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In 1792, a company was formed by Lancaster merchants to build a canal; they saw it as a way of getting cheap coal from Wigan and transporting other goods out into towns in the heart of Lancashire.

Lynn (the King's was added by Charles I in recognition of this town's loyalty to the Royalist cause) lies about 1.5 miles inland, where Lynn Cut meets the Great Ouse.

In 1910 the Borough of Wallasey was formed. This took in the UDCs of Egremont, New Brighton, Leasowe, Poulton, Moreton, Seacombe and Wallasey.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

On the north-east side of the county, Hose is situated close to the Nottinghamshire border in the Vale of Belvoir.

Tregaron is a small nucleated town, probably based on a Welsh maerdref where the lord held court. It grew rapidly during the early 19th century, when it became a popular meeting place for drovers.

The next sequence of views shows the Victorian and later development of Sutton to the south of the railway line.

This is a detail of the chalet zone which sprang up behind the 1897-built Esplanade (right), between the waterworks and the Salt House on Pitfield Marsh (left).

This is a wonderful piece of social history from the 1950s caught on film. Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

The Egremont ferry started in 1835 from a small pier, and was taken over by Wallasey Corporation in 1862.

From the modern, bustling entertainment of Drusilla's Zoo Park we finish this chapter in Wilmington, on the east side of the Cuckmere River.

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway is said to be the world's smallest public railway service.

Henry Milling & Co's family grocers with its familiar Ovaltine sign soon disappeared; Gaskell's Farm Shop stopped selling bacon, and time was running out for John Manners' 'Gents & Boys' clothes shop.

Situated five miles north of Sheffield, the large parish of Ecclesfield was semi-industri- alised by the late 18th century.

Two cars enter the Ewell Road from the main village crossroads watched by a policeman on point duty at the foot of Station Road (later renamed Station Way).

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.

St Katharine was the patron saint of millers, saddlers, wheelwrights and teachers - all trades and professions which appropriately flourished in Ickleford.

George's Hall dominates the left side of our photograph, and the London North Western Hotel the right side.

Skirting the modern shopping centre, our tour reaches Stert Street, which runs south towards the Market Place; in the 1890s, it was one of Abingdon's main shopping streets.

This impressive flight of sixteen locks, regarded as the finest in Britain, is also known as 'the Staircase'. This photograph was taken from Marsh Lane in Rowde.

The 15th-century building in the foreground has had a variety of uses, including that of a public house named The Cricketers which ran from the mid 19th century until its closure in 1909.

On the left bank is the single track Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway, which opened as a broad gauge line in April 1867 and was worked by the Bristol & Exeter Railway.

Market Street was notorious for traffic congestion even in the 1880s.

Dragwell, adjacent to A R Tarlton's chemist's shop (left), runs between Derby Road and Nottingham Road on the north side of the church, which stands prominently above the River Soar.