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The King's Road was famous for trendy clothes and antique shops; in the 1960s Minis and Triumph Herald convertibles cruised up and down, the pavements thronged with peacock-gaudy young men and women.

It is rather surprising that most of the buildings in the shot have survived, although generally in a down-graded form. The bushes on the right have gone, to be replaced by shops.

The three pointed gables to its left belong to the 1824 warehouses in which guano, flax and cotton were stored (it was pulled down in 1965).

It was a co-educational school until the Girls' County School was built further down Buttrills Road.

The centre is overlooked by the 1100ft- high Witton Fell, and on the green is a huge boulder brought down by 20 horses in 1859.

We are looking down from the keep of Clitheroe Castle to the town below.

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

This is now an extremely busy road, and there is a host of traffic lights where five roads meet at the bottom of Lindum Hill, just about where the car is coming down the road.

Here we are reminded that before the building of the bus station in Merrywalks, buses waited at several locations in the town.

gained a reputation for sorcery and evil deeds.Those who know the area treat these superstitious tales with a pinch of salt, but they do not deny that the quick changes in weather, which bring down

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.

She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes.

This view looks south down the main street towards the church of St Thomas and St Nicholas - we can see its 14th-century crossing tower (centre).

Bath Lane off East Street, originally called Bathing House Lane, is so named because it used to lead down to a bathing house that was located by the side of the creek.

The film 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills was filmed in and around Downham village.

The church closed down in 1904, and was demolished in 1906.

The view shows the centre of Anstey, as the road drops down from the heights of Bradgate Park, enclosed out of Charnwood Forest c1200 as a hunting park.

The camera looks east down the High Street, which opens onto Church Gate and Derby Road. Kegworth's origins lay in its medieval weekly market and annual fair.

The camera looks at the mundane, suburban face of the village as Woodgate drops down to Cross Green.

The two Llanwenarths were joined by a rope ferry, which closed down in 1951. From the churchyard there is a magnificent view of the Blorenge mountain.

The canal's tub-boats were fitted with wheels so that they could travel up or down the inclines by means of cables; it was a method that saved an absolute fortune on building locks, and represented

The furniture legacy from this period can be found mainly in the western part of town: many are relatively small two-storey structures up to 100 feet long, and date mostly from the first two decades

A hundred years after this photograph was taken, there appears to have been little change to the overall shape of the town, for Ilkley today retains the charm of the Wharfe Valley and the splendour of