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A family group of children enjoy a boating trip on the River Leven at Newby Bridge, at the southern end of Lake Windermere.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully.

This bustling scene offers a microcosm of life a century ago.

A packed steamer is kept firmly alongside the pier as the Master on the bridge plots her progress carefully.

Built in 1870, this was one of the many West Yorkshire institutes to offer working craftsmen the opportunity to study new skills and learn more about the world.

The cobble-edged wide Market Place of Kirkbymoorside, on the edge of the North York Moors, is still the setting for a market every Wednesday, just as it has been since medieval times.

Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester, was involved in the initial construction in the mid 11th century, and it is probable that Serlo, Abbot of Gloucester from 1072, did the strengthening work.

Broad Eye Mill was originally a seven-storey tower mill built of sandstone blocks on the site of a pre-Norman castle; it is sometimes referred to as Castle Hill Mill.

Further up Church Street, these late Victorian terraces of cottages, numbers 12 to 20, adopted the Sussex vernacular style with tile-hung upper floors, bay windows, dormers and tiled roofs.

A guidebook in 1795 described Weobley as having 'a few small streets meanly constructed, without either market or traffic'.

Clifton House occupies the corner of Fox Hollies Road and Olton Boulevard East, and had probably been only recently completed when the photograph was taken.

This view of the parade is taken from the junction with Fox Hollies Road, at the opposite end to photograph No A136028.

Stanway Road was created in the 1930s along with several other roads in the area, and is absolutely typical of the development which took place at that time.

Horses grazing peacefully in a paddock act as a reminder of that rural past, and the Stourbridge Canal and the Staffordshire countryside are just a stone's throw away.

A number of people, on the beach by the bathing machines in the distant back ground, enjoy the mirror-calm water.

The letters BH on the fishing boat indicate Brixham registry.

This is the old Eastleigh Road, and we can see the post office and the telephone kiosk on the left.

A 'temporary' bridge was superimposed on the old stone structure, pending the building of a town bypass, which still has to be constructed.

Stand where this picture was taken, and you can see that the fountain in the middle of the square is no longer there.

The old Northamptonshire Union Bank on the right of the picture is now the Nat West, though fortunately the facade remains intact.

Construction of the American-influenced Blackpool & Fleetwood Tramroad (B&FT) began in July 1897, and by September 1898 the line was fully opened.

At Fairhaven, visitors could take their exercise pulling on the oars of a rowing boat or playing 18 holes on the local golf course.

This view is in the heart of the village, where Green Street meets the High Street at a small green with a 1920s War Memorial cross.

The next two views were taken around the swimming pool north of Overstone Manor.