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The View North-West This thoroughfare was originally lined with workers' cottages, but from about 1865 many of these dwellings were converted into shops.

St Patrick himself is said to have been shipwrecked on the head; years later, monks came from his monastic foundation in Ireland and built this chapel in his memory.

Oh dear, oh dear! Very little of this pleasant scene is still in being. The bus driver told me after he had seen the photograph that 'it's all under Wilkinson's'. And he was correct.

One of the gang-masters of the mining teams was a certain Mr Fison.

This street was the original London to Holyhead turnpike, and along it stood twelve hostelries providing for the passing trade of up to 80 coaches a day.

Co-operative stores sprang up everywhere in places like Bedwas to bring affordable shopping to the valley areas, where they were often the main or only source of groceries and goods.

An excellent small history of the village has recently been published by the Local History Group, which looks in the main at Billesdon's evolution since the 18th-century enclosures.

The dominating mass of Arthur's seat, 822 ft high, stands in a 648-acre park.

The church consisted of a nave, chancel and aisles, with a square embattled tower having pinnacles at the angles.

The Saracens Head Hotel is on the right-hand side of the picture as we look towards the Cross.

Note the many shop awnings and the trams further down the street, a reminder of town centre public transport.

The photographer is being closely observed by the man looking over the railings on the left of the picture.

Erlestoke is on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain, and offers views that can still be recognised from this

Archdeacon Stonehouse built this imposing gateway leading up to the lychgate of St Martin's parish church in the 1840s.

The Franciscans came to Richmond in 1258, and built a small church befitting their commitment to poverty, but this elegant belfry tower was slotted into the crossing of the church between the nave, choir

At the foot of the hill the Old Church and St John the Evangelist share a single churchyard, while remnants of the original mediaeval parish church can be found to the south.

view is looking from Peveril Point to the Clock Tower (centre), showing its original spire, which was replaced by a cupola in 1904 after fundamentalist Christian protests that spires only belong on

The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.

Here we see Grainger Street before work began on electrification of the street tramway.

This small loch is sandwiched between Loch Katrine and Loch Vennachar, seven miles west of Callendar.

Oh dear, oh dear! Very little of this pleasant scene is still in being. The bus driver told me after he had seen the photograph that 'it's all under Wilkinson's'. And he was correct.

Modern golfers benefit from the latest technology: an aerodynamic ball, and well-balanced clubs made from a precise blend of metals.

In 1879 the only development along Vann Road was two chapels: an Ebenezer Chapel built in 1852 just beyond the slate-hung Hazel Cottage, on the right, and a Methodist one, whose roof slope and gable

(Marion Hill) This view, taken from about the same point as ZZZ05124, below, shows the surviving facade of the LNWR's fire station (now a music shop).When it opened in 1911, it was 'very well-equipped