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British Dyes During the Boer War, Read Holliday and Sons manufactured picric acid for the explosive Lyddite which resulted in a massive explosion at the works in 1900.

When the Cardigan estate at Kirkstall and Headingley was sold at auction in 1889, a group of businessmen with an enthusiasm for sports purchased Lot 17A.

When the Cardigan estate at Kirkstall and Headingley was sold at auction in 1889, a group of businessmen with an enthusiasm for sports purchased Lot 17A.

The shingled spire of the 14th-century church of St Peter and St Paul rises above this picturesque collection of old houses and shops at the southern end of the churchyard.

The church sits in a well-treed landscape, close to the basically late 16th-century Hall of the Hartopp family, who financed the building of the church in 1851.

The Peek mansion at Rousdon was built by spice importer Sir Henry William Peek in 1877.

The A6 road runs across the Common at Harpenden, under the 'Baa Lamb' trees and into the High Street.

In 1938 the gatehouse was turned into a traffic island when the wall at the right in photo-

The church at Painswick has a right-angled, almost fortress-like chapel, which dates back hundreds of years.

The bandstand in the centre of the park was designed by Mr Adams, the Borough Surveyor, at a cost of £267 in 1923.

This shows a bury day at the market, note the people to the front of the crowd are posing for the photographer.

Built in the Scottish Baronial style, at a cost of £400,000, the infirmary was dealing with 8,000 patients a year by 1900.

This photograph shows the Chapel Royal at Holyroodhouse. It was originally the nave of the abbey founded in 1128 by David I.

The depth at its deepest point is 100 feet. The delightful steam boat is the 'Maid of Athens'. A trip round Waterloo lake was 2d for adults and 1d for children.

Policemen on point duty at the Cross worked 40 minutes on, then had 20 minutes off, and in 1928 the Daily Mail described the officer on this harrowing duty as 'the busiest man in England'

This view of the High Street shows many buildings that have either since disap- peared or have been radi- cally reworked.

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long

The branch railway from Weymouth to Portland (left) was built westwards from Weymouth railway yard (centre right) in 1862 and opened in 1865.

This is the Roman canal from the Brayford Pool in Lincoln to the river Trent at Torksey, and it is the oldest canal in England.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was given as a private house to Thomas Birch, one of the yeoman of the Crown.

Of all the villages that surround Durham City, old Brancepeth is particularly well steeped in legend and history.

This view looks back towards Woolworth's from Bakehouse Hill, where the mini-roundabout marks the convergence of the High Street, Gold Street and Lower Street.

This is the Roman canal from the Brayford Pool in Lincoln to the river Trent at Torksey, and it is the oldest canal in England.

This red-brick Georgian house, with bay windows and surmounted by a small white cupola, was coveted by the author Charles Dickens ever since he was a boy living at Chatham; he often passed it on long