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The High Street sports a branch of F W Woolworth, and the local branch of the National Provincial Bank is housed in half-timbered style premises.

Wash Road was a road of many farms: Watch-House, Mundell's, Petchey's, Benson's, Puckle's, Sellers, and Laindonponds.

The narrow, twisting High Street is flanked by buildings of all shapes and periods, many hung with the characteristic dark blue slates.

Here we see a tangled web of wood and rope in a photograph evoking the end of an era. Almost in the memory of this young lad, the sea had competed its final devastation of Slaughden.

Both this gypsy vardo, or travelling wagon, and Mr Robbins' old farm cart would have been familiar to earlier generations as they travelled the lanes of Worcestershire.

With the decline of the coaching trade, the proprietors of the George sought other sources of income.

The foreground of this view is now entirely obscured by trees and hedging. The railway line is no longer visible.

The second was a 12th-century Norman church - the shaft of a Norman piscina remains in the Lady Chapel - and the third church, built in the 13th cen- tury in Early English style, was restored in

Margate received its Charter of Incorporation in 1857.

Victorian Glasgow may have been a parvenu compared with Edinburgh, with its ancient history as Scotland's capital and its 18th-century reputation as the Athens of the North, but Glasgow's unparalleled

This is the east end of the chancel and side chapels of the parish church of St Michael the Archangel. These walls date from 1505, but the building becomes older as it rises to the west.

To go to Styal now, it takes some imagination to see this place as a prime example of cutting edge technology, but 200 years ago this was the case.

St James' Church Kirk is a place of worship of very ancient origin. 'Church' is a Northumbrian word and 'Kirk' is Mercian; both words mean 'a place of worship'.

Once at the heart of King John's hunting ground of Cranborne Chase, the village of Cranborne is rich in history.

This is a slightly earlier view over the rooftops of the hotel complex, with some of the buildings of Clappersgate visible below Loughrigg.

Situated next to the Pest House and south of the church, this single-storey block of ten houses ranges on three sides of a courtyard.

St Andrew's church, in Church Lane, has served this ancient parish for hundreds of years.

This is one of the significant relics of the industrial past of the Ebbw Vale area, and at one time a busy railway line ran over the top of this arch.

One of the striking features of this photograph is that many of the shops have awnings to keep their wares cool and shaded in summer – a rare sight today.

This was yet another popular spot with smugglers, who often ensured the silence of the local parson with the odd cask of brandy.

In the one hundred years following the building of the Peak Forest Canal in 1801 the population of Romiley tripled.

The pride of the stationmaster at Burry Port is typical of the time - it was considered the stationmaster's duty to make the platform as attractive as possible.

The waterfalls of Stock Ghyll Force have been a major attraction to visitors to Ambleside for well over a century, but this is a very early photograph of them.

An Old Yard off Stricklandgate 1914. One of the most engaging characteristics of Kendal is its multitude of charming side alleys and yards, such as this off the main thoroughfare of Stricklandgate.