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In the niches either side of the central arch of Stonebow are statues of the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary, an Annunciation scene in effect.

However, all this changed with the coming of the railways.

The parade of shops which lined this section of Upper Mulgrave Road on the approach to the entrance to Cheam Station, which is behind the trees on the left, includes on the extreme right a branch of the

Two miles south of Langold, Carlton in Lindrick is a village of two parts, the original village to the south and a large former colliery village with hard red brick semi-detached houses.

Ray Park Avenue was one of the first roads laid out and has some houses of the 1870s.

One of Campbell's White Funnel fleet, probably the 'Britannia', ties up at the pier.

Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed

Here we see one of Formby's older properties, a fine example of the type of cottage that was once common to this part of the coast.

After centuries of starvings, beheadings and executions, the site later became a haven of tranquillity in 19th-century Pontefract.

The old lords of Kingston were the Norman nobles, the Lacys, but this palatial Restoration house was built in 1663-5 for Sir Ralph Bankes, the son of the former attorney general Sir John.

Ripon is one of England's smallest cathedral cities; in 1836 it became the centre of a new bishopric.

The so-called Giant's Grave in the churchyard of St Andrew's is actually a pair of tall Norse-influenced Saxon crosses with two hog-backed grave slabs in between.

In 1842 Port Erin was chosen as the location for a Marine Biological Station; it still exists, though these days it is a part of the University of Liverpool.

Parts of the Lagan Canal were cuts made to bypass wide bends in the river, but most of the route is the river itself, with the tow-path added.

In the 1920s the future looked very bright for Loughborough, but the Depression of the 1930s came as a cruel blow to the town.

The bungalows along Church Road are fairly representative of the kind of housing to be seen in Laindon before the New Town came. Several of them are still there.

This village-like landscape is a reminder of the old centre of Kettering, which clustered around the Manor House and the church. There are now only a few gravestones left in the re-organised area.

Many farmers grew a crop of corn, particularly oats, in the 1950s. Here, the stooks, groups of sheaves of corn standing on end, are ready for collection.

Poorly compacted, and composed of glacial drift, the cliffs of the north Norfolk coast have been compared to 'dirty tallow', being unstable and liable to erosion.

Most of the stone used in the construction of the Minster was carried up this street. The names of streets and alleys are sometimes strange, such as Whipmawhopmagate and Jubbergate.

The 1893 reredos is by Pearson, and the church has a remarkable painting of The Mourning of Christ after Van Dyck, the original of which hangs in the Berlin gallery.

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

This statue of Edward VII and a child was erected by public subscription four years after the King's death.