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Carnforth's industries of sand and gravel extraction and iron smelting depended upon the Lancaster Canal and later the railway, when an important junction between the north-south and east-west

The remainder of the building is 1856, designed by Street, including the rather wild spire with enlarged pinnacles, flying buttresses and very large lucarnes.

In 1902 the architect Charles Ashbee brought 100 silversmiths, furniture makers and other craftsmen with their families from London's East End to establish the Guild of Handicraft in Chipping Campden.

Now they are closed, along with most other collieries in the north-east Derbyshire coalfield, the town has reverted to the kind of calm seen in this mid-50s view of the Main Street.

Here, looking east we see the old Wesleyan chapel (1861) to the left, now a guesthouse. Lime Cottage, jutting out near the end of the street, is dated 1904.

As with so many East Devon villages, a tiny stream - the Beer Brook - runs down the main street, first on one side of the road and then on the other.

This earlier photo looks east and gives a better view of the thatched cottage and the large house with the impressive porch. Beyond is a grocer's at the 'Hovis' sign.

This popular public house in Goring Street was formerly known as The Bull's Head; the old sign, which hung over the door for years, was removed by the brewery and transferred to a public house in East

Whitwell stands at the entrance to the Duke of Portland's Welbeck Abbey, and it is in the heart of north-east Derbyshire's former coal mining country.

At the east end of Spilman Street is St Peter's Church, an old building on the highest ground in the older portion of the town. Little is known about this church, including the date of its erection.

A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).

The market town of Bedale is just a few miles to the north-east of Masham.

Sheaf Street did not survive modernisation and the buildings on the right, as far as the Dutch blind over the shop window, were swept away for the modern Foundry Walk shopping arcade.

Along Thames Street, east of the town's medieval river bridge, abbey buildings remain. Note the gabled 13th-century chimney stack to The Chequer.

A Panorama south-eastwards across Allington hamlet and West Allington street to the Rope Works, St Michael`s Works and Priors Mills (middle distance, left).

Chelwood Gate, a hamlet on the western side of Ashdown Forest, lies between East Grinstead and Lewes. Today it is centred on a long main street.

It is situated on the north bank of the Liffey to the east of O'Connell Street, and was heavily damaged in the civil war, although restored a few years later.

The town, now mercifully by-passed, has a remarkably complete High Street, considering the volume of traffic that used to choke it en route to the coast.

To the west the Melton Mowbray road reaches the town centre via Westgate, a wide street seen here looking north-east towards Market Place.

The railway line to Huncoat and Burnley crosses the road here.There was at one time another line down to Rawtenstall, joining what is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing

Both photographs show the view looking east towards the Town Hall; apart from the cobbled street, the main difference is the loss of the Lion Hotel (left) itself a merger in 1866 of the King's Head Inn

Others included The Bell Hotel and The New County in Southgate Street and The Fleece in Westgate Street.

Another of the surrounding parishes into which Bridport borough expanded, Bothenhampton lies to the south-east, with a deep-cut village street which has left a dense cluster of terraces standing on