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It can be appreciated from this photograph how the bleak area of beach and pools resulted from the infilling of the bay by silt and sand from the china clay industry; the old cliff line

Another view of the High Street at a less congested point and on a very hot and sunny summer's day: the shopkeepers have lowered their sun-blinds to protect their wares, and the lady on the left has

Burford sits right on the county boundary with Herefordshire - the boundary is defined by the River Teme at this point.

There is another café just outside the village, at Derwen College. This is a college for school leavers with learning difficulties, and catering is one of the subjects taught here.

Showing many similarities in design to Cheswardine Hall (C503010), Hodnet Hall was built in 1870 and is the home of the Heber-Percy family.

This is a view of the building in M32008 taken from the other direction. In the foreground is a pub called the Sandbrooks Vaults.

Two routes are to be seen in the background leading to the beach. To the right, the private steps (now lost) from the Manor Hotel led to their own promenade.

Unlike many Norfolk beaches, which allowed the erection of permanent wooden beach huts, Gorleston offered a few temporary huts for weekly hire and a 'village' of square tents.

After the railway came to Mundesley in 1898, it was anticipated that the village would be as popular as Cromer.

In this later picture, the 'Teal', a comparatively modern large boat, launched in 1936, approaches the steamer pier at Bowness.

Through the trees on the right (although almost completely hidden now) the tower of St Christopher's Church can be seen.

The church on the right is St Peter's - the town church.The tower was completed in 1758.

The Gate, as locals call it, is at Woodgate, by a crossroads in a pleasant rural location between Hanbury and Bromsgrove. The origin of its unusual name is obscure.

Castle Hill was one of Axminster's earliest residential streets, though always mixed with trade. The cottages on the right have survived, although they are much altered.

The Square lies at the north end of the Long Bridge. The building to the right is the red façade of The Athenaeum, built in 1888, which houses the museum and a collection of fossils.

Bore holes were sunk, and during one of these operations salt was struck at a depth of 400 ft.

Amroth is a former coal mining village at the southerly end of the 186 mile-long Pembrokeshire Coast Path.

Bolton Road was the first paved road laid in Port Sunlight, and W H Lever named it after his home town as a reminder of his roots.

At a time when railway engineers were convinced of the impossibility of constructing a rail link over Shap, Fleetwood was conceived in the 1830s to link trains from London with steamers to

At the time of this photograph, traffic was not excluded from this street. A delivery van stands beside the Olde Pork Pie Shoppe of Dickinson and Morris.

One of the outstanding buildings in the area, Marske Hall was built in 1625 for Sir William Pennyman, whose descendants later settled at Ormesby Hall.

We tend to think that castles arrived in Britain with the Norman conquerors, but, in fact, they were already in existence.

The regimental colours are those of the Green Howards, whose chapel is here. The Victorian reredos has been replaced by one designed as a Second World War memorial.

This scene of the parish church of St Peter at Addingham, standing in its walled churchyard on the village green and reached by a stone bridge over the beck, has not changed substantially since this photograph