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Skelton Lane leads down through the commercial centre of Brotton.

The T-junction and the church are just ahead. Whalley had an abbey once, and that fact distracts from the importance of the church here.

The chequered brick and weather boarded cottage (right) is Barclays Bank; it opened in 1910 in what was then the front room of a cottage. The bank was to stay here until 1999.

It was built mainly in the 12th to the 14th centuries, but exhibits work of every period down to the present day.

St Peter's stands in meadows beside the Usk, to the left of the A40 and just beyond the western outskirts of Abergavenny.

Built in 1704, St Peter's was a very popular church and well attended.

About two miles north of Bletchley, with the Grand Union Canal passing to its west and the River Ouzel to its right, Simpson has a number of old cottages and many new city houses and estates.

In this picture we can see the small stream that runs down from Waddington Fell and the Moorcock Inn as it runs right through the centre of the village to join the Ribble.

They planned that the town would be a little way inland and separate from the dock area.

The dome of the Infirmary is on the left, and Lewis's tower is in the centre.

Like the other areas of Eccles and Salford, Monton likes to keep its own identity.

Then, freight was trans-shipped into small 5-ton tubs with wheels.

She, being in debt, pulled the palace down, turned the park into farmland, and sold the contents and materials for building purposes.

Messrs Parke & White of 45 Broadgate (extreme left) closed in 1958, and the site is now the new and expanded Lincoln City Library. The road is now divided, with crossing places for pedestrians.

Sited on an old cattle market, the Sands Leisure Centre was opened in 1983 to provide much valued modern gym and leisure facilities, as well as acting as a well-used venue for theatre and musical

It was taken down in 1793, and a new Exchange was started in 1806. By 1849 there had been two extensions added, along with a post office and news room.

Because of the famous Pendle witch trials in 1612, the hill has gained a reputation for sorcery and evil deeds.Those who know the area treat these superstitious tales with a pinch of salt,

In many a village, the loss of its transport system and main employer in the course of a couple of years would have sounded its death knell; but for Standon the situation could not have been more different

But most of all, Edwards remembered Clay Hill - West Hill as it is now - where he enjoyed the hospitality of Colonel Dennis O'Kelly, and was taken to view his stables.

Leaving Daventry on the west-bound turnpike to Warwick and Stratford upon Avon we arrive at Staverton village. On the way to Staverton, in a lay-by is one of Telford's toll houses.

A former International Exhibition Hall, and a 'Peoples Palace', the first building was designed by John Johnson and Alfred Meeson, and opened in 1873.

The Chapel abounds with monuments of beauty and dignity. They include the Princess Charlotte Memorial, 1817, by Matthew Cotes Wyatt, which combines the sensational with the chaste.

As one of Carlisle's best known sons, the writer Hunter Davies, observed, 'my memories of Carlisle in 1950s was of a dirty, dreary, noisy, smoky, industrial town'.

It was from here that FitzGerald ruthlessly put down a rebellion in the south-west.