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Before the railway - the Quay station can be seen on the left - this area was quayside. Merchants have transacted their business here long before that.

This splendid building must have overawed the narrow Waring Street, which could only lay claim to such a pile because of its very long history as a place where business was to be done.

We can see the stone mullion windows and low doorways of this former almshouse, which was built under the will of Robert Napier in 1616.

This point - where Grace's Walk crosses Sandon Brook - has a ghost story attached to it: Lady Alice Mildmay (d1615), child-bride of Sir Henry, supposedly drowned herself in a pond here after he was unkind

In the background of this picture stands the Gas Works jetty. Pier Hill leads down to the sea front esplanade, with the Palace Hotel on the left.

Here we have a panoramic view of this industrial town. Note the congested, terraced housing typical of communities like this, which developed in the 19th century wherever industry took hold.

Its church disappeared from the cliffs into the ever-encroaching sea in the reign of Richard II. Another was built, and that too was a ruin for a number of years – it has since been restored.

It is named Lady Isabella in honour of Lady Isabella Hope, wife of Governor Hope. When this picture was taken, the mining company charged visitors 3d each to use the observation platform.

One of the oldest cargoes handled here was china clay from Cornwall destined for the Potteries.

South of the town, a long-redundant lightship lies on the slipway near Argent Street; its light was hauled up to the masthead on cables.

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs. St Leonard's church was built in 1895.

Prior to the development of the coastal resort at Colwyn Bay in Victorian times, the old village, lying to the east and just inland from the coast, was known merely as Colwyn.

'Hence Rhyl has become noted for the number of children that visit it, and these little ones find an inexhaustible fund of pleasure on its beach'.

This clearly shows the fine sweep of elegant buildings that lined Glentworth Bay and the hillside.

By the beginning of the 17th century those Englishmen who could afford it had taken up the craze for smoking tobacco in pipes made of clay.

Even in the 1960s, this part of Chorley was a one-way system to help ease the traffic problems. Today this area is pedestrianised, and the whole of Chorley centre seems to be a one-way system.

This view is taken from the east end of Embankment Gardens, where there was a matching urn to that at their west end.

He was curate here at one time, and used to preach in summer from the steps of a stone cross in the churchyard. Nearby is a large, redbrick building with towers, gables and terracotta panels.

In 1893, a study by a German sociologist found that six out of every seven working-class families in the mill towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire managed to save enough money to spend on a holiday.

His estate was confiscated by the Crown and later given to Margaret Tudor and her husband the Earl of Lennox. Their son married Mary, Queen of Scots.

The County Lunatic Asylum was built at Stone, three miles west of Aylesbury, in the early 1850s by the architects Thomas Wyatt and David Brandon.

This picture was probably taken soon after the end of the Second World War, judging by the Food Office sign on the right of the picture.

The building of Charles Church started in 1640 after Charles I gave permission for another parish to be created. Construction was suspended in the Civil War and completed in 1657.

The 120-foot tower of St James' dominates this view from the south-east. The church is notable for its 15th- century frontals, which are said to be the earliest set in the country.