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Frith's photographer takes us down into the crypt of Holy Trinity church, discovered by an 18th-century gravedigger when the aisle floor collapsed beneath him.

The garlands from the formal opening are still evident in this view, in which visitors admire the pristine stone and brick of the Clock Tower.

How open and uncluttered the view is without the proliferation of modern traffic signs, those gates and tourist directions.

The Pearts' eldest daughter Amelia (17) holds her baby brother, George; the twins take a rather damp seat on the seaweedy rock, and Jennie and Tom watch the photographer put them all in the frame for

Following a bequest by a local surgeon in 1828, the Infirmary was built in Tudor-Gothic style on the historic Greyfriars site.

Over the years it became known as the 'People's Pier', specialising in a vast range of amusement activities. A more genteel pier would not have been so covered in advertisements!

A pavilion was functional in 1905, after the extension of a seaward end bandstand. Lifeboats have been stationed here since 1923, and a new RNLI station was built in 1997-98.

The garden in the foreground is that of a house aptly named Arrow Bank, a beautifully situated house now used for a bed and breakfast business.

A bracing walk along the promenade is part of the holiday at a seaside resort such as Penzance. Long skirts are not best suited to the wind, as we can see from these ladies passing the Queen's Hotel.

This bridge is first recorded as 'Dertebrygg' on the Assize Rolls of 1356; since then it has been enlarged several times as traffic has grown heavier.

Sheep Street, possibly Ship Street or Cheap Street, is shown here a hundred years ago, with most of the houses still intact today.

Before efficient transport links were opened to Ilfracombe, steamers crossed the Severn estuary from South Wales, discharging hundreds of day-trippers into the town.

This lodge was built in 1831 after an outbreak of cholera in the area, so as to protect the officer cadets. Today, the gates are permanently closed, for security reasons.

The sign on the shop wall, where the tickets were sold, shows that admission to the Priory Church was 6d.

H Absalon offered bathing huts, but only for the use of ladies and children.This was where they could discreetly enter the water, hidden from prying eyes.There were other huts for men.

The church houses some interesting artefacts, including what is purported to be a rib from the Dun Cow, said to have been slain by that old-fashioned homicidal maniac, Guy of Warwick; it is, in fact, a

The Knutsford Road swing-bridge lies open to allow the passage of a ship outward-bound from Manchester. In the background is the Latchford railway viaduct, constructed in 1893.

This picturesque cobbled square is in the centre of Hawkshead. An upended cart awaits its horse, while a little girl gazes across the empty square in anticipation.

Beyond is St Mary's, with its superb spire bursting forth from a scrum of pinnacles. Can a city present a more sublime mellow stone townscape?

The ornately designed building is a vivid reminder of the days, long before the television and video age, when every town in the country had a picture house, or 'flea pit' as they were sometimes known.

At the northern end of the Staffs and Worcester Canal, an unusual pleasure boat conversion heads towards Wolverhampton. The narrow section is a solid aqueduct over the river Trent.

It was a unique example of co-operation between canal companies.

John Glasman supplied stained glass for the East Window of York Minster. The earliest slitting mill in the midlands is thought to have opened at Rugeley in 1623.

The Broomfield Road premises - pictured in the year of their completion - were the school's third proper home.