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The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

At the south end of the High Street Frith's photographer looks northwards beside the turning on the right into Hawleys Lane.

The main shopping areas of Broad Street and Church Street have not changed too much in character since the camera clicked on this scene.

Middleton was granted a market charter on 23 June 1791 and the market remained here until 1939. Surrounded by shops and inns, the Market Place was the hub of the town for many years.

As we head north, Warton Crag is the first sign of the Lake District with its ancient limestone rocks.

On the B1368 road a mile or so north of Braughing stands the small community of Hay Street.

Here is a village at ease with itself, in the heart of stone country. On the extreme right is a single-decker bus which would now be an asset to any transport collection.

A mile or so south of Quorn, the camera looks north towards the weir, with Hawcliff Hill and Buddon Wood to the left.

Seaton developed as a resort in the 1850s, and in the years that followed a number of hotels were built to cater for the town's popularity with visitors.

This Gothic arched doorway was originally the front door of The Mount, which was where Stanley Baldwin lived as a boy. The 19th century house is now a hotel (the Stourport Manor Hotel).

Pentewan was developed as a port in the 1820s for shipping ores and china clay, which were brought down from St Austell on a railway built in 1829.

The parish church of St Michael is one of the most interesting in the Lake District.

We are not sure when it became the 'local', but it is thought that Mr Romer Williams, whose name it preserves, was the resident of Newnham Hall for the first decades of the 20th century.

The hospital opened in 1775; the portico entrance nearest the camera was the front of a Mental Asylum, which was incorporated into the building.

We pass under the River Thames via the Blackwall Tunnel - the northbound side dates from the 1890s, an early project of the LCC, which was established in 1888.

The Mary Pym clock sits on top of the town's conduit, which had a trough for horses and a smaller one for dogs.

The college was founded in 1509 and takes its name from the form of an ancient brass door-knocker.

A minor 14th-century castle, Naworth stands on a triangular piece of land by the river Irthling with deep ditch defences on three sides and a moat and drawbridge on the fourth.

The Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth soon after the conquest on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913, but this was replaced by the shell-keep and tower that still stand

We can see the corner of the 13th-century castle in the top right of this photograph. The house dominating the picture was built by Thomas Mansel-Talbot in the 1770s.

This is one of two mills on the north bank of the Wharfe.

This is a fine example of an old farming village - in 1974 it was declared a conservation area.

This classic view of Buxton from The Slopes was taken during its heyday as an inland spa created largely by the efforts of the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

Here we see a close-up view of the Market Hall with its imposing front and large statues mounted over the entrance.