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The elegant Abbey Crescent was built in 1858 in anticipation of the opening of the nearby railway station the following year.

Walking is one of the very best ways to explore the delights of the Isle of Wight.

An excellent view of the gable end of this church showing the 13th century lancet windows and above them the roof-line of the original nave.

A fine prospect of Caterham, taken looking west from the steep scarp slope of the north downs above Crescent Road.

Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.

Until recently, when Torbay succumbed to urban sprawl, the green fields of Devon did come almost to the heart of the town.

Owned by the Duke of Norfolk, the 52 acres of Norfolk Park had been open to the citizens of Sheffield since 1841.

The show of horses and horned cattle was exceedingly great. Cattle sold quick and at liberal prices.

This is St Mary's Parish Church, seen from the north-west, showing the two bays of the nave and aisles extended in 1860 (right).

Sited away from the city centre in the last remaining enclave of 18th-century and earlier buildings, the Cathedral with its fine broach spire of 1862 would hardly wring an awed gasp from even the most

Rothley lies some five miles to the north of Leicester and to the west of the busy A6.

Not visible in this photograph, but well worth walking to see at the west end of the street, is St Stephen's church, a large and handsome building which was founded before the Norman Conquest.

At the height of the great slate trade of the 19th century, slate was shipped out from Porthmadog harbour, and the town grew steadily because of this.

On the western edge of the North York Moors, Osmotherly was a centre for milling, weaving and clog making, and it grew considerably in the hundred years from 1750.

East of the village, the Shelford Road climbs on to the red sandstone hills, which are undercut by the River Trent to form river cliffs.

Lickey village is an unremarkable sort of place, but the name is famous among railway buffs because the two-mile Lickey Incline (between Bromsgrove and Barnt Green) is, almost incredibly, the steepest

The Causeway development, carried out between 1955 and 1957, created a parade of shops, flats and dwellings on the site of Causeway House, which was finally demolished in 1957.

Begun in the mid 1830s, Walton Hall was to be both the family home and the country estate of Gilbert Greenall, a wealthy local brewer and prominent businessman.

Hancock & Wood and Roberts shoe shop are almost all that remain of this 1950s scene.

During the inter-war years the council tried to alleviate the high rate of unemployment and set up a number of public works schemes.

It is notable for its collection of grotesque gargoyles, and for two carved capitals which are derived from the stories of Reynard the Fox; appropriate in Cottesmore country.

The ferry originated for the use of monks from the priory, to cross to their farmland on the west bank.

This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film. Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

A real mixture of shipping make up this photograph of Weston Point Docks.