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Work began on the canal in 1887, and at its peak 97 steam excavators, 174 locomotives, 6,300 trucks, 194 cranes, 212 steam pumps, 59 pile engines, 196 horses and 16,000 navvies were involved.

Moving on to the far north-east corner of the county, we reach Misterton.

Seen from the north-west bank of the River Trent, the castle appears foreshortened; but the wall in this view is that half of the east curtain wall that survived the 1650s demolition, with the gatehouse

Here, shopping expedition completed, mother and son walk down Horsemarket Street, passing Sterlings shoe shop on the corner of Lyme Street (right.)

Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.

Weston-super-Mare sits at the edge of the Bristol Channel, opposite the nature reserve island of Steepholm.

After the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham in south-east London, where it was filled with lavish displays.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

It is distinguished by its fine tower and spire, which is based on the 'crown' of the medieval St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. The spire is carried on four converging flying buttresses.

It was constructed in about 1854, the dream of an eccentric army Colonel, Robert Smith, a very skilled architect, artist and engineer, who had a long association with India.

Although much restored in the 19th century, and its spire rebuilt in 1785, it is pleasing if not quite spectacular.

This was given by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), who donated part of his American fortune to building libraries in the United Kingdom in memory of what he had learnt in his Scottish youth

Two phases of Victorian expansion are shown here in this view along the Brighton Road heading south-east from the town.

This view looks north-east along the A283 past its junction with Church Lane on the right in front of White Horse Cottage, whose chimney stack is here covered in creeper.

1955 was the first year that home sales of UK manufactured cars exceeded the 500,000 mark; imports also more than doubled to over 11,000 vehicles.

With a plan based on its Roman predecessor, Noviomagus, this fine walled city is divided into quarters by North, South, East and West Streets, which all meet at the splendid Market Cross in the centre

The cliffs rise to about 70ft, and are the seaward end of the chalk ridge which stretches right across Norfolk.

The market was established in 1279 with a charter granted by Edward I, but Newtown's growth is due mainly to the application of technology to the cottage-based woollen industry.

Modes of travel have progressed from the time when local workers walked to their workplace, and when wealthy people used horse-drawn carriages and stagecoaches for local and trunk travel.

The last occupant of Thornes House was the Morley MP, Charles Milnes Gaskell.

This fine photograph of Malmesbury Abbey was taken from the north, with the abbey mill buildings below.

Newent is best enjoyed on foot. With such an assortment of architectural styles in the town centre, there is always a building or detail to please the eye.

This lovely building is at the southern end of the High Street, in the former market place where the High Street meets Worcester Road and St John`s Street.

The Old Rose and Crown is near the bottom of Rose Hill, a former Roman road which later formed part of the Birmingham- Bristol road; it became a toll road in 1726.