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The two townships of Poulton-le-Fylde and Hambleton, linked by the bridge, were villages when the bridge was first built to serve agricultural communities.

Warehouses can be seen centre and on the right.

Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.

This mansion on Lyme's western cliffs, a mile beyond Ware, was the far point on Jane Austen's walk from Dorset into Devon in 1804.

The architect was Henry Kennedy of London, and the clock maker a local man, Mr Edward Edwards. The clock was erected in 1873 by the Marquis of Londonderry to celebrate his son's coming of age.

It was in 1789 that it was first given the name of Mary Arden's House, reflecting a local tradition that it had been the home of Shakespeare's mother before her marriage.

Unique in Hertfordshire, Standon parish church has a detached bell tower and a porch at the west end rather than on the south wall.

Fittleworth is a picturesque village of fine old houses, commons and fir woods. On the left of the picture is the Swan, a 14th-century coaching inn with a sign spanning the main road.

In the centre of the town is the 1728 brick-built Old Town Hall, with an open arcaded ground floor.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel built the famous Box Tunnel in 1841 as part of his ambitious Great Western Railway link between London's Paddington station and Bristol's Temple Meads.

In this beautiful photograph we see the ferry boat setting out across the broad, placid waters of Lake Windermere with two horse-drawn carts on board.

The university was an amalgamation of three earlier institutions, the Sheffield School of Medicine, the Firth College and the Technical School.

Since the 1820s Runcorn has been a centre for the chemical industry, with factories producing a wide range of products.

Carlisle and Sons' delivery van waits at the level crossing near Silecroft Station on the west coast route between Barrow and Workington, which opened to traffic in 1848.

This view, taken from Folly Bridge at the south end of St Aldate's Street, is of an earlier Eights Week with the Christchurch Meadow bank lined with the College Barges.

Half a mile from Lyndhurst and yet located within the parish lies the scattered hamlet of Emery Down, surrounded by peaceful forest glades and countryside.

Policemen directing traffic at the top of the High Street in this late 1920s photograph. The George Hotel, on the left, was demolished in the 1950s to facilitate a road-widening scheme.

The former Peninsula Barracks stand on the site of a medieval castle which was destroyed after the Civil War.

Under the right-hand section of the bridge, the swivelling mechanism can be seen. This opens the bridge to river traffic, now but a shadow of what it was.

Cheriton's original parish church is of considerable antiquity – it contains some stonework dating from the Norman conquest.

All is tranquil a couple of miles up-river of Barnstaple. The L&SW railway follows the river almost from the water- shed at Copplestone near Crediton, 30 miles away.

This small market town on the banks of the Sow was entitled to hold four annual fairs, mainly for the buying and selling of horses and cattle.

This view shows the foot of Mere Street, close by Diss Mere. On the left is West's Garage, offering Shell petrol and BP car batteries.

On the left, just down from the bank, is the Guildhall, which was built in 1839 on the site of the old market house.