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Today Currys trades from an edge-of-town superstore in St Georges.

Facing the King's Head is the guildhall of St James's Guild; it was built c1495, and has a jettied upper storey. In the 18th century it was used as a poorhouse.

In 1960 it catered for dinghy sailors, swimmers, paddlers and canoeists, with plenty of room for all.

Looking at the bandstand from the beach, the reason for its popular name of 'the bird cage' is obvious.

Only two of these cottages survived recent road improvements. They include the one on the left and the middle thatched dwelling on the right.

Bude sea lock is still in use today, although the rest of the canal was abandoned in 1896. However, the barge section was retained as a water channel.

Designed and built by George Stephenson, Stockton and Darlington No 1, 'Locomotion', achieved a speed of 15mph when he hauled the 34-wagon inaugural train from Shildon to Stockton on 27 September 1825.

It is fair weather, and a ketch is making good progress under sail as she passes between the rocks of the Longships Lighthouse and Land's End.

Little can be usefully gleaned from the remains shown here, but it is known that Dorchester was a centre for a school of mosaicists in the 3rd and 4th centuries.

Two grim buildings from the last decade of the nineteenth century.

This was the period that saw the beginning of the end for the town - in 1959 the last steel works closed, followed in 1987 by the last iron works.

Café, jeweller, dry cleaners and the regional newspaper office make strange bedfellows under the roof of the old Market House.

One of the most famous buildings in Chester, the God's Provident House. The house was originally built in 1652 and rebuilt in 1862.

A view from the harbour with the Sloop Inn at the centre of the picture and with Fish Street leading uphill to the right.

This lovely photograph shows a broad on the upper Bure, possibly South Walsham, showing water lilies which were common on many broads early in the 20th century.

The river near the new bridge now has rows of wooden houseboats moored along the right bank, where Wayford Farm has been developed into the Wayford Bridge Hotel.

The result was the removal of the bay windowed 1890s houses on the far right. Otherwise little has changed.

Ever since the arrival of the railway, Great Yarmouth has been a popular seaside resort, and whilst not the quiet getaway some might prefer, it was always a great pull for working class families from London

Looking north , we can see an electric tram and horse-drawn cart providing an interesting contrast of the old and the new.

The overwhelming view is always of the cathedral, which splendidly dominates all other structures.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, when these houses were built, the streets echoed to the hum of cloth looms.

Rearing out amid the stucco, the bright red brick and terra-cotta of Alfred Waterhouse's 1890 Metropole Hotel must have seemed remarkably intrusive when it was first built.

As usual, an exotic hybrid of Turkish-Oriental-Arabic style was selected.

In the distance is the tower of Harvey's Brewery.