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Allt-yr-yn is the name of the hill in the distance. The lock chambers on this canal had their own individual size: 64ft 9in x 9ft 2ins - a most peculiar gauge. The canal became disused in 1930.

We are looking north along the A5, with the Town Hall tower on the grey horizon.

In a scene that has changed little in 100 years, the tranquil surface of the River Avon gently reflects the majesty of the Cathedral and its magnificent 404 feet spire, the highest in England.

A few minutes from the centre of the original village and situated by the weir, this small 19th-century hotel on the banks of the River Lea, with its eight rooms, was, and still is, popular with anglers

St Thomas's was once a chapel of ease to St Stephen's church, down in the valley next to the River Kensey and close to Launceston priory, of which some ruins remain.

Built at a cost of £2,000 on the junction of Basset Street (left) with Trevenson Street, the Passmore Edwards Free Library was opened on 23 May 1895 and boasted 5,400 volumes.

Kiveton Park was once an estate belonging to Sir Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby and later First Duke of Leeds; the house, designed by William Talman, has long since been demolished.

In 1928 the Electra was one of the first cinemas in Sheffield to show part silent, part sound films.

The church was badly damaged during the last siege of the castle after being used as a lookout for the opposing side.

This view of the Mill House, further north along the Buckinghamshire bank, captures wonderfully the curious formality of late Victorian leisure activity as the fishermen sit stiffly in

Beyond are workshops and outhouses, now all gone and replaced by 1970s blocks of three-storey flats.

The town eventually became a station on the London to Dorchester line. Given the lack of straight sections of line in the vicinity, the railway here was nicknamed 'Castleman's Corkscrew'.

The little village of Loose, pronounced 'Luse', is pleasantly situated on the little river of the same name just to the south of Maidstone.

By 1925 there were just over a million vehicles of all types on the roads, of which 695,000 were privately-owned cars.

Kendal's church of the Holy Trinity is Cumbria's largest parish church, and dates from the 13th century, although it was extensively restored 60 years before this photograph was taken, between

Church Brough is clustered around the parish church of St Michael, and there is also an area of the town known as Brough Sowerby.

Two miles south of Maidstone, this little secretive village perched on a hillside once had thirteen watermills within its boundaries, powered by the two main streams flowing into the River Medway.

Following its dissolution in the 16th century, Lilleshall Abbey has become a ruin - its stones were used for the building of many houses in the area.

Shirebrook is a small town on the border with Nottinghamshire which grew up with, and was dominated by, the growth of the Shirebrook and Langwith collieries.

What eventually became of them is one of the city's enduring mysteries, though the stonework may have been used in the building of the parks rockery by Brunswick Place.

Calshot has long been popular with local people and holidaymakers for the views it affords of Southampton Water.This stretch of the Hampshire coastline is the perfect spot to watch all the comings

The old Town Hall is a dignified building of mellow brick with a clock beneath an elegant cupola.The building looks just the same now as it did in about 1960; nowadays, part of it is a dance and

Standing at the head of the Eastern Valley, in an industrially ravaged landscape, Blaenavon was declared a World Heritage Site in 2000.

The Presbyterian church, whose towers are visible in the distance, was completed in 1869, although the building bears the date of 1863.