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This broad open space at the heart of the city is a kaleidoscope of noise and colour on market day.

The 15th-century tower of the church stands on Norman foundations, and houses the tomb of the last abbot of St Augustine's abbey at Canterbury who, at the time of the Dissolution, was given the manor

This section is a tour of the rolling oolitic limestone south-west part of Lincolnshire, until 1974 the County of Kesteven.

On the night of 14 November 1940, German bombs destroyed the ancient cathedral church of St Michael.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

Time stands still in this peaceful view of the village; but on 12 March 1470, the Battle of Loscote Field, one of many during the Wars of the Roses, was fought in the parish.

In the early decades of the 19th century the district of Saddleworth covered 35 square miles and included over 70 hamlets and villages.

Safe bathing brought thousands of early visitors to Shanklin, as we can see from the profusion of bathing huts and tents. Many of the boats in the foreground would have been for hire.

This is an excellent example of an East Anglian round tower.

The plotland development of this part of Basildon stemmed from the agricultural depression of the 1870s. Initially focused on Laindon station, it soon engulfed parts of Langdon Hills and Dunton.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

The Tavistock road leads away from Plymouth to the fringes of Dartmoor, and has always been a busy highway.

The clock was a bequest to the town by William Thomas Sim, a retired local grocer, civic leader and philanthropist, who died in 1917 at the age of seventy-nine.

The first official record of a petition for a navigation light appears in the Parliamentary Papers of the Lords of the Privy Council for Trade, written during the reign of William III and Queen

Gunnerside lies in the heart of Swaledale. The village was once famous for its lead mines, and the remains of many of them still survive in the gills of the surrounding fells.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

Fortrose stands on the Black Isle overlooking the inner Moray Firth. The ruined cathedral dates from the reign of David I.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

The photographer looks across the cricket field towards Steine Road (that name again) with the old town and the dominating church of St Leonard to the left.

When Frith's photographer went to Belfast it was not his intention to record its industries, but he knew he had to take note of the fame of the fabric known world-wide as Irish Linen.

Copper mining in the 18th century brought an influx of workers into this quiet spot just to the east of Scotch Corner on the Roman Watling Street.

Today most of this area is covered by housing, part of the expansion of the town since the mid 1970s. On the left is Tuns Passage.

Sir Robert Peel called it 'one of the finest sites in Europe'.

Castle Hill is part of 365 acres of common land donated for '...the relief of the poor' in the 12th century. There are 20 miles of public rights of way.