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Settle lies on the road between Skipton and Ingleton. On the right is the Elizabethan-style Town Hall, built in 1832, and in the background, somewhat smothered by washing, is the Shambles.

This view shows that the houses are still few and far between, and the village, known as 'the town that never was', remains much the same now.

Notice the factory chimneys and their puff-ball smoky emissions.

Situated on a hill overlooking the town, Christ Church, or the Jesse Haworth Memorial Church, was designed by Lawrence Booth and built in the late 1880s.

The Duke of York is one of Burnley's landmark inns, and gives its name to this part of town. The tip of a spire can be seen just off centre.

The arches around the veranda carry the shields of the Lancashire towns who supported the movement.

This view is one of several in the Frith archive taken from the Town Hall roof. To the left is the Queen's Hotel with its central flag-poled turret.

Rhuddlan is most famous for its castle and its historic association with Edward I. There are remnants of medieval buildings in the town.

A large number of its fine stone buildings now dominate the north part of the town.

The London & Provincial Bank established itself c1883, relocating to a vacant school building on the corner of Stanwell Road c1886. It became Barclays (left) after bank amalgamation of 1919.

Once tree-lined, the pavement edge to the right of the photograph has given itself up to signage and lighting standards.

The old Infirmary, designed by John Wing and opened in 1803, fronted Ampthill Road; it was later expanded to be the Bedford General Hospital (South Site).

The town was laid out north and west of the Abbey precincts, with the Market Place at the junction of High, Magdalen, Benedict and North Load Streets.

Bath Street curves away northwards from the Square and its junction with the High Street.

By the 1950s the south front of Gisborough Hall was covered in Boston ivy; it still is today, and looks stunning in the autumn.

Beginning with a series of ditches and bastions known as the Cumberland Lines in 1756, the Royal dockyard defences were extended later in the century.

Many of Chalford's streets are too narrow and steep to allow cars and are best explored on foot, much as the master-weavers of the cloth trade would have known them.

This view is looking towards the town centre, and the boat ('BN3', a Boston-registered boat) is heading out to the Wash and the North Sea.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

This is how a guide to seaside resorts of 1895 described Rhyl: 'Not many years ago there was no town here at all, but merely a few fishermen's huts upon the shore.

The Town House extends from there to the taller tower, built about 1870. The statue is of George, fifth and last Duke of Gordon, as the inscription on the plinth poignantly explains.

The name 'Croston' means 'town with a cross'.

Seaton developed as a resort in the 1850s, and in the years that followed a number of hotels were built to cater for the town's popularity with visitors.

Over 150 years ago, Church Street was the main way out of the town to Chatburn. Dates can be seen on house frontages - one drainpipe bears the date 1757.