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The halfpenny toll on the original Blackfriars Bridge caused riots, and in 1780 angry protesters burned down the toll-house.After a succession of expensive repairs a replacement was suggested, and

The towering chapel of this school dominates the landscape for miles around; its position is wonderful, high above where the South Downs are cut deep by the Adur valley on its way to the sea.

It replaced a Norman church that had become run down and semi-derelict. Rather than repair it, the decision was taken to rebuild.

Owned by British Railways, a steam engine is shown hauling a goods train north on the east coast main line.

The Swan Inn can be seen down the road beyond the horse-drawn vehicles that are waiting for the photographer.

Here we see unsaddled horses being led down the street. Could they be going to a Tattersalls sale?

Barges plied up and down the Wharfe delivering to the breweries, including John Smith's at Tadcaster, pictured here.

The town grew up at the gates of the abbey on a low island amid the surrounding marshes, receiving its charter in 1142.

The landlords of the Bridgend Inn, the rear of which is on the left, were George and Betty Dobson, and the busy boat hire business operating from the hut further down the towpath was owned by a Mr

The church was once home to what must have been one of the earliest lending libraries in England: in 1492 Geoffrey Downes lent his books to the church, with specific intstructions that gentlemen should

It eventually burnt down in a spectacular blaze on 16 May 1985 which took 11 fire crews to extinguish. The site is now occupied by flats, built in 1988.

Jack Rattenbury, the 'Rob Roy of the West', was born at Beer in 1778 and experienced a series of adventures at sea before settling down to a life of smuggling along this wild and lonely

Tideford is at the very head of the tidal creek of the River Tiddy; this lane leads down to the water, with the woodlands of the St Germans estate on the far side.

above the village, it affords panoramic views with the erosion caused by rivers and frost action during the Ice Ages evident in the isolation of the three peaks of Downham Hill, Cam Peak and Cam Long Down

A family walk down Magazine Lane Slipway onto the beach. This is close to the site of the magazines: ships entering the Mersey had to deposit any gunpowder there during their stay in port.

Wye sits beneath the chalk hills of the North Downs; it has a 12th-century church, beautiful Georgian buildings and a college founded in the 1400s by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Hall burnt down in 1914, and the estate was sold in 1915. The drive now gives access to areas of housing.

The next building down had been Goymour's the butchers until 1950. Beyond the splash is the timbered Bell Inn, and above it is Stay Barn.

The largest seaside town in West Sussex, Worthing began to grow as a fashionable resort towards the end of the 18th century.

The dawning of the railway age helped in no small way to put Burgess Hill on the map, and the Railway Hotel can be seen on the right in this picture.

As we look south down Ironmonger Street, the view is terminated by St Michael's Church, now gruesomely converted into shops, but I suppose in some way 'saved' from physical if not spiritual destruction

Halfway down on the left, an ironstone wall retains two mullioned windows from a former cottage. Because it was thought to add character to the village, it was saved from demolition.

This view was taken further down the shopping precinct. In the distance are high-rise flats.

Mappin and Webb's corner premises, together with the section of Queen Victoria Street down to Cannon Street, were completed in 1869.