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Designed by architect George Vialls for the Mayor, Thomas Embray Davenport Philpot, the museum in Bridge Street was built in 1901.

In our view we are looking towards the bridge over the burn. The Brown Cow public house is on the right, and the Black Bull Hotel can just be made out further down the road.

The cast iron rustic bridge, built in 1870, has always been a much-photographed spot.

The old village consists of a number of small, picturesque thatched and timber-framed cottages to the west of the church and along a lane running west from the river bridge.

Obviously still viable in these photographs, Southport Pier was closed in the 1990s; it was demolished and rebuilt at a total cost of £7 million, and was reopened in 2002.

This view is looking down from the road bridge; things have changed greatly at Sandy.

This prominent rock formation stands high up on the St Ives estate over the river; before the age of the car it was holiday treat to walk up here for the exercise and fresh air.

This brief tour ignores the Georgian houses of High Pavement, the castle and the famous Lace Market area to descend to the River Trent.

Moving west from Godalming, the route passes through Elstead, a village with a medieval bridge over the River Wey and this triangular village green.

Behind are High Hall and the Temperance Hall (1910). The Quaker Meeting House came in 1836, and next is Summerfield House, formerly an inn.

We are looking eastwards into the Welsh mountains along the high street from the railway bridge.

The River Thames curves eastward north of the village and then converges towards Church Street, some of whose gardens have a water frontage.

Here we see the Gloucester and Sharpness steam packet office outside Warehouse Number 1 on the left.

Under the magnificent spreading canopy of the Cassiobury Park trees, just beyond the keeper's cottage, the barge horse and his female driver enjoy a brief rest while waiting for the Iron Bridge lock

The landward defences included a moat, a drawbridge and a barbican.

K Block housed the greater part of the marketing and sales functions for the company.

Bridge Street is bustling with Saturday afternoon shoppers. Next to Singleton's the butchers is the Midland Bank's fine facade.

This view looks along Foregate Street; the bridge carrying the Great Western Railway lines to Hereford and South Wales can be seen in the background.

The name 'Finkle' comes from a Viking word meaning 'angle' or 'corner', and this less than straight street has not changed its line since those times.

Heating and cooking was performed on a coal-fired range, whose chimney we can see behind the tiller. On the right, in front of the bridge, there is a lifting winch.

Houghton is a hamlet with a long stone bridge across the tidal River Arun.

Looking eastwards along Church Street from Magnolias, across the River Bride, in a sylvan setting beside a clapper bridge next to the village school.

Nestling on its sandstone ridge in a loop in the Dee, Chester is closely framed on two sides by water.

Here, utilising the course of the River Colne, the canal goes left of the island under the bridge.