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Along with Mill Street and Jordangate, Chestergate was one of the first streets to be properly paved, and, more importantly, to be provided with surface drainage.

The local churchyard includes a famous, intricately carved monument to 'Brusher' Mills, a renowned local snake catcher who died about 50 years before this photograph was taken.

A mill was recorded on this site in the Domesday survey of 1086, and underneath the buildings shown in this photograph are the footings of an earlier water-driven construction.

Here we see part of the town's waterfront, with a boat yard on the left, and Caffa Mill Pill, an inlet since reclaimed for a car park and a new slipway for the ferry.

To the far left is Elstead Mill, once a worsted factory. An early motoring pioneer, Chaplin Court Treatt, also lived there.

Iffley Mill, first mentioned in 1106, was destroyed by fire in 1908. The lock was the first of three pound locks, or turnpikes as they used to be known, built on the river in 1632.

This ancient market town clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several reasons: it boasts the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

Jack, on the left, is a large brick-built tower mill which was worked until the early part of this century.

The Midland Bank occupies a small but distinctive stone building next door to Mill Bay laundry, and Myners the butcher's uses the ground floor of Tremayne House (left).

On the Wraysbury bank, near to where we see the boathouse of W Hanes and Sons, there once was a wharf where iron ore was landed for refining at a local mill before being taken to London.

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

Henry Wormwell, a mill and general furnishing engineer, had premises on the corner of Piccadilly, the block of shops just opposite the Town Hall.

The shops on the right are on the site of the Piccadilly shops built by Edmund Hepple using the compensation for loss of use of his corn mill during the building of the railway viaduct

Although described in this 1950s photograph as 'The Mill', this sturdy 18th-century cottage at picturesque Ashford in the Water, near Bakewell, looks more like a farmhouse, with its barn and stables on

South Ockendon's smock mill - seen here across the moat of a long-vanished hall - was built c1829. It may have stood on the site of an ancient watermill.

To his left, a group of schoolchildren mill around waiting for their school bus, while opposite, the gleaming white building of the Picture House awaits its cinemagoers.

There used to be a 17th-century water mill by the pool, but it was demolished in 1962, soon after this photograph was taken.

The ancient market town of Knaresborough clings to the limestone bluff of a gorge carved by the River Nidd, and is famous for several things: the oldest woollen mill in England, Mother Shipton, a 15th-century

The first silk mill in England had been established at Derby by John Lombe in 1715. Lombe had worked as a silk weaver in Italy where he secretly made drawings of the machinery.

Mill Bank, or simply 'Loftus Bank', forms the approach to Loftus from Carlin How and, to this day, tests the skills of even the most careful driver, particularly in the winter months.

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

Roger de Newburgh moved them here, inland to a mill and meadows beside the River Frome in 1172.

Roger de Newburgh moved them here, inland to a mill and meadows beside the River Frome in 1172.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs