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The Urban District of King’s Norton and Northfield had a population in excess of 78,000 and covered 22,000 acres.The plans would give Birmingham a population of 850,000, making it the second

Conceived and built by John Nash in 1813, this famous thoroughfare has been said to represent ‘the highest beauty of street architecture.’

Further down the Thames are the Houses of Parliament - or rather, the Palace of Westminster.

The hunt assembling at the front of the Bugle pub, a former coaching inn.

A pair of loaded working boats on the Aylesbury Arm near Broughton on the edge of town.

This is a much more recent view of this district of Worthing.

Of the fairies, Fferrand wrote: 'amongst the uneducated people in Rochdale the superstition of fairies has not been dispelled, and Shakespeare, Drayton, and other poets, in the exercise of their poetical

The coastline of the Isle of Man is one of outstanding natural beauty.

Frampton, 'the settlement on the Frome', is an attractive downland village north-west of Dorchester.

In the 14th century the nearby village of Malpas was under constant threat of attack from the Welsh, and there was an unsuccessful attempt to have the chapel on the Cholmondeley estate raised in status

The great eastern face of Honister Crag dominates the Honister Pass between Borrowdale and Buttermere and Crummock Water, which can be seen in the distance.

Shap Abbey, near the banks of the River Lowther, was founded by the 'white canons' of the Premonstratensian order at the end of the 12th century, but it was dissolved, like so many others, in 1540.

Tilehouse Street, which was named in 1460, incorporates a string of houses dating from the Tudor to the Georgian periods, with many of the earlier buildings refronted with brick and remodelled during

The spacious frontage of the 13th-century hotel, with the Eleanor Cross just visible beyond, was clearly promoting its new services at the start of the motoring age.

The photograph was taken from the centre of the street, showing a banner promoting Hertford's County Hospital, but with many of the same businesses still functioning.

It stood in the dunes near the lighthouse at the northern side of the crossing of the Torridge estuary from Appledore.

He received a lot of opposition to the building from the locals: as well as fearing they might end up with a white elephant on their hands, they were understandably concerned that construction would involve

On the left are two of the well-known hotels of the time, The Imperial and The Westward Ho!

At St Helen's Church the corbelled, pinnacled and crocketed tower stands out in more ways than one: it seems curiously at odds, in size and style, with the rest of the church.

Many of the fishermen's cottages looking towards the harbour were built in three storeys, the ground floor being used for storing and salting their catches of fish.

The bustling twice-weekly market was clearly a popular event at the turn of the century.

The name 'Llandaff' means 'the sacred enclosure on the river Taff', and Llandaff is one of the earliest ecclesiastical foundations in Wales.

One of the older kilns has been reconstructed at the National Folk Museum, St Fagans.

This is one of several short parades of shops along the main road through Penn.