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The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

In September 1906 the tramway announced record takings for the year of £70,295 and the following year the record was broken again with takings of £73,514.

Tower Bridge has become a virtual symbol of London, and it is certainly a very striking and remarkable structure.

Ospringe was once a pilgrims' stop on the way to Canterbury. The half-timbered house stands on the site of a hospital founded by Henry III in 1234.

A Roman basilica once occupied the site of the Green. The quay is in the foreground, with fishermen sitting around and tending their boats.

Lord Donegall was quite willing, since he had just built the new Belfast Castle on the Antrim side of the town.

The ducks still paddle on the river beside the main road, but the Post Office and Stores (centre) is just a house now.

Back to the east of St Peter's Hill, the photographer looks north along Castlegate, with the Beehive Inn on the left; the leaves hide a beehive set in the tree, which is still there.

At the west end of Lumley Road there were a few shops in 1899, but the view is utterly transformed now from Roman Bank, a reference to the old Roman sea wall.

Workmen in the Square found the skeletons of two men and a woman; both men had been buried with a sword and shield. Archaeologists believed that they were early Christians.

Porritt houses had the reputation of being fine residential properties: Mr Porritt spent a quarter of a million pounds using the best materials, including stone from his quarries in East Lancashire.

Its church disappeared from the cliffs into the ever-encroaching sea in the reign of Richard II. Another was built, and that too was a ruin for a number of years - it has since been restored.

The old stump of this tree known as Merlin's Oak is still kept in the town's civic hall.

The mines were about to close when in 1768 fresh deposits of the copper were discovered.

The paddling pool in front of it is a precursor of the modern day Sun Centre, perhaps. The coats and the empty pool reveal few takers for its delights – it must be a cold day.

The end of the aisle is blocked by the monument of Sir Robert Gardener (d1620), who built the almshouses behind us.

St Margaret's sits halfway between Altrincham and the estate of Dunham Massey (now maintained by the National Trust), hence the title given by Frith's to this photograph.

The buildings are a mixture of 18th- century cottages and 19th-century grander houses which were built on the site of former farmyards.

The late Norman church of St Andrew was greatly altered in the 15th century. To stand in the nave is like being inside a lantern as light floods in through the large Perpendicular windows.

This is one of fifteen towers built with the defensive walls of the town between 1284 and 1396.

People lived and traded on Bond Gate until 1969. Now, together with Bond Street, it is a dispiriting introduction to Nuneaton for those of us who arrive by train.

The triple gables of the early 17th-century house form the centrepiece, with flanking wings. John Ely, a Manchester architect, added the Tudoresque bay window to the right in 1894.

Canford Church is regarded as one of the most interesting in Dorset, both architecturally and historically.

The windmill, which still stands on the summit of Bidston Hill, was built as a flour mill in 1800 and functioned as such until 1875.