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One of the interesting things when looking at some of these photographs is the number of shops that even the smallest of villages seemed to have.

This view shows some of the well-laid-out flower-beds that Bridlington had a reputation for producing.

Selby still sees small ships loading and unloading at the modest wharf. Shipbuilding was also carried on here, the yard specialising in fishing vessels, tugboats and inland waterways craft.

The 12th-century tower and spire of St Mary's Church viewed from the Market Place, a symbol of the mediaeval prosperity brought to this little town from wool-trading.

Founded in 1798, with the aim of providing an education to the children of members of the Masonic Order, the school moved to its new buildings at Bushey in 1902.

On the right is the Gaumont, a classic example of the super cinema of the 1930s. In those days many people went to the cinema at least once a week.

The buildings on the right stand at the junction with Belmont Road, and are now the Belmont Inn.

In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port.

The lake of Dyffryn Mymbyr lies in a broad, windswept upland valley. It is almost divided into twin lakes by a central delta.

This column was built by public subscription in 1817 to honour a local landowner, Henry William Paget of Plas Newydd.

At the eastern edge, Overstone Manor, an elegant classical style 1930s building, is now a pub, restaurant and hotel.

A vital landmark building in trying to relate these early views to present-day Skegness is the Jubilee Clock Tower, erected at the junction of Lumley Road with the then seafront's Grand Parade and South

The Lockwood Beck Reservoir is situated at the junction of the A171 Guisborough-to-Whitby moor road with the road to Castleton.

In 1042 Edward the Confessor granted the manor of Littleham to his thane Ordgar.

It was winded by hand by means of an endless chain which hung from a chainwheel at the rear of the cap down to the ground.

On the right is the Wesleyan Chapel. John Wesley visited Newark on six occasions between 1743 and 1788.

London Road at this time appears to be reasonably well maintained, though there was a time when roads were anything but.

The railway is now behind the photographer, who is looking down High Street at the height of its Victorian expansion with the street dominated by tall telegraph poles.

Where London’s other bridges are dignified and utilitarian, Tower Bridge, with its ‘daring majesty’ cocks a snook at Victorian formality.

The Pitched Stone Court at Raglan took its name from the pitching or cobbling of its surface.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr Price

Bute Town (Drenewydd), on the top left-hand side, was modelled after a rural Cumbrian village.

One of the most attractive features of Astle Park was the lake, now almost silted up.

The 'Compton Castle', which we see here, was built by B Cox & Company of Falmouth in 1914; she originally had an open bridge which was enclosed in the 1920s.