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These two extravagant arches were later built using stones from the abbey ruins, but were too narrow to accommodate modern traffic.

A niche above the gateway once held a figure of the Virgin Mary and below, much worn by the passage of time, is carved a lion's head.

It required 49 arches to carry the track across the wide Calder Valley, the highest of which are 70 feet above the river.

Both town and castle were put to the torch; the damage to the former was such that when reconstruction started much of the town was built outside the old walls.

This street scene is much altered from that of the 1906 photograph.

The little girl, strapped in for safety and concentrating on hanging on, looks much more Victorian than post-war, and should be in the Lifeboat Day Parade.

It is an ideal centre for exploring the Isle of Purbeck, and there is much of interest within the village boundary.

This was part of Thomas Baldwin's ambitious new town between the river and Bathwick of the 1790s, much of which was never built.

Inland, Ingoldmells is very much kiss-me-quick hat country, with vast caravan parks, amusement arcades and a fun fair whose piece de resistance is the Volcano.

Begun as a manor house, Bishop Auckland was castellated around 1300, though much of the building shown here dates from the extensive alterations carried out in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The parish church interior enshrines much of Warrington's history through its memorials.

Road traffic was much lighter in the 1950s, but even then Sankey Street represented a major bottleneck on the main A57 Liverpool to Manchester Road.

Viewed from the west, the facade of the west front is dominated by the Great West Window and the Triple Arch Door. The west front of many cathedrals were intended to be showpieces.

"The Countrey, especiallye of late years, is fallen much to trade to sea, and a great part of the Countrye people are seamen and maryners ... many of them continually abroade at sea"

Looking towards the Castle at the end of the street, note the agricultural implements on sale on the left, the Lion Hotel further down the street, and on the right-hand side the arched

Much further south along the High Street is St Mary's Guildhall at the junction with Sibthorp Street.

The arch led to the rear of the Angel Hotel yard, owned at that time by John Jasper Taylor, who also had a temperance hotel, Deanery House, further down Church Street.

Four years after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act, the much larger Guildford Workhouse opened, doing away with this smaller poorhouse.

In 1924, after engineering reports of a dangerous weakening of one of the main arches, the old bridge was closed to traffic.Work on the new Waterloo Bridge was started in 1937.

Chester sits on a sandstone spur north of the Dee, which winds past the ancient castle, begun in 1069, but now much modified by late 18th-century additions.

This scene remains much the same today. Note the free-range geese. In the distance is the small stone tower above Abereiddy that overlooks the popular Blue Lagoon.

Much has changed since this view was captured, not least the fashions. The man to the right is wearing what was known as a demob suit: after military service, you were allowed a new suit.

The building is now much altered in appearance. Visible amongst the trees is Wellwood (background, centre right). Bardsea once had a pier where pleasure steamers from Fleetwood tied up.

The curtain wall faces the River Usk, with the arched water gate in the centre. Boats could enter the castle this way – there was a small quay to the rear of the tower.