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Two of the girls have come down from the bridge and are inspecting the ruined south-west towers.

Stonemasons and glaziers from France and Italy built St Wilfrid's first stone church on this site in 672.

His last expedition found the North–West Passage around the north of Canada, but Franklin and his crews died in 1847 when his ships, 'Erebus' and 'Terror', were trapped in the Arctic ice.

In 1928 the west wing was rented to the council for use as offices, but the rot had set in.

The four roads which meet at the Cross are Moss Grove, Market Street, High Street, and Summer Hill, which are part of the main roads linking Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge and Wolverhampton.

To the right is John Gibson's dignified Italianate bank of 1883, now the Nat West and well restored.

The Aire and Calder Navigation of the late 18th century opened up trade between West Yorkshire and the Humber, and thence to the rest of Europe.

The church of St Mary the Virgin, standing on its mound on the edge of Romney Marsh and viewed here from the south-west, dates from the 13th and 15th centuries.

Smiddy Hill in Pickering, a bustling little market town west of Scarborough on the edge of the moors, probably takes its name from the site of a former blacksmith's shop in the area.

Although there is no evidence of habitation here before the 17th century, this windswept north-west corner of the Isle of Sheppey has since enjoyed a measure of success as a seaside resort as a result

A flying boat undergoes repair at West Cowes looking across to the famous Saunders Roe yards at East Cowes.

Charminster parish straddles the little River Cerne to the north-west of Dorchester.

Here we are looking at East Cliff towards Boscombe and Southbourne from the rising gradient of West Cliff.

Linton-on-Ouse is situated north-west of York in the broad Vale of York.

Ten years before the annual Royal Regatta began, the first Oxford and Cambridge University boat race was held on the Thames at Henley.

The small, relatively unspoilt village of Fernhurst lies on the Midhurst to Haslemere road in the north-west corner of Sussex.

Tilly Whim Caves 1894 Tilly Whim Caves, on the coast west of Swanage, are a strange mixture of quarrying and erosion.

Lustleigh Cleave, one of the Moor's most scenic valleys, lies to the west of Lustleigh itself and was cut by the River Bovey.

On the west bank of the Ant stood Ludham Mill, a tower mill nearly 50ft high to the iron curb, with a base diameter of 12ft 4in, including 18in thick walls.

St Willow's church of Lanteglos-by-Fowey stands surrounded by fields overlooking the head of Pont Pill, a branch of Fowey harbour and about a mile from Polruan.

Frith's photographer was looking from the front of the Waterfront Inn towards the Trent lock, with the old lock keeper's cottage to its left and the warehouse to its right.

On the right is the clock tower of Cambridge Hall; the clock and chimes were paid for by William Atkinson.

Looking west from the top of St Bartholomew's tower, the view across the country- side has changed little over the years, and might still be recognised by Thomas Hardy, who served as a captain under

This pretty village was the scene of a major disaster in 1952 when the East and West Lyn rivers, swollen by torrential rain, cascaded down demolishing all in their path.