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

Another glimpse of the region's industrial heritage. Note the extensive mine-workings and the railway trucks in the foreground.

A view showing, on the right, the approach road into Staithes, again illustrating the picturesque nature of the buildings.

The population by this date was in excess of 22,000. Market day was held on Saturdays, and half day closing was on Wednesdays.

This tumbledown cottage shows the reality of cottage life in the 19th century, far removed from the romantic restorations that we see today.

The granite stone of Bodmin Moor supports a natural oddity, the impressive outcrop known as the Cheesewring (another name for a cheese press).

Andover people can be justly proud of their church.

An old family from Saint Omer were lords of this village. Under Henry VII it was given to the Hobarts for several generations.

The name is said to originate from the mustering of troops during the English Civil War in the 17th century, but it could equally originate from a much earlier 13th-century charter allowing animals

During the 18th century the house was the home of the wealthy Wilberforce family. It was here in 1759 that the great emancipator William Wilberforce was born.

The village of St Boswells borders the main road from Jedburgh to Edinburgh. The 5th Duke of Buccleuch was just a boy when inherited his title in 1819.

Many of the Manchester Ship Canal workers settled here, where there was plenty of work to be had in the ever-spreading town.

East of Market Deeping and joined to it is Deeping St James village. At its heart is this curious structure in medieval stone.

Most of the rest of those buildings are in the main still there, but they do not look as impressive as they did in 1955.

The Great Eastern Railway Company developed the quayside, and freight trains rolled under the high platform of the tall granary warehouse to receive produce.

Sited on the Haywards Road junction, the white building on the extreme right is Lloyds Bank; this building was later demolished, but Lloyds are still on the same site.

George Hilton`s business (extreme left) had expanded across the road to the newly built brick building on the right of the photograph.

A group of young men of fashion are keen to show off their new suits to the photographer outside Burton's store.

This photograph looks northwards up the High Street to Donkey Lane and the 17th-century thatched Dormouse Cottage on the corner (centre).

In addition to the Wednesday market, a Saturday market was established on 2 January 1904; it was opened by the Chairman of the Uttoxeter Urban Council, Mr A C Bunting, Esq, JP, CC.

The shops sit cheek by jowl on one side of the street, whilst the other is fringed with pollarded limes and chestnuts.

Now the campus of Middlesex University, the whole has taken on a care-worn air, which even extends to the early 18th-century garden statues by John van Nost, which were brought to the house by Sir Philip

Most of the rest of those buildings are in the main still there, but they do not look as impressive as they did in 1955.

For those who made the short sail out from Belfast, the charms of this piece of coast were obvious: a bay lined with low, craggy rocks and sands providing picturesque bathing pools.