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Built from the bricks for which the town is famous, it cost £13,000, of which the Corporation borrowed £10,000.

Protected by the enclosing reef of Walney Island, Barrow flourished as a major shipbuilding centre in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Barrow boys, porters and carters do their best to earn a few shillings. Note the large pair of spectacles above the optician's shop.

Some 60 years earlier George Borrow had stayed here on his tour through 'Wild Wales'; here he drank 'the finest glass of ale he had ever tasted in his life'.

Powerstock is a good holiday place for the archaeologist, for apart from the hillfort, there are prehistoric barrows, Roman roads and Saxon settlements nearby.

Some 60 years earlier George Borrow had stayed here on his tour through 'Wild Wales'; here he drank 'the finest glass of ale he had ever tasted in his life'.

Michael Palladino used to go round the town with his ice-cream barrow and charged a penny for a wafer and just a halfpenny for a cup.

A walk along the downlands around Long Bredy shows this to be a very old landscape, with barrows and monoliths from prehistory and ridge paths from more recent times.

It is possible that bodies were left here on funerary platforms - in the watchful presence of priests - to decompose, before a skeletal burial was carried out later in one of the many long barrows that

It was immortalised by George Borrow, who enjoyed the most sumptuous breakfast of his life here in 1854 during a tour which he recorded in Wild Wales: `a noble breakfast, such indeed as I might have read

For a very long time Whitby did not have such a thing as a fish shop, as the fishermen themselves supplied their wives, and most locals bought their fish from Jack Gash and his barrow

Barrow has an excellent public library, and the building has the same appearance today. It is dated 1915, and it replaced the original library, which was housed in the Town Hall.

Many ships have been constructed in Barrow. This crane is still in use, and can be seen from many parts of the town. Here, it is being used in the fitting out of the Oronsay in Buccleuch Dock.

Nearby is one of the smallest Neolithic long barrows in Sussex. In the picture the Stores has a sign offering 'Morning coffee and light refreshments,Teas'.

knick-knacks; family parties, encamped with umbrellas and novels; eager children, sprawling babies and their nurses, and scores of adventurous youngsters seriously labouring in the sand with spade and wheel-barrow

Templand is the farm to the upper right in this view, which was taken from Wart Barrow. Lane End is the crossroads in the centre of the picture.

It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow. Its unusual name comes from the wife of its 17th-century owner.

It belongs to the Neolithic period, and is a fine example of a long barrow. Its unusual name comes from the wife of its 17th-century owner.

Houses for the dockyard workers can be seen to the right on the Barrow shore.

There is a fine Neolithic long barrow on Telegraph Hill, which is 534 feet high. The Norman church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1849, with a timber bell turret and a shingled spire.

It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from one of the same name in Venice.

Generally known as Hetty Pegler's Tump, named after a local landowner (Tump being a Cotswold word to indicate a small hill or mound), this Neolithic long barrow a mile to the north of Uley

It borrows the idea of the covered bridge from the one of the same name in Venice.

Barrow Hill runs off to the left with modern houses. Just a mile or so up-river, Upper Clatford has the same appeal.