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Fortrose stands on the Black Isle overlooking the inner Moray Firth. Its ruined cathedral dates from the reign of David I.

Lyme was granted its Royal Charter by Edward I in 1284, and it has remained popular as a resort.

On the left is the post office, run by Fred Maplesden, who was also printer and publisher of the East Grinstead Household Almanack.

This street was known as the street of warehouses. Only fifty years earlier, this street had been nothing more than a dirt track with some third-rate shops.

Manchester's Royal Jubilee Exhibition at Old Trafford opened on Tuesday, 2 May 1887.

Crowghyll Park was opened to the residents on 31 May 1890 following a civic ceremony led by Mrs Titus Salt.

This street scene is dominated by the façade of Lewis's store, with its broad plate glass windows and imitation rusticated pillars. It must have appeared very modern when it opened in September 1932.

The arrival of the turnpike in 1778, linking Dorchester with Somerset, had a profound effect on this village.

This was the first commercial building completed in the square to accommodate rail travellers.

In 1363 there is a reference to 'Wardeforthebrigge' over the Ant.

This market town is noted for its rare 13th-century lead spire and late Norman nave.

The churchwarden awaits the arrival of the owners of the abbey (who at this date would have been the Stricklands), ready to escort them up to their private gallery in the church; the gallery

This romanticised version of life at the Castle in medieval times can be seen in the Town Hall. It was painted by James Waylen, born in Devizes in 1810, the son of a clothier, Robert Waylen.

This is the shopping parade, with shops to meet the everyday needs of the local inhabitants. As in Eastleigh, the ground floors of houses have been converted.

A smockmill with a weatherboarded tower, boat shaped cap and octagonal brick base, and powered by four patent shuttered sails and winded by a fantail, it was built beside a millpond; a waterwheel was added

Now known as Truro School, the college was founded on the hill overlooking the city 10 years before this photograph was taken, 'affording a thorough English education at a moderate cost' for up to 120

Mardy village in 1955 had far less housing than it does today. The semi-detached houses on the left of this picture were the only buildings at that date.

At the centre of the junction is the fine war memorial cenotaph designed by Gilbert Ledward in October 1921 and unveiled by Lord Treowen, Lord Lieutenant of the county.

At the top of Greenway Road, looking back towards the heart of old Runcorn is the war memorial.

Another view of the London Road reveals the Trafford Arms on the left, an unofficial club for the gardeners who worked in the villas.

It has the characteristic north Cheshire coving under the gable.

Walsingham is built around the ruins of a monastic house, celebrated for its shrine to Our Lady of Walsingham. It is an important place of pilgrimage, second only to Becket's tomb at Canterbury.

Mr Burden's shop and Post Office is the centre of village life. Here we see the local bobby returning to his beat—his cycle is parked under the signpost.

St Peter's 13th-century church was rebuilt in 1870. Brickmaking was quite a large local industry. A common on the Brighton Road has a fine cricket pitch and reed beds.