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Of Seaham, Byron wrote: 'Upon this dreary coast we have nothing but county meetings and shipwrecks; and I have this day dined upon fish, which probably dined upon the crews of several colliers lost in

These old stone cottages lie on the approach to Skelton Castle, and the wide gateway to the left beyond them is the start of the driveway up to the castle.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

The upper front storey of the Corn Exchange houses the Town Council's chamber and offices.

The Angel Hotel, an old coaching inn, can be seen on the left, and Collier's hardware store stands beside the bridge.

The Twyn itself was threatened by Glamorgan County Council's plans for road widening – a project that would have resulted in the loss of a large section of the square.

There are plenty of horse-drawn carts in this view looking east. Maplesden is still running his printing works at No 1 - although it is no longer a post office - and at No 5 Gatland Bros.

Ely Cathedral, which can be seen from up to twenty miles away on a clear day, is one of the most stirring sights in Fenland.

The impressive roof is the first example of rib vaulting in Europe.

Situated at the north east of Loch Awe, Kilchurn is a 15th-century tower built by Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy.

On the extreme left is D H Corneby, baker and confectioner. Further on is T C Baker, watch and clock repairer.

The Bear Hotel on the left has an early 19th-century stucco front; further on are the Chapel Arches.

The picturesque village is situated on a minor east-west road, rising up from the reservoir past Sir James Pennethorne's hall, which took some twenty years to complete, the medieval parish church and

The buildings on the left of picture No 40722 have now been replaced by a new Swan Tap, and the Swan is advertising its garage.

In this later view, we can see the Guildhall on the left side of the riverbank. As well as an underground passage opening right onto the water's edge, the Guildhall has two secret rooms.

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.

Further down Tanner's Hill, the lane becomes Old School Lane; this view looks north past these pairs of tile-hung former estate cottages, which are all now in private hands and extended by a bay at

We are a little further north than view C105008; we can see the BP petrol pumps of Overton's Garage with the parade of shops beyond the Crossways.

This view shows one of Salter's pleaseure steamers, the 'Henley', having just passed through Burford Bridge heading upstream towards Oxford.

The lad may be returning from the castle, which could be approached on this road at that time. The four houses on the right, built in 1817, are now private residences.

The bus advertising E A Beveridge & Co and the cars are of an earlier vintage, but the buildings still look much the same.

The spire of St Alban`s Church, demolished in 1973, is just visible to the right of the Ashworth statue (left).

In the distance is a corn-grinding post mill (centre left), possibly owned at this time by a Mr Mallett, whose worry was that the building of houses nearby would keep the wind from the mill's sails