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The roofs of the nave and south aisle are so low that a first glance at St Michael's often leaves visitors thinking that the building is semi-derelict.

A fishing village and yachting centre located on a creek of Chichester Harbour. A straight and wide road leading to the quay creates an impression of past importance.

Bowman's Terrace was one of the earliest, claiming space hard by the sea and near the town.

LOOKING TO the future, a lot depends on the fortune of the nation and its place in the world.

St Michael's Church, Pitsea Built in a prominent position on the top of a small hill, St Michael's Church overlooks the peninsula formed by creeks running into the river and the parish of Pitsea, formerly

When the Second World War broke out she was exempt from military service because she worked in a bank, taking the place of men who had enlisted.

The home of Yorkshire CCC.

Here we see the beginnings of a familiar retail pattern: multinationals are taking over the high street. On the left is Home & Colonial, which by this date had several hundred branches.

Full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

His model village provided all the essential living amenities, and for recreation he provided a spacious park on the opposite side of the river and canal.

Batley's prosperity came from the process of breaking down and reweaving woollen cloth from waste rags. The raw material came from as far afield as Berlin and Rotterdam.

It was here at this fen-edge settlement that William the Conqueror and Geoffrey de Manderville made their defensive stand for the island of Ely.

In the ten years or so prior to the Great War, golf went through a boom with a large number of courses opening throughout the UK.

Just six miles from the Borde, the village of Ford sits on gently rising ground on the right bank of the Till.

Consisting of little more than one long street running east to west, Glanton enjoyed a reputation for the healing properties of the water from the Keppin or Keppie Well situated behind the old school

Look at the car to the far right of the line: it is remarkable how old-fashioned some cars still being driven in the 1960s now look.

A view of Sherborne School Courts showing the former Abbot's house and kitchen. The monastic kitchen dates from the end of the 15th century and its chimney is seen here.

Here we see a section of the canal at Greenberfield Locks, just before it enters the town. This is the highest point that the canal reaches.

The land was previously part of the Greenhead Hall estate. The new park boasted two lakes, one of which is now a rose garden.

We are north of the junction with West End.

This is downstream beyond the 1813 Ouse bridge to the Embankment area, with a view of the parks and gardens mostly laid out during Joshua Hawkins's mayoralty in the 1880s.

The church, one of the largest in Suffolk, is not a typical Suffolk wool church, and has an elegant lead spire.

On the left we can see Baker's clock, near to their shop; they were well-known clock and watch makers.

Here we see a Wallasey tram on the crowded single track part of the street.