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Billingham owes its development to the Great War, when a small chemical works opened nearby for the production of synthetic ammonia for use in explosives.

The architect of this building was William Waddington who designed quite a number of distinguished local buildings. This part of the building, which housed the offices, has an impressive entrance.

The new Vicar of Leeds in 1837, Dr Hook, decided to rebuild the much-altered 16th-century and rather cluttered central church. Unusually, the tower is positioned in the middle of the frontage.

At the opposite end of the High Street, the Tring Road climbs out of Wendover past this delightful range of early 17th-century timber-framed and thatched cottages.

The castle passed into the hands of the Neville family, and in 1471 Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came here to be tutored by the Earl of Warwick.

Llandudno stands back against the mass of the Great Orme's head, which shelters it from north winds, and on a neck of sand between two bays, which are so close together that in rough weather their spray

The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

Perched on the summit of Ludgate Hill at almost the highest point in the City,Wren's masterpiece is the pride of London.

A bewildering number of morning and evening newspapers was available to the Victorian reading public, including The Daily Chronicle, The Times,The Evening News and The Morning Advertiser.

John Fowler & Co. built roadrollers, traction engines and farm machinery, and there were a number of companies producing castings of various sorts.

The first recorded wooden bridge was built in 1583, and was destroyed during the siege of York. Two more were built after one another; the second was washed away by floods.

In this, the most interesting of all the houses in York, a young apprentice plumber stated that while he was working in the cellar, he heard a trumpet playing; then he saw an army of Roman soldiers marching

To the left, the stone ramparts of Worlebury Iron Age Hillfort can be seen on the very top of the hill.

This chapter opens with some views of a long-lost industrial Thames.

In 1838, the writer Robert Maudie observed: 'church and the village are beautifully situated, the former close by the bank of the river'.

We are on a high, sandy hillside on the outskirts of Hastings. Nearby, Minnis Rock Hermitage has three rock cells cut out of a sandstone cliff face; it is well conserved.

Holiday makers walk the high street, and a coach and four is about to pull up outside the Cors-y-Cedol Hotel, one of the resort's many hotels.

Just on the left of the picture is the entrance to Lewis's Department Store, the first large-scale retail outlet in Manchester.

Barnsley was founded by the monks of St John's Priory, Pontefract, after they had been granted the manor and rights to hold weekly markets and annual fairs.

For a couple of decades or so Sheffield's public parks became the focal point for local Whit-Sunday celebrations.

Two miles south of Congleton stands Little Moreton Hall, a magnificent moated manor house, originally built in the mid-15th century by Sir Richard de Moreton and added to by successive generations of his

A holidaying family relax with their dog outside the Old King's Arms pub and boarding house in the cobbled centre of the ancient village of Hawkshead.

Lynn's market place is one of the very finest in England, enriched by a profusion of Georgian and Victorian public buildings, including the florid Corn Exchange built in 1854.

Even when fully laden, such wherries would only draw a little over two feet of water, making them the perfect vessels for navigating the shallow waters of the Broads.