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Seen as a ruin, looking east from the beach of Worbarrow Bay, stone-roofed Sea Cottage was the home of generations of the Miller family.

In the early-1850s, an old soldier lived in Tunstall who, because he was a veteran of Wellington's army at Waterloo, went by the name of 'Waterloo'.

Treorchy is the capital of Rhondda Fawr, and on a historical note, is listed in 1977 as the place in which the female workforce numbered the same as the male - an indication of the locality's well-documented

New Street was the scene of many events. Large crowds gathered along it for the laying of the foundation stone of the Masonic Hall.

The Market Hall, built of red sandstone, dates from the mid 1600s and stands on the site of an earlier hall. The carving between the windows is of a bust of Charles II.

Fowey, the 'Troy Town' popularised by the Victorian writer Quiller Couch, is blessed with a spacious natural harbour, and was once one of the foremost seaports of Britain.

All Saints was built in 1837 on land donated by Sir John Kennaway. Construction cost £3,000 of which £1,500 was given by Rev Joseph Bradney.

Dominant in this photograph of the east end of the High Street is the Town Hall, which at the date of this photograph had just been rebuilt by local architect C E Ponting.

Horbury, three miles south-west of Wakefield, was once one of the busiest railway junctions in the country; hence, perhaps, the absence of any form of traffic in the High Street in this photograph.

Eyam`s parish church of St Lawrence has many memories of the tragic visitation of the plague in 1665-6.

An elegant lamp standard adorns the zebra crossing in front of the Town Hall, and hanging baskets brighten the stonework.

The whitewashed façade of the Rose and Crown Hotel is a landmark on the main road through Wensleydale in the village of Bainbridge, once the 'capital' of Upper Wensleydale, which was known in the 12th

Cliff lifts became a popular solution to the problems of beach access in the later years of the Victorian period, and were used at a number of seaside resorts.

Before the arrival of the railway, Middleton One Row was aptly named; it consisted of just one row of Georgian cottages.

A quarter of a century apart, this and the previous view of the High Street show how little it changed throughout the 20th century, with the exception of traffic problems and an increased number

Aylesford is a knot of twisting streets, clinging to the side of the valley.

Looking to the north-east the course of the Western Cleddau can just be seen at the bottom of the picture beyond what would have been part of the Marychurch Foundry.

The Romans originally laid out the streets of Wareham to match the four points of the compass. The street names of today, North, South, East and West, match this design.

Much of St Mary's church, behind the mill, was used as a private house after the Dissolution; the ivy-covered remains of part of it can be seen here, attached to the right of the church.

Swallowed up by the suburbs of Market Harborough, this little village has managed to salvage some individuality.

Very few parts of the town are far from the beach.

The Town Hall dates back to 1826; the building's Greek Doric style makes it one of Andover's most distinguished landmarks.

When this picture of Pownell Hall was taken, it had been acquired by Henry Boddington, a member of the Manchester brewing family.

The Borrowdale Hotel is in one of the wildest valleys of Lakeland.