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This well-known early pier was engineered by Captain Samuel Brown, who had designed a smaller but similar structure, which opened at Leith near Edinburgh in 1821.

Winforton has been described as a typical 'farm village' and this building would once have been the home of a very well-to-do farmer.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

The Hand-in-Hand Fire and Life Insurance Society building stands at the junction of these two streets close by Blackfriars Bridge.

Pownall Bridge over the River Bollin carries the public footpath that runs from Wilmslow along the river bank to Styal.

The nearest church is at Widecombe, which meant a long walk for worshippers and a mighty task for coffin bearers.

The town grew up astride what was the most important road in medieval England, that between London and Chester, at that time the principal port for Ireland.

A horse-drawn bus advertising Sunlight Soap and Nestle's Milk passes round Parliament Square, which in the pre-car age did not yet have a roundabout.

Thomas Telford's stately bridge over the Severn was completed in 1801, a delightful mixture of stone and cast iron.

Worcestershire is fortunate to have many thousands of delightful buildings, a number of which are of considerable antiquity.

A candle manufactory stood on this side of the harbour at Par. Across the bay is the distinctive daymark on Gribbin Head.

Chesil Beach is a great ridge of shingle eight miles long, with a lagoon of brackish water between it and the mainland.The stones tend to be larger at one end of the beach than the other.

In April 1941 the house suffered some damage during an air raid, but it was in good enough repair to provide Winston Churchill, then the local MP, and his wife with luncheon whilst touring the district

At the beginning of the 11th century Wales, the 'territory of the Welshmen', was owned by the wealthy Mercian thegn Wulfric Spott, who also owned lands in Derbyshire and Staffordshire.

Egremont was planned by developer John Askew, a former slave-trader who made his money on land deals involving Liverpool Corporation's unwanted properties in the Wirral.

This general view of Ambleside, at the northern end of Windermere, was taken from the slopes of Loughrigg Fell.

Much of the building was destroyed at the Dissolution and many of the stones removed to other sites. This photograph depicts the magnificent ruins of the abbey in their timeless setting.

Children wait at the roadside, perhaps for transport to school. There are no vehicles in sight; it was a quiet village.

This picture of the new pier was taken shortly after it opened. The trackway used in its construction can still be seen on the beach.

But it was not without its troubles, as recorded in St James' churchyard.

The North East Counties Convalescent Home for miners and other such workers would only recently have opened at this time, as only Phase One has been built; photograph No 47052 shows the

The Harbour Inn is at least 800 years old, and very popular with the many birdwatchers who come to see the wildfowl on the River Axe.

Water and water power have had a strong influence on the development of the town, which is hardly surprising, as it stands at the confluence of three rivers, the Thames, the Coln and the Leach.

The pinnacled tower of Swanwick's parish church stands four-square at the end of Derby Road.