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This public park, with its neatly-trimmed shrubs and bushes, occupies the former site of the vineyard of the Benedictine monastery founded in 1082 by Bishop Gundulf.

The Midland Railway line between Newark and Lincoln skirted the northern edge of the village.

This ancient fortress has served as arsenal, prison and royal residence, and is comprised of an irregular mass of buildings erected at various periods down the centuries.

Built in 1823 to accommodate five-ton tub boats, it featured hydraulic inclined planes instead of locks for negotiating changes in level.

This picturesque cobbled square is in the centre of Hawkshead. An upended cart awaits its horse, while a little girl gazes across the empty square in anticipation.

Little remains of Robert de Turbeville's early 12th-century motte and bailey castle. Its stone successor was built in 1272 by Sir Grimbauld Pauncefote.

Note, too, the pair of spectacles hanging from the shop on the right; these were the premises of Morton's opticians.

Just downstream of Carr Wood waterfall is this smaller weir, whose race carried water via a flagstone channel under fields to the left to the Ashworth Estate corn mill.

With the removal of both the main shopping and administrative areas of Runcorn some miles away these photographs show a town that, in the last 40 years, has changed enormously.

This charming village straddles the banks of the River Bure amidst beautiful marshland.

Until the beginning of the 19th century the only crossing of the Hamble was by ferry.The first structure was a toll bridge; today the river is spanned by various busy roads and a motorway—a far

Until the beginning of the 19th century the only crossing of the Hamble was by ferry.The first structure was a toll bridge; today the river is spanned by various busy roads and a motorway—a far

At the time of this picture, Broadstairs was 'especially in high favour with family parties who find quite a little paradise in its sheltered beach'.

Mini cars appear to be flavour of the month with the drivers of Brierley Hill.When introduced in 1959 the Mini was radical in its design.

Long before the holiday boat industry took off, a trip behind a horse-drawn boat in Llangollen was a popular outing.

The zoo opened at the north end of Regent's Park in 1828, and two years later the Royal Menagerie was added, to be joined by the animals which had formerly been kept at the Tower of London.

The fitst Tate Gallery containing British art opened in Jubiliee Year 1897 on the site of a prison known as the Millbank Penitentiary.

Lansdowne House, the elegant building on the left, was home to local doctors for about 100 years. Jane Austen came with Miss Beckford of Chawton House to visit Dr Newnham here in 1811.

Husseys Farm itself can just be seen in the distance on the left.

Gone from here are the men, horses, buildings and stables of the Royal Dragoon Guards.The site is now the Divisional Headquarters of the North Yorkshire Police.

Boar Lane bissects Briggate and runs along the southern edge of the commercial heart of the city between Kirkgate and Park Row.

The bank on the right was Simonds Bank, opposite Princess Street, now called Princess Way.

To the left of the man coming up the road is the building which was the town's first station, but it could not handle through traffic following the opening of the Ulverston and Lancaster

Following the Reformation, it ended up in the hands of a local squire. Later, it was owned by the Braddyll family, who did much reconstruction work before going bankrupt.