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It was a popular place for holidays when this picture was taken, even though the village was disfigured by a ruin of an alum works and an iron bridge carrying the LNER railway line from Whitby to Saltburn

The Floral Hall and Theatre complex continue to provide a conference and concert centre of national importance.

This view was taken looking north along Bridge Street towards the Market Place – indeed, in the left centre of the view we can see the cupola and stair tower of the Town Hall.

They lie in a north-south axis on the western edge of the town; they measure as high as 22ft 6in, and are as big as the stones at Stonehenge.

This view looks north along Woodcote Road towards the railway bridge. The station is on the left, but is concealed by the distant shops.

Frith's Victorian photographer was in the lane leading to the abbey gateway, and looking across the Market Place to what is now undoubtedly the finest building in Abingdon: the Town Hall.

The building to the left is K Block; it housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

The bridge across the Ouse at St Ives was built in medieval times.

Car No 118 of the Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co heads for St Augustine's Bridge.

The hotel stands on the north bank of the River Leven, by the bridge.

On the south-east side of the village the five-arch stone bridge, perhaps of the 16th century, steps quietly across the very reedy Rotherby Brook.

Forming a picturesque scene near Askham, the bridge arches over the River Lowther whose waters have their origin in the north-east Lakeland fells above Shap.

The earliest tourists to the Lake District were overwhelmed by the 'horrid' and 'frightful' nature of the mountains and crags, which frowned down on them as they negotiated the passes.

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

Quarrying for limestone and copper brought new people to this quiet agricultural village - mines were still operating in the 1920s. Now Melsonby is a well-kept residential village.

The footpath crosses the river firstly over the weir and then across the Chinese Bridge.

The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

This seems a quiet day, for my childhood memories of passing through Newark are of nose-to-tail crawls and relief on crossing the bridge.

The Macclesfield road rises in the distance to the bridge over the railway line, with the station and livestock market going down on the left.

Further downstream and opposite Hampton Court, Molesey Lock is photographed from Riverbank, the busy A3050 along the Surrey bank of the River Thames.

Children pose near the small bridge over Downham Beck, a brook which runs through the heart of the village.

An earth and timber castle was established here by the Normans in 1110. After several attempts, the Welsh took it in 1165, rebuilt it in stone and held the first Eisteddfod within its walls in 1176.

In Roman and medieval times the castle was on the sea, but this has retreated half a mile away.

In 1965, when Greater London was created, Surrey crossed the River Thames and gained a segment of the former county of Middlesex.