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In the 1950s one of the latter was the weekly venue for the North Cheam Jazz Club, which featured a youthful George Melly and the Mick Mulligan Jazz Band as a regular attraction.

This old manorial village 5 miles north of Sheffield was part of the industrial revolution: it established small craft workshops making nails and parts for the burgeoning factories in Sheffield

The church was restored in the 1860s and boasts wall paintings on the north wall of the nave.

These days Aberdeen is famous for its association with North Sea oil, but shipbuilding, fishing, papermaking and the quarrying of granite have all played their part in the city's development.

In more modern times the town was a major coaching post on the great North Road, and several fine inns survive here.

Here we have the classic view of the west front, lop-sided in appearance since the north-west (left-hand) transept and tower fell in the late Middle Ages.

Situated about 8 miles north of Leicester, by Domesday 'Barhou' was settled. Today, it is the river and the lime works which are the village's most valuable assets.

The house, probably of the 18th century, with its mix of thatch and stone slates, fine gate piers, and a less substantial gate, masks the Boot and Shoe.

The photographer is positioned on the south-east corner of Mill Meadows Island looking north to Boatslide Weir Bridge with its rustic-style balustrades.

A hilltop village on the southern edge of the Worth Forest with distant views of both the North and South Downs. St Leonard's church was built in 1895.

Further north along Gateford Road, near the Gladstone Street turn, the spire of St John the Evangelist's can be seen on the right behind the tall three-storey terrace of 1870s shops.

The smaller tower at the north- east angle of the chancel was erected by these same merchants so that a lantern light could be placed in it for the guidance of their ships into the quay.

We are a little further north than view C105008; we can see the BP petrol pumps of Overton's Garage with the parade of shops beyond the Crossways.

Wesley's Cottage, on the north side of the High Street to the west of the Town Hall, where the founding preacher of Methodism stayed on the night of 12-13 October 1774.

Today, Worcestershire County Museum is housed in the north wing.

From the 12th century, the rearing of sheep for their wool became a major source of revenue for the monastic houses in the north of England.

The gigantic white 'golf balls' of the Fylingdales Early Warning System were a landmark on the eastern side of the North York Moors National Park for many years, before being replaced in the 1990s with

This view, taken in the same year as 41713, looks northwards from beside the north bank of the pond.

Roads like the one shown here have fared less well.

The building on the left with the urns along its parapet (which do not survive) is part of High Street Colonnade, a 1930 development in Adam style built along the north side of the Chapel Arches

Reflecting the town's original location on that highway beloved of cyclists, the Great North Road, the sign to the rear of the memorial promises 'Cycles Stored and Repaired'.

Most of the other buildings depicted here in North Street have also all gone, and no local farmer or carter would now ever contemplate bringing a horse-drawn conveyance into the heart of contemporary

We are looking north down the slope to Station Way, and the bridge which dates from the opening of the railway in 1847.

This stretch of Evesham Road has hardly changed, except for the constant traffic.