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The top part of the cross was discovered in the 19th century at Tresmarrow Farm, and was put in the town museum.

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Teffont, 10 miles west of Salisbury, is the combination of the villages of Teffont Evias and Teffont Magna; both have small churches maintained and still in use by the whole combined parish of

The reasoning behind the construction of the Dudley and Stourbridge Canals was for the transportation of coal from pits around Dudley to the glass works at Stourbridge, and for the export of coals

In this picture things have quietened down a little, and the policeman on point duty has only one waggon and several horse-trams and horse-drawn omnibuses to dodge.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

The church of St Andrew and the rear of the buildings in St Mary's Street sit on the spur of land surrounded by the River Avon which attracted the Saxon settlers.

Here we see the white-washed walls of the Willington Hotel. Willington is today overshadowed by the massive cooling towers of the huge power station to the east of the village.

The church of St Edward the Confessor contains a medieval effigy of a crusader monk, which was found in the wall of nearby Netley Castle and probably came from Netley Abbey.

This is an old village, but there are plenty of older habitations nearby: this part of Dorset boasts an impressive collection of earthworks, burial barrows, ancient ridge paths and strip lynchets.

An anonymous offer of £20,000 had been received, which would enable part of the land to be bought for the National Trust.

The tenements could only expand lengthways along their own ‘backsides’, and most buildings had a jumble of outhouses, barns and sheds at the rear.

The detailing is borrowed from the eight blank panels in the Medici chapel in Florence; on these panels are carved the names of the town's dead of the First World War.

Honest Tom Steele's monument is near the entrance of the cemetery. Many of the tombs carry shamrock, Irish harp and wolfhound motifs, indicative of the Young Ireland Movement.

Here we see another view of the Wye valley. Again, trees and attractive small fields give a vivid impression of the glorious nature of the Derbyshire Peak District.

Rossall Hall, Peter Hesketh's ancestral home, became Rossall School on 22 August 1844.

Here we have a closer view of the quiet main street; note the sign of the Golden Cocker Café by the street lamp.

We can see from the size of the bus queues that private car ownership was still something of a novelty. In 1954, sales of new cars in the UK totalled 394,362, with just 4660 imported cars.

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage.

As the name of the colliery would indicate this pit is actually in the Ely Valley and at the time of the Frith photograph would be one of the few still in full production.

The back of the Crown Inn can just be seen in the centre, where Station Road becomes Hinckley Road, curving south past the parish church, and on to Nailstone and Market Bosworth.

The present church of St Leonard was begun in 1650 but has continued to be altered, with Gothic style windows in 1843, the raising of the roof and the addition of a north aisle in the 1860s.

Frith's photographer was looking west away from the Council House, with Long Row on the right.

Opened in 1928, it replaced a previous Fortune of War (now a printer's on the Billericay road), which had itself been founded, supposedly, by a soldier returning from the Napoleonic Wars.