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The wooden jetty on the left would have been used at high tide. This photograph was taken long before the widening of the promenade.

In July 1889 Walter Davies, manager of a pawnshop in Market Street, was found dying from a stab wound to his neck.

These are the original university buildings at Western Bank, built between 1903 and 1905.

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.

Here we see another peaceful scene taken at the same time as photograph 70592. The boat is a disused butty, and makes a fine perch for the anglers.

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and at

Jonson was 45 years old when in 1618 he left London and walked the 400 miles to Scotland. At Darlington his shoes gave out, and he had to buy another pair.

The children pictured here have been captured forever in their innocence, looking at the photographer from a very dilapidated-looking Shambles.

Morris & Ebson constructed this gaudy building, of red brick and Bath stone, between 1849-51, in the style of Henry VII, whose mother Margaret, Countess of Richmond, founded the seminary

This quintessential English scene shows the Hythe Cricket Club at play.

Look at the crowds thronging this seaport in the year that the Thanet Electric Tramways & Lighting Company launched a new service between Margate, Ramsgate, and Broadstairs.

Now known as Crown Square, this busy junction at the centre of Matlock has always been the hub of the town.

The village is still celebrated on Easter Monday as the home of the Maids of Biddenden, Eliza and Mary Chulkhurst, two Tudor Siamese twins joined at the shoulders and hips, who lived for thirty-four

East Howe Lane (right) leads to Wimborne Road at Headless Cross. East Howe Congregational Hall on the corner displays a poster for YMCA Club events.

This slightly later view looks across what has become the motor launch area of the Bowness boat station.

The station buildings and goods sheds are at the junction between the main line and the Newquay branch.

The Parade was built in Georgian times as the fashionable residential quarter of the town. Near here, members of the royal family would stay during and after the reign of George III.

This view across Bradwell shows the prominent chimney of the Hope Valley Cement Works at Hope, a valuable source of employment for local people.

You could be forgiven for not recognising this building today. This is the original church facing Beanfield Avenue and Newark Drive.

Two lads enjoy the view from the hillside above Newby Bridge, the small village at the southern end of Windermere, with the low south Lakeland hills in the background.

Some, such as Lady Nelson, widow of the Admiral, never left. She lies buried in the churchyard at nearby Littleham.

This view, taken from the square of the National Gallery, was blocked by temporary wooden tiered seating erected for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee procession to St Paul's Cathedral.

The Talbot Arms pub, the building on the right, has since been renamed the Tunnel Top. Crossing below the road at this point there is, in fact, a tunnel for the Trent and Mersey Canal.

East Budleigh's main street has changed little since this photograph was taken at the outbreak of the Great War.