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Walsworth Road in 1901, at the junction with Whinbush Road and looking towards the station. The building on the left is a lodge forming part of the Hermitage estate.

We are at the bottom of the hill looking back towards the Square. The ornamental railings on the right are those of Botley Mill.

Here, those staying in Royal Terrace or at The Royal Hotel, could walk in peace, or linger for a while on one of the benches provided.

After Wolverhampton, Walsall is the largest of the Black Country towns. Between 1801 and 1901 its population rose from 10,000 to 87,000—and it is considerably higher today at over 184,000.

Here Broadgate starts to climb out of the valley. Whites Mineral Waters was rebuilt in 1994 as a county library, but the battlemented and towered former Drill Hall of 1890 survives.

The Ford Tractor Plant—resplendent with its 600,000 gallon water-tower (right)—occupied the whole of the No 3 Industrial Estate.

To the right of them lies Swan Meadow, once home to the village fair. This event survives as Horndon-on-the-Hill Feast & Fayre, which takes place at the end of June, to mark St Peter's Day.

Mells Manor, largely Elizabethan, was built on the site of a medieval monastic manor.

Right of the Westminster Bank stands Manor Court, which was built as a merchant's house in 1550; in the upper rooms, some ceilings still retain their fine plasterwork decoration.

The old four-poster with its faded canopy and drapes is kept at arms length by a wire fence and a rope. It was Charles II who ordered extensive alterations to Holyrood.

Queen Victoria commissioned George Gilbert Scott to create the highly decorated interior of this 15th century Chapel to commemorate her husband, Prince Albert, who died in 1861.

Allowed out during the day, the prisoners at Chesterfield were summoned back to quarters by the ringing of a curfew bell from St Mary's.

The ruins of the once luxurious state rooms at Bolsover Castle. It was probably in these rooms that the Duke of Newcastle lavished thousands of pounds on entertaining Charles I.

The City Headquarters building, designed in 1927 by A E and Trevor Sawday, encapsulates an air of civic authority whilst at the same time exhaling a breath of almost domestic-scale confidence in

There has been a bridge over the river at this point for centuries. The old bridge with its seven irregular arches dates from the late 13th century, and was partially rebuilt in 1347-58.

Go back to the Avon valley, turn right at the traffic lights by the Viaduct Inn, then left towards Lower Limpley Stoke.

Inside the church (not visible in this photograph) lies the tomb of Capability Brown, who became a cult figure among the aristocracy for his stylised landscaping.

This photograph shows the Victoria Hospital after the construction of Thornber Gardens, which were laid out in 1897, the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, at the expense of the Mayor of Burnley

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Madford House (left, behind the trees) stood on the site now occupied by the tax office.

Dumfries itself became a royal burgh in the 12th century, but the two towns were not officially amalgamated until 1929.

A little-known fact is that Exeter was the first place to be served by an artificial canal with locks.

Devizes is perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Avon valley. From there, the Kennet & Avon Canal plunges down the extraordinary flight of 29 locks at Caen Hill to the valley below.

With the Mumbles Railway carrying as many as 40,000 passengers on a bank holiday, the village prospered. The name 'Mumbles' actually derives from the French 'mamelles', meaning 'breasts'.