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The elegant 75-foot spire of Christ Church is prominent in the landscape; the old ironworks and spoil tips are behind it. The terraces of Newtown are to the right.

There were ten locks at the end of the Bridgewater Canal linking it with the docks below; figures for 1883 show that in that year alone 60,300 craft passed up and down.

Sited on a Bronze Age tumulus, the Beacon was built in Elizabethan times and was used at the time of the Armada to warn of the Spanish threat.

To the south of the village, brick making has been an important local industry.

Referred to locally as the `new bridge`, it was opened by Prince Charles the Prince of Wales on 5 June 1996; it was built by a Franco-British consortium.

At an elevation of 747ft, Penistone always suffers with the weather, particularly in the ferocious winters of 1933, 1947 and 1963.

The headquarters of Somerset County Cricket Club, founded in 1875, lie on the south bank of the River Tone; although the grandstands are much changed, the arched one still in essence survives.

The photographer is looking north-west downhill across the Mells Stream bridge to the village, an attractive cluster of stone houses with many thatched roofs.

The original unveiling date in May 1926 had to be postponed because of the General Strike. There had been a Boer War memorial on this site before this, but it was moved to Avenham Park.

One mile inland is the church of St Mary, which includes the nave of the Augustinian priory founded here in 1119 by Walter de Gant.

This beautiful Elizabethan house is four hundred years old, and is still owned by the descendants of Sir Henry Griffith, who designed and built it.

An Eiffel Tower at New Brighton was part of the original dream of James Atherton as he planned his new holiday resort. It was started in 1896 and opened in 1898.

Apart from the castle, this is the highest part of Clitheroe, 300ft above sea level.

This is a lovely full frontal view of Manchester Town Hall as it was over a century ago. The Albert Memorial in the middle of our photograph has a elaborate history, which is often told wrongly.

The station is on the left, but is concealed by the distant shops.

Most of the buildings on the right have since been rebuilt, while on the left all up to the three-storey brick building with the parapet, now the Abbey National, have also gone (and some beyond).

The photographer has now moved west down the High Street, a superb long and wide street lined by timber-framed and brick houses - one of the best historic townscapes in Buckinghamshire.

South-east of Coleshill, Seer Green was a small village that became a separate parish in 1847.

Gregory Gregory, a bachelor, was probably responsible for as much of the design as his architects, Anthony Salvin and later William Burn, as it rose slowly throughout the 1830s and 1840s.

Here in what was thought to be the largest village in the Fylde we have a good example of a Fylde cruck-built thatched homestead, of which very few remain.

The tombstone of a cavalry rider and a replica of a parade helmet are what visitors come from far away to see. The original helmet, found by the river Ribble in 1796, is in the British Museum.

On the left, Shell and Exide petrol pumps, a sign for Park Drive cigarettes, and new-style windows fitted into dwellings indicate progress.

The small village of Leeds is dominated by the presence of its large romantic castle. The Castle is Norman, but there was an earlier Saxon castle on the site.

This delightful rambling village acquired its name from the Saxon king Ehta, or Otha's settlement. But nearby Oldbury Hill has traces of Neanderthal hunters and an Iron Age fort on its slopes.