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Designed by John Tweed, the statue was presented to the town of Whitby by Gervase Beckett MP in 1912. It stands on West Cliff.

There was a joke - especially appreciated in a boot and shoe town - that one cycled to save shoe leather.

From the Bridge 1899 A town when the Domesday Book was compiled, and a settled place as far back as the 7th century, Fordwich was a flourishing port on the River Stour for Canterbury when the river was

The battery of six 18-pounders was presented to the town in 1745 by the Duke of Cumberland. Queen's Street is in the middle distance, and the lighthouse to the right.

Much of the greenery has gone and the scene on the right is dominated by Camp Hopson's furniture store as well as several other modern buildings.

The family were woollen merchants, who employed weavers working in their own cottages such as Bentmeadows.

The rebuilding of Nantwich after the fire was so effective that in 1620 the town was described as 'very fair and neat and every street adorned with some special mansions of gentlemen of

The offices have suffered the same fate as the Town Hall - they have become too small for the intended council work with the massive expansion of Swindon.

The Macclesfield Canal passes through the outskirts of Congleton, complete with an elegant iron aqueduct where it crosses Canal Street, and several attractive bridges.

More tall town houses look out to sea over the sea wall. These are known locally as Albion Terrace.

This is a famous town centre view. This clock was originally a project by the Redcar Urban District Council to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902.

Trade is quiet; one hopes the large stall well-stocked with boots and shoes has done better business earlier.

This is now the oldest surviving house in the town.

Paddle steamers arrive and depart from Boscombe's pier during its Edwardian heyday.

Lord Donegall was quite willing, since he had just built the new Belfast Castle on the Antrim side of the town. He

This is the busy main street of the town. Lyndon Sims' well-advertised record shop (note the HMV banner, left) is now a beautician's.

As we pass beneath the bridge, still on the Egham bank, the 18th-century Swan Hotel on the right now also occupies the boathouse and garage in front of it, behind the ladies with their parasols.

This village was anciently known as Eightham, and was once a market town, with a Whit-Wednesday fair called Cockscomb Fair.

Here, shoppers were offered an impressive choice of produce right in the centre of the city, just opposite the tram and trolleybus stops outside the town hall.

The town of Wadebridge falls within the parish of St Breock, but the church lies in a quiet valley nearly a mile away.

Promenading in the afternoon, these late Victorians are out to see - and to be seen. A group of London businessmen founded the town in 1837.

On the left is Bognor's pier, one of the town's more familiar features. Constructed in 1865, the structure later became something of a liability and had to be rebuilt in 1910.

In this view the trees are more mature and obscure the long facades of this eleven hundred foot long road.

The Orange Tea Rooms (we can see the projecting sign) is now a florist, and the slate-hung shop on the right, in this picture Miss Whitford's, selling pots and pans, china, paraffin and other useful items