in the gallery windows.

This is the cross roads of Storeton Road (out towards Storeton where the famous quarries are) and Woodchurch Road. The Half Way Hotel on the right is still there today.

The school was founded in 1632; its original buildings were supplemented in 1899 by those on the left, at a cost of more than three thousand pounds.

This fine chapel in Barn Street was erected in 1846 and enlarged in 1862 during the period when the town was experiencing the effects of the mining boom around Caradon just to the north

The old abbey just outside the village was founded in 1411 as a Benedictine hospital, but at the Dissolution it came into the hands of the Courtenay family who made it into a residence.

St Anne's church, consecrated in 1833, was built on a slope above the village near the site of the old church of the same name which had been attached to St Germans Priory.

In the background there is evidence of the railway that had arrived only two years before, with a line of trucks on the quay and carriages also visible.

The Liskeard to Callington road crosses the River Lynher here on one of Cornwall's many historic bridges. First recorded in 1478, its granite arches were widened on the far, downstream, side in 1874.

Begun as a blockhouse to protect Poole Harbour in the reign of Henry VIII, it was completed in 1547- 8. The remains of the blockhouse survive only as a basement room.

This later view of the pond is worth comparing to the earlier photograph of the same scene. Horses have given way to the ubiquitous motor car, and the village is catering for the car-borne tourist.

The Oxford Union consists of various buildings in the style of the Gothic Revival which date back to the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Dominating the Market Place is this dignified bronze statue, erected in 1861, of Sir John Franklin, the arctic explorer, born in Spilsby in 1786.

Midhurst, where every style of architecture can be seen in perfect harmony, is possibly the most beautiful of all the medieval market towns in Sussex.

In 1839 the estate was sold to developers, but it was 1911 before it became part of Birmingham.

In the 16th century John Leland described King's Norton as 'a pretty uplandish town in Worcs ... good plenty of wood and pasture ...' The woods and pasture have gone, but some greenery remains.

It is one of the finest examples of its type.

Look at the depressing differences in the first building on the left, which has gained a coat of cement render and lost its original windows.

The foundation stone of the Tower was laid by Sir Matthew White-Ridley MP on 25 September 1891, and by April 1893 the metal construction had reached 168 feet.