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Eastbourne's pier, designed by Eugenius Birch, opened in 1872. In 1901 - the year of this picture - two grand salons were built midway along the structure.

The ornate clock tower and gateway were added in 1874 to designs by the famous pier designer Eugenius Birch. Both the entrance and the tower were demolished in 1928.

Common oak, silver birch, sweet chestnut and buckthorn, loved by the Brimstone butterfly, abound in Wyre Forest, along with Norway spruce.

At the left is a silver birch, which also survives today.

All four buildings in this view are Victorian: the one on the left, Birch Cottage, is of the 1860s, and the one behind the telephone pole, Jubilee Cottage, is dated 1887, while the others are of about

This view is in the Sherwood Forest Country Park, an area of 450 acres with many of the best surviving ancient oak trees amid silver birch, younger oaks and bracken.

This was by Eugenius Birch, who also designed Brighton's West Pier, and was completed in 1872.

Out to the left is the Vicarage Field shopping mall, while beyond the silver birch is the church hall extension opened in 1985.

There are connections with the Sussex iron industry, for an ironmaster once lived here.The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister.

They camped in the grounds of a house in Church Street called Silver Birches, long since demolished.

The Memorial School, opposite the majestic Middleham Castle (c1180), was erected in memory of Rector James Birch.

The 17th-century house Birch Grove was the home of Harold Macmillan, the former Prime Minister. Ludwell Grange, built in 1540, is a fine half-timbered house.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was given as a private house to Thomas Birch, one of the yeoman of the Crown.

The silver birches (left) have grown considerably over the 19 years between the two photographs.

Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.

Through the Cloisters to the south-west lies the Birching Tower, used until corporal punishment ceased in the 1960s.

This was overcome by the building of an unsatisfactory wooden jetty in 1824, which in turn was replaced between 1853 and 1857 by Birch's iron jetty.

It burned down in 1908, and the front block was rebuilt by Thomas Thurlow, who also designed Walter Birch's factory in Leigh Street.

It could be said that the modern history of Barrow-in-Furness began with the birth of the Furness Railway in 1846, when a line was opened from Kirky and Crooklands to Rampside and Barrow.

In February 1960 the church bells rang throughout the villages of Kent to herald the birth of Prince Andrew.

In 1519 a Bewdley girl gave birth to his illegitimate son, later created Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset. This boy died of consumption when he was aged only 17.

The arch commemorates the birth of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, in 1841. The re-used stones feature the de Vere star, and came from Earl's Colne Priory.

Before the birth of theme parks, a day out in the late 1950s (when comparatively few people owned a car) was by Midland Red bus to Groby Pool, Swithland Woods and Bradgate Park, with the