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The sign on the creeper-clad walls of the Old Bridge Hotel proclaim it as 'one of England's best'.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

This waterfall is not as spectacular as the Rhenass falls of Glen Helen or those of Glen Meay or Dhoon Glen, but even so the Frith cameraman managed to provide us with a pleasing view of the Colby falls

Virginia creeper has now spread to every inch of stonework on the 18th- century house (centre right).

Prestatyn's station on the Chester and Holyhead section of the L & NWR meant that it became increasingly popular with holidaymakers, especially with those from the Liverpool area.

Today's visitors can repair to the bar in the basement of the hotel, which occupies part of the west range of the abbey.

Situated six miles northwest of Barnard Castle, the village takes its name from St Romald, the son of a Northumbrian king; he was born in Buckingham in about 800, his mother having taken refuge there during

The British School of 1859, demolished in the late 1960s, was much like the National School, now Andover Primary School (C of E Controlled) which still thrives today in lower East Street.

Well-dressed 'promenaders' stroll along the parade, while in the foreground a troupe of minstrels entertain a crowd of holidaymakers.

This is an archive photograph all right: few of these buildings remain, partly as a result of the tragic floods of 1953 when the sea burst through the sea walls.

Trams first trundled down Cheltenham's streets on 22 August 1901. By the end of the 1920s they had been rendered redundant by the quicker, go-anywhere buses, and the trams were withdrawn in 1930.

Even into the third decade of the 20th century, the blacksmith's role in rural life remained important.

Further north along Gateford Road, near the Gladstone Street turn, the spire of St John the Evangelist's can be seen on the right behind the tall three-storey terrace of 1870s shops.

Housing has not yet developed out into the fields where tall elm trees break up the line of the hedgerow on the right.

For hundreds of years, the nearness of Purbeck to the coast of France meant that smuggling was a major industry; smuggled goods would often be hidden in the caves and quarries of the Isle.

This hybrid of a survival reveals in its stonework the continuing patchwork of alteration.

The course was built to designs by Hawtree & Taylor in 1924 on 99 acres of land, and the first games were being played by April the next year.

Dogs are at play in this photograph of a peaceful West Sussex village.

The foundation of Folkestone's prosperity during the 19th century, these packet boats conveying passengers across the Channel to the coast of France some twenty-six miles away transformed Folkestone

Within the short span of 40 years (AD1220-AD1260) the Cathedral was built uniquely in one Gothic style, Early English.

At this time boys were often in their teens before they got a pair of long trousers. Jeans were unheard of, and the design of children's clothes had hardly changed for thirty years.

In AD910 Tettenhall was the scene of one of the most important battles in English history. It was here that Edward the Elder of Wessex defeated the Danes. The battle marked a turning point.

Today Little Sutton has become a suburb of the much newer town of Ellesmere Port.

Along with Northwich and Nantwich, Middlewich is one of the three salt towns of Cheshire. It sits over the old Roman town of Salinae.