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A view of Lyme on a clear summer's day in the 1950s, with the conical clifftop of Golden Cap in the distance.

The collection included paintings of the Spanish and Italian Schools, and the British were represented by artists such as Gainsborough.

Margate received its Charter of Incorporation in 1857.

Victorian Glasgow may have been a parvenu compared with Edinburgh, with its ancient history as Scotland's capital and its 18th-century reputation as the Athens of the North, but Glasgow's unparalleled

The second was a 12th-century Norman church - the shaft of a Norman piscina remains in the Lady Chapel - and the third church, built in the 13th cen- tury in Early English style, was restored in

To go to Styal now, it takes some imagination to see this place as a prime example of cutting edge technology, but 200 years ago this was the case.

St James' Church Kirk is a place of worship of very ancient origin.

This is the east end of the chancel and side chapels of the parish church of St Michael the Archangel.

Royston is another former colliery town north of Barnsley.

Situated six miles south-east of Mold, Caergwrle is a small castle comprising the ruins of three round towers and a polygonal turret; it was captured and destroyed in 1282.

The village, which in parochial terms was originally bracketed together with Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt, which share the mother church of St Wilfred, lies some eight miles to the south

The spacious northern end of the High Street, with its central water garden and carefully tended flowerbeds, marks the area where the market hall stood until 1853.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

The lake is part of the moat surrounding the timber-framed manor house, once the home of the de Southchurch family.

Archaeological discoveries over the last couple of years may push the date of the area's habitation back further.

Harrogate is one of the oldest of England's spa towns: its mineral springs were discovered in the 16th century.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Frith's photographers visited Aldeburgh's High Street over a period of sixty years; their photographs, arranged here in chronological order, are a potent record of changing times, the advance of the

Hothfield Place was the seat of the Tufton family, but was pulled down after the Second World War.

At the beginning of the 19th century, a number of new streets were built following the grid pattern of the mediaeval town.

The parish church of St Peter, which dates from before 1222, was built on the site of part of the old St John's Chapel at the side of the Roman Akeman Street.

Another of the small iron-working hamlets in the valley of the Tilling Bourne, Friday Street probably derives its name from the Scandinavian goddess Frigga; it still enjoys its peaceful setting above a

The earliest castle here is thought to have been built by Bernard de Baliol; it consisted of a ringwork with wooden palisading protected by an outer ditch defence.

The hotel was one of the landmarks of Nottingham for centuries and it is a matter of conjecture how it came by its unusual name.