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Sad to say, this is an archive view, for since 1904 all the dignified Georgian and early Victorian buildings on the right have been replaced as far as the middle distance building with a corniced parapet

This part of the village has not changed: the Ship pub is still there on the right, and the line of little shops still stands on the left, but all with different owners.

This photograph was probably taken from the top of the big wheel, something no longer possible.

This is not a natural rock formation, but one carved out deliberately by the quarrymen extracting building stone, used for the construction of Cheltenham, from this precipitous cliff face.

In medieval times St John's was a cluster of timber-framed houses round the church, and a busy junction on the roads to Malvern, Hereford and Leominster.

There are a few traces left from the early 14th century, but the main parts of the church are Perpendicular, from the second half of the 15th century.

This view shows the backs of buildings along Kempock Street.

In the 1860s, after the demise of the stages, many of its rooms were let out to lodgers.

Hove's genteel grandeur continued to appeal to those who found Brighton somewhat too lively, and the town expanded north into the Downs in tides of suburban housing.

The original market place, as laid out in the Bury St Edmunds' grid pattern devised by Abbot Baldwin in the 11th century, was a good deal larger than it was by the time of this photograph.

The village main street is little changed, although Bel and the Dragon on the right is no longer also a garage.

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal climbs out of Yorkshire into the Pennines.

Here we see a tea garden with a variety of seating, benches and tables - plenty of space is needed for serving coach parties.

There is plenty of daylight from the windows, but note the oil lamps hanging from the timber ceiling; part of the heating arrangement is seen on the left, foreground.

There has probably been a church here for a thousand years, high on the hill overlooking the creek that once flowed from Stonehouse to Pennycomequick.

We see good examples of slate-hung houses; these slates are large, and they have even been used to board up the windows of the disused house on the right.

Designed by Maxwell & Tuke and completed in 1894, the Technical School, Broad Street, was built to fulfil the requirements of the Technical Instruction Act (1890).

When completed, the Victoria Buildings had 31 shops on the ground floor and numerous suites of offices above.

Six of the bells were supplied by Rudhall of Gloucester in 1749, and two further bells were added in 1882.

Half a mile downstream the river passes through Sir Robert Taylor's supremely graceful and beautiful sandstone bridge of the 1770s that still carries the busy A4 London to Bath road.

In the background are the former tram sheds, converted to house Saltaire's complement of trolleybuses.

The Godolphins were prominent in the affairs of Helston until the line died out with the 2nd earl in the late 18th century.

The Norman Gate was built by Abbot Anselm in the first half of the 12th century, providing an entrance gate to the impressive abbey church.

Looking from the B3153, just east of the town, this photograph shows a local train hauled by a steam engine, whilst the cows below, well used to the noise, continue unconcernedly chewing