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The building of Scarborough Castle began around 1135. The castle was the scene of the first action by the barons against Edward II.

The church of St Mary dominates the surrounding area. The town originally developed because of the local weavers, and also as a market town.

This marvellously detailed view of the High Street before it was transformed into a pedestrian precinct was taken from the first floor of the Cock Hotel.

The lane past Fountain Cottage leads to the quiet surroundings of All Saints' Church.

In contrast with the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, the towns and villages of the east have become one continuous conurbation because of their proximity to the River Mersey and Liverpool.

Obviously still viable in these photographs, Southport Pier was closed in the 1990s; it was demolished and rebuilt at a total cost of £7 million, and was reopened in 2002.

It is possible that one of them lay on the site of Ware Mill, later part of the factory of Allen & Hanbury.

This view up towards top church takes in about half of it. The prominence of the church tower is emphasised well.

This is the bottom or western end of Westgate.

Ebbw Vale was one of the first steelworks. Bessemer steel was produced here as early as 1866, and this process continued until the last Bessemer blow in 1962.

Here is a wonderfully atmospheric shot, typical of the best of late 19th-century photography, illustrating the beautiful view from which Belvoir derives its name.

The Church, seen across the combined waters of the Avon and Stour on their way to the sea, is a commanding feature of the scenery.

This is the top of Market Street, adjacent to Piccadilly.

The only set of traffic lights in Kettering coped with a trickle of traffic.

Within a few decades, the face of Cleckheaton had changed beyond recognition with the establishment of machine manufacturing.

Unable to take the fortress from Robert de Mowbray, third Earl of Northumberland, William headed south, leaving the prosecution of the siege to others. Mowbray attempted to escape, but was captured.

The Co-operative's elegant range of buildings with a clock tower was another victim of 1960s development in the town. The Society was formed by a group of silk workers in 1864.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

The name of this cottage is a reminder of a very important medieval and late medieval building tradition in this area, possibly associated with the abundance of oak trees in the Bernwood Forest and

We are looking south-eastwards across the centre of the village towards the Springhead home of environmental guru Rolf Gardiner and the hills of Cranborne Chase.

Roman remains are extant at Caldecott, but it is the later thatched and slated farmhouses, and rows of cottages (some with date panels) fronting onto the High Street which present a unified entity

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester, and to the west of the busy A6.

Lyme Regis harbour, or the Cobb, was once a seafaring settlement separate from the old town.