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Old Harry (right), as the Victorians knew him, was accompanied by a slender and though somewhat undercut Old Harry's Wife (left) until she was toppled in the 1890s by the gale that went on to sweep away

remarkable features of this shot, north-eastwards from a timber jetty, actually stand between the buildings - the Haven Hotel (centre right), an 1898-built villa (left) in an acre of land that was bought by the

This view, looking downhill, is now barely recognisable: the cottages by the telegraph pole were cleared for 1960s road widening.

stood a house called The Aubreys, later the Aubrey Park Hotel, a fine part mock-Tudor building graced, in this view, by an elegant Humber Pullman limousine.It was originally Foster's Farm, and was owned by the

The church of St Peter and St Paul, another of the marshland churches, is located by the side of the A158 main road to Skegness - during the summer this is a very busy road indeed.

In 1850 this 800-acre estate was sold to Lord Londesborough, and it was later to be owned by the Fielden family from Todmorden.

Two railways touched the town: the North West line was followed by the famous Settle-Carlisle line in 1876.

the Barry lifeboat station at the entrance to Barry Docks, the watchtowe (built in 1865 when the population of Barry was fewer than 100) ceased to be used - it later became the first tea-room opened by the

Now owned by the National Federation of Women's Institutes and renamed after their founder, Lady Denman, it is a residential adult education college.

The village green is the largest in the Fylde and is graced by a duck-pond and the original village pump (other pumps were melted down and used for jointing new water mains by the Fylde Water Board).

The Ferry Inn used to have a splendid male Bittern shot by the landlord; this breed of bird has now virtually disappeared from Broadland.

The name is a corruption of 'Wirral Hill', a deer-park established by the Abbots.

The war memorial is centrally placed in the village alongside the winding street by the stream. The roots of tradition run deep here, and some old customs were observed until the 19th century.

This busy mill, powered by the waters of the river Roeburn, ruled the lives of cottagers in the 17th and 18th centuries.

However, Aston Hall, built by the grandfather of William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery MP, was demolished in 1970, even though it was in good repair.

On the right, all the red brick cottages went about 1900 to be replaced by the buildings seen in view 49245.

Many of these ornate frontages were added by the Victorians especially to banks and hotels to give an improved image to customers.

From a single tram route of a couple of miles in length in 1877, the network had over twenty miles of track by the end of 1881.

On the northern edge of the Wigan coalfield, local pits once provided employment for over 2000 miners, but by the late 1940s the mines were just a memory.

The labourer standing with his two patient charges at the farm entrance was Tom Tugwell, who was employed by the Dales when this charming photograph was taken.

This event, staged on a hot June day, marked the acquisition of the sixty acres of Colley Hill, overlooking the town, by the National Trust after a lengthy fund-raising campaign to gather the £5000 needed

Above the third vehicle, making its way down the High Street towards the junction, is the sign of the original Harrow Inn, which was demolished in 1934 and replaced by the present building.

Catterick has three greens; this one looks along Sour Beck to the 15th-century parish church of St Anne, financed by the owners of nearby Brough Hall.

Just outside the village is the 18th-century Cannon Hall, owned by the Spencer-Stanhope family. Designed by John Carr of York, it is set in 70 acres of parkland.