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In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

During the early part of the 17th century, busts began to take the place of effigies; the county's earliest bust can be found here, on the memorial to Sir Thomas Cornwallis, one-time governor

In the year of Queen Victoria's passing, these fashionably-clad Edwardians take the air along the mile-long greensward of The Leas on top of the cliff, and against the backdrop of these smart Victorian

This is a view beloved of generations of artists and photographers. The church of St Mary the Virgin was built in the 14th century.

Accrington was originally a chapelry of Altham. The chapel was built in 1763; it had no tower, and was considerably shorter.

The imposing red sandstone ruins of the keep of Brougham Castle watch over the River Eamont.

A Morris 8 Series E waits patiently outside the church of All Saints in the village of Whitwell, which, with Bendish, forms the parish of St Paul's Walden.

This charming lane near the church has a concentration of thatched cottages. Further along is Jubilee Barn, the original tithe barn of the village.

To the south of the harbour stood the power stations and gas works, the main users of coal, which represented over half of the port's total commodities by the end of the 1950s.

Old Swinford is a suburb of Stourbridge today, which represents a reversal of fortune: the Domesday Book (1086) recorded Stourbridge as part of the manor of 'Suineford'.

Robert Clive, Clive of India, was born in 1725.

To the right of Romsey's Corn Exchange, built in 1864, is a glimpse of Romsey Abbey, which until the mid-16th century was home to a Benedictine order of nuns.

All Saints' church on the left is a wonderful example of how churches can continue to be houses of worship, while changing their role slightly to suit modern demands.

Pollarded lime trees line part of the High Street of this village, which can justifiably claim to be one of Kent's prettiest; it duly attracts hordes of visitors during the summer season.

Here we see a quiet corner of Kenilworth.

The long-running TV comedy, 'Last of the Summer Wine', had not put Holmfirth on the tourist map when this photograph of the main square was taken.

Seen from its modern bypass on the A168 trunk road south of Thirsk, Topcliffe looks like a modern village of new housing estates.

Lastingham is fewer than seven miles northwest of Pickering. In AD654 St Cedd, the brother of St Chad, built a monastery here, where St Chad died of the yellow plague in AD664.

One of the early buildings constructed as part of Ebenezer Howard's vision of a garden city at Letchworth, this fantastic structure was erected in 1906-7 by the architect Coulishaw, and was intended

Up the hill is an early example of a covered shopping area - the Butterwalk, parts of which were known as piazzas.

In the year of Queen Victoria's passing, these fashionably-clad holiday-makers take the air along the mile-long greensward of The Leas on top of the cliff, and against the backdrop of smart Victorian

Wooburn Green, in the valley of the River Wye, has a delightful green, and, to the south, the site of a moated palace of the medieval bishops of Lincoln.

LYNMOUTH, set on the rocky north coast of Devon, was 'discovered' in 1812 by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who stayed here with Harriet Westbrook, his first wife.

In 1955 the College of Art and Technology was soon to be uplifted to the status of a Polytechnic.