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William Ransom, born in 1826 in the house at the north end of Bancroft, studied at Isaac Brown's Quaker Academy at the Triangle, Hitchin.

Much of Borth consists of a single street with houses on both sides that gradually spread between the railway station at the north end of the village to a group of fishermen's houses built in the lee of

This picture was taken eastwards from the north side of East Street, from Mrs Alice E Gale's musical instrument emporium and fancy repository on the corner with Barrack Street (left).

This view is from the Buckinghamshire bank, looking north from the A4 Bath Road immediately east of the bridge.

Tall yew hedges grow along the north and west paths, creating its distinctive look.

Turton Tower lies four miles south of Darwen, and four miles north-east of Bolton.The villages of Turton and Turton Bottoms are next to the Tower.Turton Tower is basically two buildings, a pele

The nave, and the north aisle with its cat-slide roof, were restored in 1891, but are originally of the 15th century. The vicar in 1906 was the Rev Arthur Pannell.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

Judgement, the south porch of Lincoln Cathedral led into the richly carved Angel Choir, the east arm of the cathedral built for St Hugh's shrine; it was probably used by pilgrims, who would leave by the north

On the north side of St Paul's Square is the old corn exchange, an uncompromising Victorian building whose foundation stone was laid in October 1872.

This view is from Harnham Hill, looking north eastwards across the Avon and an area of farmland which is just beginning to become built-up as the suburb of Harnham.

Holy Trinity is in North Tidworth, the centre of the civilian area. A small 13th-century building, Holy Trinity is rather hidden away, but it is the village's jewel.

The market town of Bedale is a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

The Square or old Market Place of Elham adjoins the church yard on the north side, and a weekly market was held here until the 18th century.

It is an attractive open area, and this view looks north past the pond across Bushey Road, with the row of elms on the right.

Bracing is a good word to describe the north and east winds that frequently blow into the coast here, but the sand beaches are superb compensation.

This view looks to the north end of Silver Street and its junction with the High Street, the main Sleaford to Skegness Road.

Moving north, just beyond the Handley Memorial, and heading for the Market Place, we see buildings mostly from the late 18th- and 19th-century phase of Sleaford's prosperity, with the castellated house

Further north-east along the High Street, Frith's photographer now looks back in the Clapham Common direction past Cato Road (left).

Church Town in the parish of North Meols had long had a tradition of sea-bathing, associated with a couple of local festivals known as Big and Little Bathing Sundays, when the natives took to the waters

At the bottom end of the High Street is The Vale, a park formally opened in 1937 in fields between the now vanished London and North Western Railway station (demolished in 1960) and the gas works, also

Pevsner in The Buildings of England says of Caldy: 'Cheshire is something of a Surrey of the North, but Surrey has nothing to compare with this'.

We are looking north along Wallasey Village, with the bollards at the top of Leasowe Road visible on the left. The cobbled street to the immediate left, just beyond the chemists, is Lycette Road.

In 1931, the widow of Stafford Bourne (the son of one of the founders of Bourne & Hollingsworth's store in London) sold Garston Manor to Benskins the brewers, who transferred it to the North West Metropolitan