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This delightful picture reminds us of what was lost with the development of Runcorn.

What a pleasure it must have been to walk down the middle of the street without the worry of a constant stream of traffic.

Within fifteen years of this photo, the roadway had been made into a proper bridge, and there had been an infilling of bungalows on the left- hand side.

West Bay is the small port of the neighbouring town of Bridport.The River Brit, which gives the larger town its name, is held back by a series of sluices and released at low tide.

A similar view to No 43714, above, and taken five years later shows cows grazing in the Meadows, a cowshed in the shadow of the Grammar School (far right) and an even better view of the upper part of

This is a magnificent view of the semi-ruinous church of St Thomas, designed to be a big proud church, but probably never finished.

Henfield is a long, straggling village a mile or so to the east of the River Adur.

Newly opened in November 1965, the school stands in Gainsborough Road at the southern end of the town, and takes its name from the ancient stretch of woodland opposite its gates.

In a manner typical of this coastline, the soft red sandstone has been blasted into grotesque shapes by the constant battering of wind and wave. Note the winch alongside the nearest boat.

Originally it was a few fishermen's huts at the end of a lane south of Prittlewell. Here we see the central beach in the last years of the 19th century.

The elegant Georgian house on the right of the road has been converted to offices.To the right of it is the entrance to Botley Mills, an 18th-century mill complex, which is mentioned in the Domesday

This view looks across the Main Bay from the pier, with two Thames sailing barges in the centre of the picture. Note the line of bathing machines under the cliffs.

Ellesmere Port was the focal point for much of the canal activity in Cheshire.

The Gas Service building on the right housed the offices and showroom of Redditch Gas Company at the time of this photograph.

The Lydstep caverns are only accessible at low tide, with the exception of the Smuggler's Cave, which was probably so named because of the high incidence of smuggling along the rocky

A boy stands on the old slipway into the sluice. At high tide the basin would fill; it was then emptied through an opening at the other end, keeping the harbour free of silt.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

Warringtonians would probably describe this as Market Gate, but Frith's view records the original concept of 1908 to create four matching corners, 'a spacious circus, perfectly symmetrical in shape with

This picture is wonderfully typical of Brecon. It shows the River Llynfell emerging at the base of the cave.

The small hamlet of Swinton, west of Malton on the B1257, above the wide valley of the River Rye, was completely deserted when the Frith photographer called on a summer's day.

Bondgate gets its name from the area of the town where the bishop of Durham's bond tenants once lived; it was once a separate manor from Darlington.

Between Canterbury and the sea, and built on a section of the Roman road which ran from Dover to Richborough, Eastry was once the site of a palace of the Kings of Kent, who divided their realm into 'lathes

It was the scene of the first action of the barons against Edward II, whose favourite Piers Gaveston held Scarborough at the time; despite surrendering, Gaveston was seized by the Earl of Warwick and summarily

The thatcher's craft is one of the staple industries of broads villages. This photograph shows reeds growing at the edge of a broad, with the cut stalks stacked by the cottage.