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This picture, showing the 18th-century mill facade, was taken shortly before the construction of a silo block used for storing raw materials for making animal feeds.

A closer look at Bailye's haircutting and shampooing rooms, No 1 Middle Row.

This view was taken from the spire of St Mary's, and what a quiet day it is.

Newly built at the time of this photo, the Victoria Institute combined library, museum and a school of art and science in one building. Today, the school has been replaced by an art gallery.

Close by is Lynch Chapel, a medieval chapel-of-ease to the church at Selworthy.

This monument was erected in 1928 at the site of Monmouth's defeat at the hands of the Royalist army in memory of all those killed during the battle or who subsequently suffered imprisonment, transportation

Nowhere was this effect felt more strongly that at the paper mills, where a severe downturn in the industry caused grave problems.

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the Herbert family prospered in their family home at Raglan Castle. Three members of the family are buried in this chapel in three magnificent alabaster tombs.

t was said by many that 'Dorking lime is undoubtedly one of the finest quality of limestone in the county, if not England', and it was claimed that the chalk burnt into lime at Dorking was sought

In 1149, Baldwin also introduced 26 Augustinian monks to the Priory; Augustinians were cheap since they worked to support themselves.

During their residence in the Square, the quarterjacks were not at all popular with customers at the White Hart, who objected to being woken every fifteen minutes.

Shipbuilders swarm across the Walney bridge from the dockyards at the end of a wortking day. It resembles scene from Lowry. A crane at Vickers dockyard can be seen in the distant background.

This area of the fairground was redeveloped and incorporated into the King's Gardens, which were opened by HM King George V in 1913.

At Hickling, where the Broadland waters fan into expansive shallows, there is a pleasing jumble of red tiled and thatched buildings clustering around the old Pleasure Boat Inn.

Speedwell Cavern, at the foot of the Winnats Pass, is another of Castleton's famous show caves.

Standing in the sylvan setting of Lulworth Park, the parish church of St Andrew's at East Lulworth has an impressive 15th-century tower that predates nearby Lulworth Castle.

Here we have a lovely view of St Mary's, the parish church of Penwortham. The most famous person resting here must be John Horrocks, who founded his great cotton empire at Preston.

1930s and 1960s styles clash openly with the traditional buildings on the left.

Evidently it was a popular place, since a song was published about it in 1918: 'There's good entertainment for man and beast/At this ancient smuggler's nest…' At that time, Benfleet's only public transport

A horse and cart wends its way up a gated minor road through the Coniston Fells.

A landmark on the Bawtry-Thorne road, the Blue Bell Inn stands at the crossroads of the Doncaster-Epworth road in the heart of the low-lying Hatfield Moors, close to the RAF station at Finningley.

The Lodore Hotel, at the southern end of Derwent Water, is a fine Victorian Gothic structure, built at the foot of the twin cascades known as the Lodore Falls, which were very popular in the Victorian

In an earlier conflict John Bowyer, who was baptized at Biddulph in 1623, raised a company of foot for the Parliamentary army, and served with distinction at Hopton Heath.

The town is said to derive its name from 'beau lieu', or beautiful place. At the beginning of the 20th century, Bewdley's population stood at about 2800.