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The village population had grown to just short of 700, and there were now over 100 houses. The way of life had remained basically agricultural.

Haigh Hall was designed by the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford for himself and built at a cost of £100,000 between c1832 and 1840.

It is one of the biggest in the country with over 200 volumes, the oldest dating back to 1343.

Beeston was one of a series of fortresses built by Rannulf de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln.

Runcorn is now the terminus of the Bridgewater Canal, but there was a time when it continued down a massive flight of locks to connect with the Mersey and the Ship Canal.

Another view of the Bowness Ferry shows a full coach-and-four just about to set out from the Bowness side of the lake, with the coachman at the front steadying the nervous horses.

There is not much traffic - a car and a motorcycle with pillion passenger - in this view of the road running down from Dunmail Raise into Grasmere.

The north end of King Street has changed dramatically since 1904: the right hand side is mostly occupied by the backside of Tesco's, and on the left only The Rose pub, with the tall chimney, and the Methodist

The bridge was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1885 and opened in 1894.

This view shows the range of shipping that could once be seen on the MSC. The steamer to the right is the 'Alverton' from West Hartlepool.

We are at the foot of the Downs, with fine views nearby. Holy Trinity Church was built in 1866 in the Decorated style, on the site of a medieval church.

Mostyn Street is one of Llandudno's main shopping streets; we see it here pictured in bright sunlight.

The town's arcaded Market House of 1870 stands in the Square. The local dark building stone has given Dolgellau much of its character.

This photograph shows the town clinging to the sea with some lines of very small cottages. The mound is man-made, and was very likely first topped by a Norman fort.

In this picture the new promenade and sea wall provide plenty of space to walk, while the beach below gives a hint of what it looked like in its natural state.

By the time of its demolition in 1971, the congregation had amalgamated with that of Baddow Road Congregational Church and built the new Christ Church on the site of a former brickyard in New London

We are standing on Winckford Bridge across the Chelmer - described by Peter Muilman in his 1769 'History of Essex' as “a handsome bridge built of wood, painted.”

On the River Erewash, close to the confluence of the Trent with Leicestershire's River Soar, this Derbyshire town was bisected by the Erewash Canal in 1779 and made readily accessible by

Caravan camps have become much more sophisticated since the 1950s, but they also had lots of fun in those days, you can be sure of that!

Sir Alliott Verdon-Roe, one of Britain's first aviators, is buried in this partly Norman church.

The port was able to send twenty ships to Calais in 1347, thanks to the financial success of the wool trade, but its privileges were curtailed by Henry VIII in favour of Poole, and the

A tranquil scene in the quiet little village of Bawdsey. Some thirty years later, Bawdsey was to play a vital part in the defence of Britain against the Luftwaffe.

The big Greek portico of the General Post Office of 1818 is prominent in the centre of the picture. It played a central part in the Easter Rising in 1916.

Trinity College was founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I, and this picture of the main quadrangle looks towards the oldest extant college buildings, the red brick 'Rubrics', of about 1700, where Oliver Goldsmith