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These days Aberdeen is famous for its association with North Sea oil, but shipbuilding, fishing, papermaking and the quarrying of granite have all played their part in the city's development.

The pressure of road traffic has necessitated a roundabout, although only one Wolseley car can be seen.

Middleham was once a major market town, but it is famous for two things: the training of racehorses, and its castle, home to Richard III.

The foundation of Folkestone's prosperity during the 19th century, these packet boats conveying passengers across the Channel to the coast of France some twenty-six miles away transformed Folkestone

Ealing had been a modest village in Middlesex with a population of 7000 at the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign.

Roads like the one shown here have fared less well.

The celebrated village of Cookham, a mile or so south of Bourne End, is seen here from the boatyard on the Buckinghamshire bank, although curiously until 1992 a strip of about 30 feet along

This pleasant scene, just three-quarters of a mile from Park Square, is a good indication of the rural nature of the town and its economy at the time.

Reflecting the town's original location on that highway beloved of cyclists, the Great North Road, the sign to the rear of the memorial promises 'Cycles Stored and Repaired'.

At the end of Kings Ride we find the Barossa Common.

The pavement, the flowerbed and some of the road represent the location of buildings demolished in 1938 that hid the old school and St John's Hospital buildings from public view.

In Saxon days the name of this place was Wribbenhall. The Normans, impressed with its setting, renamed it Beaulieu, 'the beautiful place'.

Wesley's Cottage, on the north side of the High Street to the west of the Town Hall, where the founding preacher of Methodism stayed on the night of 12-13 October 1774.

The Old Quay Swing Bridge opens by pivoting on the pier on the left hand side of the canal.

Off West Street, behind Sparnham House, was the site of one of Ashburton's two umber mines - the only ones in the country.

All the men in this photograph are wearing suits, so it is no wonder that the Fifty Shilling Tailor did a lot of business, It was the accepted mode of dress, particularly for work.

There have been race meetings in Doncaster since 1600, but it was the St Leger of 1776 that put the town on the racing calendar.

The Village 1908 Of the houses and cottages in this view, only the slate- roofed row with the chimney smoke survives.

Looking south down the wonderful architectural hotch-potch of Trinity Street, with the medieval church of Great St Mary in the distance.

A long-vanished view of Hoveton in the days of the horse and cart, the flaming torch sign for the school approach and the neatly thatched cottage.

Excavations were carried out on the Chapter House in 1902, when the graves of five Abbots, including that of Abbot Sampson, were discovered.

The late 17th-century Town Hall was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, whose father was Dean of Windsor.

The narrow streets of Cowes are typical of many southern English coastal towns, designed for use rather than orna- ment.

Another general view of Matlock Bath, looking up towards the wooded Heights of Abraham on the skyline.