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Pedestrians could walk down the middle of the street with impunity when this mid-morning photograph was taken just before the First World War.

It narrowly escaped demolition in the early part of the 19th century.

They are good places for a stroll if the depths of the old hunting forest are too daunting. From this one there are fine views over the town.

Marsden has good sands, and is well known for the grotto on the cliff, which also includes a restaurant and a haunted pub.

This low tide view shows the rocky promontory of Pedn Olva that lies between Porthminster Beach and the foreshore up to West Pier.

Sussex Street, running between Sidney and Hobson Streets, was redeveloped in the 1930s and finished off with these elegant colonnades.

The practice of parking a bicycle by leaning it on one pedal against the kerb is rarely seen these days.

Viewed from North Load Street, Glastonbury's Market Cross was built in 1846 on the site of a medieval covered cross and fountain.

The bill for the original construction of the dam was £945.

This view north towards Forest Hill Station shows the junction with Derby Hill as it was before the church on the left gave way to the Heron House office block.

The withdrawal of container traffic spelt the end for Manchester, and by the early 1980s the docks had been flattened in readiness for redevelopment, both for residential and leisure purposes.

Whirlow Brook House was formerly the home of Sir Walter Benton Jones. In 1946 a joint effort by the Town Trust and the J G Graves Charitable Trust secured the grounds for use as a public park.

Opened to passenger traffic in July 1873, on the Bollington/ Marple route, it was rebuilt in 1960. Its reopening was timed to coincide with the closure of the town's other station at Hibel Road.

Kendal Grammar School sits alongside the banks of the River Kent.

Until the 1950s, the wall surrounding Newell House, at the bottom of Greenhill opposite the Crown Hotel, was an accident blackspot and had to be demolished, providing the grassy verge we know today

Biddulph Grange stands amid the magnificent gardens laid out by one of the great 19th century horticulturists, James Bateman.

Like Westbury, this is the second horse on this site just outside Pewsey. Volunteers from the local fire brigade cut it in 1937 to commemorate the coronation of King George VI.

The Dropping Well is a petrifying well, similar to those at Matlock Bath in Derbyshire, where the limestone content of the spring water solidifies objects that fall into it.

In the distance is the tower of St Mary's, founded shortly after the Norman Conquest but almost totally rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries thanks to endowments from local salt merchants.

The path to the falls goes up from Buttermere village; the falls - in fact a series of cascades - are hidden in a tree-lined gorge.

During the late seventeenth century Greenock's trade in herrings with France and the Baltic required a fleet of over 300 boats. The town motto was 'Let herring swim that trade maintain'.

It was built for the Catholic 15th Duke of Norfolk between 1884 and 1910.

Tragically the left hand side of the road was demolished in the 1960s and replaced by appaling flat-roofed buildings.

The gatehouse of Skipton Castle, with its twin turrets.