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This rather awkward-looking building was built on the site of a previous chapel. It was opened on 23 March 1873, and cost around £5,000.

Situated at the top of Lythe Bank, about four miles from Whitby, this charming 17th-century coaching inn still serves beer and refreshments to the public.

Those beyond went in 1923 for the mock timber-framed monster of Woolworths, itself also now

The canal provided a link between the navigable rivers Trent and Don, and with its opening Thorne went on to enjoy a new lease of life as an inland port.

It was to Port St Mary that the Scottish granite to be used in the construction of Chicken Rock Lighthouse was brought, and where each stone was cut and dressed to size before being taken out to the site

The neo-classical building with four columns was built by George Williams in 1860, and just beyond it is one of the smaller Victorian half-timbered buildings. Note the tram lines.

This yard, complete with children posed on the steps in the centre, led off Stramongate, the main approach to Kendal from the north-east, from Penrith or Appleby.

Now, an architecturally unsympathetic post office occupies the corner of Queen Street/Boutport Street, Clarkes printing works has become Clarkes Hotel and Symons has lost its glorious canopy.

A cricket match on the County Ground is still a familiar site during a summer in Taunton, as it has been since the club was founded in 1875.

Despite some unimaginative modern intrusions, a number of these old Georgian and Victorian buildings may be identified above the present day shop fronts.

On the right is Waterloo Cottage, which until the mid 1970s was the post office and village shop.

Hemmings' shopfront is a collage of mid 1950s consumer wares: for the smoker, there are Woodbines, Player's and Gold Flake; for the reader, Picture Post, Home Notes and the Leader.

Families with small children could always come to one of the many paddling pools in the area.

In the shadow of St Mary`s church, Hotel Mariners on the right was established in 1625. The building to the centre is now without its bay window.

Visitors can still take the waters within, while admiring the fine collection of Regency costumes on display.

The Gynn was a busy junction in the heyday of the tramway system.

The best feature of the town is undoubtedly the parish church with its lofty 13th-century tower. To the right is the George and Dragon pub.

When the railway came to Grange-over-Sands in 1857 it signalled the town's rapid expansion as a seaside resort for visitors from the industrial mill towns of Lancashire.

This lighthouse was built on St Vincent's Pier in 1810, but it was destroyed during a German raid on 17 December 1914. A replacement was erected in 1931.

The only change to this riverscape has been the installation of a fountain in the middle. The cottages in the background face onto Biggin Lane; they have all been demolished.

Hunstanton Pier opened on Easter Sunday 1870 with a length of 830 feet. Paddle-steamers ran across the Wash to Skegness pier a year after the latter structure was built.

Morcombelake, situated on the high road between Lyme Regis and Bridport, is now famous as the home of the Moore's biscuit factory.

This photograph was taken from above the town of Marazion; the view shows clearly how the famous Mount is reached by a causeway at low tide.

Three ladies are out for a genteel stroll, though the one on the left could be about to suggest a visit to the Kardomah Café.