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The Mersey ferries are world-famous, even without a boost from pop music, and no printed coverage of the city would be complete unless homage was paid to these links with the Wirral Peninsula.

Madingley Hall was the home of Colonel Harding - in 1909 he was carrying out an extensive restoration programme.

Twice a year, in April and September, people come from all over to watch the Severn Bore, a wave varying in size from nothing more than a ripple to a wall of water several feet high.

The full tide brings its own burst of activity, as small passenger boats in an orderly seamanlike manner position themselves to approach the slipway.

This is a small hilltop village about a mile to the south east of expanding Fleckney.

We are at the top of the street seen in photograph No 71178. The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow.

Here we see one of the ornate gateways that gave entrance to the inner square of the building for deliveries. There were cellars for rent, and Manchester businesses could store goods in them.

The bank on the left has its long frontage to St Paul's Square, and is now a Ladbroke's betting shop.

This little group of cottages belonging to the fishermen whose boats are lined up on the foreshore, grew up around the declivity where the local stream, the Wynreford, after passing through

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 Star Inn still looks out towards the wonderful, elegant stone cross on its seven step base.

Here is a typical market day in Wisbech, at the beginning of the 20th century. In the distance can be seen Racey's Arcade Stalls.

The tailor's shop to the left was shortly taken over by Fells, Cycle & Wireless dealers (see W115023 on page 38-39), who also had premises in Norfolk Street, and until recently was Belfast's linen store

This view from the middle of the Market Place is not much altered since 1922. The view towards the Royal Hotel and Lloyds Bank is almost unchanged.

It is appropriate that our east to west town tour should start in the cathedral city of Chichester, the county town of West Sussex and one with a very long history.

It was the seat of the De Braoses, with a mighty stone castle; but its keep of about 1100 is now merely a fragment, for the market and town migrated to nearby Steyning when the Adur silted up.

The view was taken from the tower in the time of Rev Eldon Surtees Bankes, the rector since 1854.

'Ferry No.1', dating back to the inauguration of the service in 1926, was supplemented by postwar 'Ferry No.2' in the 1920s.

A hundred years or so before this picture was taken Park Street was already a street of shops.

Church Street was never as busy or popular as Market Street. In Church Street stands the building (now the Conservative Club) where Bonnie Prince Charlie stayed twice in 1745.

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

Much in the middle distance has been rebuilt, but most of the nearer buildings survive.

Frith's photographer is looking from the middle of the green towards Wharf Road, with the through road crossing the centre of the view.

By the river, a road leads off Walton Lane under the bridge towards Walton Marina.