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Two children sit by the roadside playing near the sign for a café. It seems hard to believe that this was once an industrial landscape - alum used to be mined here.

This massive medieval structure, formed of flint and ruddy Dutch bricks, squats close by the river, near Bishop Bridge.

Dedicated by the Duke of York (or rather a plaster cast of it, as the bronze itself did not arrive until ten days later) in July 1922, it depicts a young soldier wearing a laurel victory wreath.

This particular picture reveals the cascade in all its glory, uncluttered by the trees that enclosed the fall in later years.

One problem not foreseen by the planners was the dramatic increase in car ownership. The initial blueprint allowed for one garage for every six homes.

Overlooking the corner of Manchester Road and Deardengate in the centre of Haslingden, and readily identified by the large clock projecting into the street, is the Commercial Hotel.

Exeter's canal was built at the request of the Tudor merchants, who were exasperated by the weirs on the Exe that obstructed their vessels.

When W H N Nithersdale wrote his book on the Highlands of Staffordshire, he was impressed by the number of public houses in the village, all of which did a roaring trade during the summer months and

The erection of iron railings by the Windsor Estate to enclose and prevent access to the beach except by gates is already under way.

The village is famous for a charming myth which suggests that if the mist in the beechwoods on the nearby Downs rolled westwards towards Cocking, then rain was on the way.

In 1844 it was acquired by the Dean and Chapter to use for St Peter's School, which had outgrown its former site.

The headland itself is now owned by the National Trust.

Tourism was boosted in 1930 by the opening of the high-class Carlyon Bay Hotel on a headland overlooking St Austell Bay.

Cadhay House was built by the Elizabethan lawyer John Haydon, who now rests in Ottery's parish church.

Silver Street led from the Market Place to the river, which was lined by the warehouses and factories of this once busy inland port, including my grandfather’s Rose Brothers, a packaging machinery

The carriage road from Liskeard terminated at this tranquil village of brown stone cottages set by a creek swept by the tides.

This ancient fishing town is divided in two by the Looe estuary. In summer the wooded slopes above are a mass of myrtle and hydrangea.

The top hats sported by the boys can still be seen, even if they are no longer generally worn for the rest of the year.

In the 18th century, the almost picturesque group of church and school was completed by the addition of the town stocks and whipping post.

By the time of Domesday Book, 'Bexelei' was recorded as a small village, which had scarcely recovered from the Norman invasion.

Kirkby Lonsdale's famous Devil's Bridge over the River Lune traditionally gets its name because it was built by the Devil, who claimed the soul of the first being to cross it.

The ivy-clad ruins of Wothorpe House have been an attraction for tourists for over a hundred years, and it is of no surprise that they were included by the Frith photographer in his collection of Stamford

Rothwell's history dates back to long before the Danish invasion of the Dark Ages. 4,000 years ago Bronze Age settlers came to this area, followed by the Romans.

The round turret by the side of the main entrance with its ogee cap looks very much like a windmill tower.