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The heart of the city for 800 years, Briggate leads directly off the Leeds Bridge. A major redevelopment in 1870 brought many new shops and arcades to the thoroughfare.

The view down the street in 1950 is not greatly different from 50 years before, although a car has replaced the pony and trap.

The mill complex was owned by Reuben Rackham, who was a maltster, water and steam miller and a coal merchant.

The school was founded in 1558 in the will of Thomas Alleyne, a priest and Oxford scholar who was born in Uttoxeter.

This view is taken from the railway bridge on Brunel's Great Western Railway line from Paddington to Bristol, opened in 1841.

An unusual view of the Abbey Gateway—in the centre—and the bridge over the Cornmill Stream, a tributary of the River Lea, with people relaxing around the broken walls.

The breweries used the Wharfe to bring in raw materials and transport finished products.

The south bank was a popular location for hiring rowing boats, and the Bedford Rowing Club, founded in 1886, have their boat and club house to the left of the photographer.

The steep Wyle Cop links the English Bridge with the High Street. In this splendid picture we can see a number of half-timbered buildings, including Wyle Cop Store, Dale & Sons, and the Nag's Head.

A view of the southeast side of Bridge Street. While many of the buildings on the right remain, several were pulled down in the 1980s and their sites now form part of a supermarket car park.

Note the sign for Southdown Buses, and a reminder that the last boat sails at 8.45 (left). The island railway opened in the 1860s, crossing to Hayling from Havant over a wooden bridge.

The High Bridge timber-framed buildings had got into a deplorable state by the 20th century, and were extensively restored and rebuilt in 1900 by William Watkins, who also added the three dormer windows

There are several fine Victorian hotels from which visitors can still explore the fine landscape and foaming rivers.

This 14th-century chapel was built on the bridge as a memorial to Richard, Duke of York, who was killed at Wakefield.

We are still in Baskerville, looking in the opposite direction to photograph M13030, with Goose Bridge to the extreme left of the photograph.

Bangor's main street runs between the station and the harbour. It is shown here crowded with shoppers and an early car. The street today has been partly pedestrianised.

Here we see the bridge over the River Greta in the busy little market town of Keswick in the northern Lakes.

This side of the castle was defended by a moat; there was once a drawbridge where the steps and stone bridge appear in this picture.

The currents and eddies in this part of the Menai Strait can be treacherous. HMS 'Conway' was a training ship run by the Mercantile Marine Services to train officer cadets.

The Langdale Pikes are among the Lake District's most popular and recognizable hills.

This view looks from London Bridge Station approach towards St Saviour's Collegiate Church, which eight years later became Southwark Cathedral.

A temporary bridge was erected from a ledge below the Store or Detachment Shelter on the left to Castle Hill, which allowed the passage of building materials and labourers from mainland to

In fact the air quality here was so atrocious there was great concern about its affect on the bridge's iron frame.

Following the burning of Rye in 1377 and of Winchelsea in 1380, Bodiam Castle was built in 1385 because of the imminent threat of invasion by the French.