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Canals totally changed the transportation of goods around the country - in fact, once a string of boats started to move, it was possible for a single horse to pull up to 20 boats, each laden with up to

In the 19th century this area of the town was prone to flooding, and the mill dam was blamed. In 1879 the Corporation bought the mill from Lord Stafford and built a new weir and floodgates.

Situated at the junction of Prince's Road and Hanger Hill, this was formerly called The Birches. By the 1960s it was divided into flats and bedsits.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

Built in 1877, it was badly damaged in the three-night 'Blitz' of 1941 which claimed so many of Swansea's buildings (and not a few of its more unfortunate inhabitants).

The clunch and Barnack limestone vaulted undercroft, or basement, of the present house is all that remains of an upper hall of the Benedictine nunnery founded in the 12th century by Isabel the Bolebec.

The church of St Peter occupies an island site where the main street divides.

The large building on the right housed the premises of Cripps & Son, shoe retailers. Both the first and second floors were used as storage areas.

In the middle distance on the left are the masts of ships in the lee of Drake's Island.

Allington is a hamlet on the Medway just to the north of Maidstone. It is best known for its castle, situated hard by the River Medway. This view shows the excellent defensive site of the castle.

A typical Pennine farmstead, sheltered by a sycamore and standing on the edge of the moors, lies on the outskirts of Walsden.

A number of Dorset villages take their name from the River Piddle, or Puddle, as it is sometimes known.

Heading north-east out of Bath on the A4, cross the A46 junction onto the old A4, which soon becomes Batheaston High Street.

Walk along Brock Street, and you reach the quite extraordinary Royal Crescent of John Wood the Younger.

Gonville and Caius College is on the left, along with James Gibbs' elegant Senate House, where students are awarded their degrees.

Wribbenhall is situated on the opposite bank of the river to Bewdley, and architecturally its streets are far more interesting than Severnside.

There are plenty of people about on this warm sunny day. To the left, children cycle in the road; others sit on benches or the pavement.

North of the bypass are Rumbridge Street and the High Street, offering quieter shopping streets.

An old village on the Cheshire side of the Manchester Ship Canal, Flixton was developed as a residential suburb of Manchester.

On the left we have Porter & Sons, wholesale glass and china merchants, and the imposing bulk of the Guildhall with its porticoed entrance supported on Corinthian columns.

Rotherham Grammar School grew out of a free school that had been endowed through royal patronage.

The Lodore Hotel, at the southern end of Derwent Water, is a fine Victorian Gothic structure, built at the foot of the twin cascades known as the Lodore Falls, which were very popular in the Victorian

This murky view looks west from the Pool of London towards what was to become one of the mechanical wonders of the late 19th century.

A random collection of cottages around a pair of lanes forms an oval.