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With the slaughterhouse, the 'chemical manure' factory and a railway engine shed, the houses to the left must have suffered greatly from the smoke and smells emanating from this site.

The horizontal plume of smoke from the funnel of the ship moored off Sun Pier suggests that the glass shelter on the right might have offered welcome protection from an off- shore breeze

There are bemused children, a caped policemen patrolling the area on horseback and a man sitting on a fence smoking a pipe.

The most famous iron furnace here was the 'Bedlam Furnace': with its flames and smoke, and noise and grime, it must have seemed like the very gates of Hell.

There is industry in the foreground, with the smoking chimney of a china clay dry, railway trucks at a repair works and the gasworks on the left.

Craster oak-smoked kippers are considered to be the best in England, and anyone paying a visit to the village really should not leave without buying some.

The river Taw runs through the plain behind the smoking chimney, with Tawstock beyond.

Customers at The Red House could not only see its smoke but also watch a steady stream of vessels hauling freights up to Norwich.

Horbury's Grammar School was in Highfield Road, where older pupils were provided with a smoking room.

At this time it was a smoke-begrimed steelmaking town with a population of over 380,000.

Just five miles south of Huddersfield on the road to Wakefield, Kirkburton in the 19th century was just as polluted by smoke as its near neighbours.

There are bemused children, a caped policemen patrolling the area on horseback and a man sitting on a fence smoking a pipe.

Yet one can still sense the pall of smoke that lies over all of the buildings in the valley.

Now bypassed by the A616, Stocksbridge has been 'cleaned up'; it no longer has the constant pall of smoke hanging over it, as it did when this photograph was taken.

Now bypassed by the A616, Stocksbridge has been 'cleaned up'; it no longer has the constant pall of smoke hanging over it, as it did when this photograph was taken.

The air here, once so dense with the smoke of the ironworks, is now crisp and clear.

Richard Jefferies described the scene in the 1880s: 'Like the spokes of a wheel converging, streams of human life flow into this agitated pool...

In the gable is a flushwork 10-spoked wheel.

It had its own abattoir, smoke house and mobile shop.

The original mast was a wagon tipped on its side with a pole thrust through the spokes of the wheels.

The smoking chimney of the paper mill is in the middle foreground, with the cottages of Chartham Hatch just behind.

The strangely landlocked lighthouse was safely positioned away from the cliff edge but not too central in the town, where the smoke from coal fires might have obscured the light.

The town developed in the 19th century as a suburb of Manchester for those who could afford to live away from the smoke and grime, and could also spare the time to travel.

The Crown is a 200-year-old pub that once hosted 'smoking concerts'.