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A cart horse of Dickens & Co, brewers and wine and spirits merchants, waits patiently between trips. Lighter loads were taken around town by handcart.

650 years of shipbuilding on the Wear came to an end with the closure of North East Shipbuilder's Southwick yard in 1989.

It was the opening of James Nasmyth's engineering works that led to the growth of Eccles and Patricroft.

Dedicated to the local saint, and often called 'the Cathedral of the Weald', it was built of local yellow sandstone in the mid 15th century, and was restored during the 19th century.

At this major junction of Cheam Road, Carshalton Road and the steep High Street, the splendid and ornate sign of the Cock Hotel with the Courage Brewery rooster mounted above sits in the centre.

Eastbourne owes its development to the 7th Duke of Devonshire: after the railway arrived in 1849, he enthusiastically developed his estates here into a huge resort, with nearly three miles of seafront

The provision of the public gardens of the Promenade at Bowness also followed the coming of the railway in 1847, and the increased popularity of the Lake District as a health-giving holiday resort for

The wooded estate of Mount Edgecumbe is the hereditary seat of the Earls of Mount Edgecumbe.

This view of the overhanging, topmost rocks of the Black Rocks shows some of the many examples of graffiti, some of which is Victorian, which deface the gritstone boulders in the foreground

The forbidding shape of Dartmoor rises in the background of this view of the Great Western Railway viaduct over the River Erme.

Grindleford's war memorial (left) at the foot of Sir William Hill in the upper part of the village is based on the design of Eyam's Saxon preaching cross, and so it repeats the strange truncated appearance

The abbey is set at the end of a narrow, winding lane a mile out of Richmond, and sits comfortably in the peaceful valley of the River Swale.

Since it was gradually absorbed to become a suburb of Royal Tunbridge Wells, this small village south of Tonbridge supported a number of businesses in its commercial centre.

Behind the thatched building are some of the fine trees of the park. The north-east quarter of Overstone Park is heavily wooded.

Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and

Haddenham was one of the chief breeding areas for the Aylesbury duck; its network of streams and ponds was of immense value to this industry, even if the village was famously foul-smellling in a hot summer

The construction of Flint Castle began within days of the signing of the treaty of Rhuddlan; it was the first of the Edwardian fortresses built to impose a new order upon Wales.

On the west side of the High Street stands the impressive frontage of Worcester's Guildhall.

This photograph of the lovely interior of the church gives a good indication of how the former decay in the fabric of the church described in 1779 by Thomas Beaufort as “a large, old, ugly wretched church

The Georgian style was dominant in the architecture of many of Calne's buildings, from town houses and hotels to smaller cottages.

The Victorians, who were fond of such comparisons, compared the locality of Sandown to the Bay of Naples.

The attractive old streets of St Peters are still one of the most delightful aspects of Broadstairs.

Sailing barges are tied up in the Wet Dock, the non-tidal part of the port of Ipswich.

Colwell Bay, just west of Yarmouth, has a good mile of sand sheltered by the low cliffs behind.