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Victoria Square is in the centre of Widnes. The building on the left is the library; the Technical College is at the side of it.

The public house has long been a vital constituent of city life. Here customers could relax after the day's toil with a tankard of porter.

Although Queniborough is virtually a part of the outer edge of suburban Leicester, this photograph presents an almost chocolate-box view of the village.

The village of Muker, set toward the western end of the dale, dates back to 1274. After a chapel of ease was built here in 1580, the delightfully named Corpse Way gradually fell into disuse.

The canal in 1773 and the railway from 1847 brought huge trade and confidence -and pollution - to the small town of Bingley.

Leigh was a market town that prospered on coal, cotton, and silk.

The church of St Andrew was restored in 1885 and has a shingled broach spire.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat - his cycle is parked under the signpost.

Under the spreading chestnut trees of St Mary`s churchyard, and on the opposite side of the village street, the photographer`s activities generate much interest from a mixed audience of both children

St Peter's is a building of some antiquity, and this view of the rear of the parish church does not do justice to its clarity of line or the aesthetic appeal of its architecture.

The Great Western Railway cuts across the scene, with the ribbon development of Par Green on the far side to the right.

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

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

This is the east end of the chancel and side chapels of the parish church of St Michael the Archangel. These walls date from 1505, but the building becomes older as it rises to the west.

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. 'Church' is a Northumbrian word and 'Kirk' is Mercian; both words mean 'a place of worship'.

The home of the de Hoghton family, the house (which is still there today) was mainly built in the reign of Elizabeth I.

The centre of Heswall was originally much closer to the shoreline, probably in the area around Village Road and St Peter's Church, but the advent of Telegraph Road - the A540 - has moved the commercial

Undoubtedly Bedford's most famous son - if only because of his imprisonment as a result of religious intolerance - John Bunyan was born into a tinker's family and lived something of the high life before

Constructed of wrought iron and completed in 1879, the Severn Bridge was the longest tied-arch, bowstring truss bridge on the British railway network.

Part of the circular courtyard of the thirteenth-century castle; a favourite spot with Victorian visitors for a picnic. On the left can be seen the honeycomb internal stonework of one of the turrets.

Chamber and the Queen's Hall with its stunning panels of stained glass on its western side.

The Downs, like Horton and the common, were now part of London's Green Belt, and no further development would take place on them.