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This major avenue crosses the Broadway at Grangetown, and illustrates the high quality housing originally provided for the local steel industry.

Today's motorists lane-hopping on the M6 over the nearby Thelwall viaduct might envy the traffic flow through 1950s Thelwall!

The Cantilever's design is similar to the high level bridge at Warburton, but fortunately for Warrington's frustrated motorists, no toll is exacted here!

The church, dedicated in 1124 to St Kyneburga, the third of four daughters of Peada, King of Mercia and founder of the abbey at Peterborough, stands on a slight rise overlooking the village of Castor and

Polperro's harbour, dry at low tide, is protected by twin quays.

Just over a mile separates this popular sandy bay from St Ives. Above the coast path at Porthminster Point lived the 'Huer', whose job it was to watch for the arrival of the pilchard shoals.

Andie Craine and his Pierrots are doing their show on the beach. Their performances began in 1846 and continued for 46 years.

Nailsworth may not be the most attractive town in the Cotswolds, but the student of industrial archaeology will find it a fascinating place to visit.

This is the nurses' home at the local hospital. Nurses were unmarried and there were strict regulations governing their behaviour, both on and off duty.

Edward Gibbon, the historian who wrote 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire', lived at the Manor House as a child.

French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road.

The Manor House C1960 The 16th-century half-timbered Manor House in Vyne Road fronts directly onto the road, so that its striking architecture, including carved bargeboards on the gables, can

It was one of the first colleges to be built in red brick at the time when the rather expensive fashion of imported stone began to decline.

The Dawlish Water and its high tributary the Smallacombe Brook rise on the wooded heathland of Little Haldon Hill, which rises eight hundred feet at the back of the town.

Alongside the river, close to the bridge, this building has now lost its croquet lawns. Once part of the council offices, today it houses Paxtons Restaurant downstairs and a bed and breakfast above.

Two coped stones with round ends, and fragments of crosses from the 9th century, can be found at the west end of the north aisle.

On 1 January 1651, Charles II was crowned king of Scotland with Robert the Bruce's gold circlet. His coronation was bought at a price.

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.

Rising as it does in the hills on the Staffordshire and Cheshire borders, the Trent in 1885 was estimated at being about 150 miles in length with a drainage area of 4050 square miles, of which 2900 were

The same two giants later had an argument, and one of them threw his spade at the other. The spade missed, but struck the hill instead, causing the gash now known as the Needle's Eye.

Oakengates' most famous personality was the son of a local coal-miner.

On the right is Freeman, Hardy & Willis Ltd with their 'boot warehouse' at 33 High Street. Between them and the Swan is Drury's - 'the shop for men'.

Here we are at the lower end of Kirkgate, all car-free today.

To reach Dartmeet in 1871, carrying a cumbersome Victorian camera and the paraphernalia that accompanied it, would have been something of an adventure.